 | A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| A Review of Commonly-Used State Employment Measures in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services
This research brief reviews how to find out about the employment rates of people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Accommodation and Compliance Series
These are guides telling how to support people with disabilities on the job. Each guide is about the needs of people with a certain type of disability. |
| Americans with Disabilites Act and the Emerging Workforce
This book is about how courts have interpreted the Americans with Disabilities Act and the issues that affect employment of people with disabilities.
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| Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities
This report describes how well four demonstrations increased the short-term economic self-sufficiency of people who receive SSI and SSDI. |
| Building New Worlds: for Students with Disabilities in Transition from High School to Adult Life
Building New Worlds describes the transition process that students with disabilities and their allies are creating to assure that they will be active participants in family and community life upon graduation from high school. |
| Career Success of Disabled High-flyers
This book is about people with disabilities who have careers. |
| CARF - Transition from School to Work and Community Services
A road map to building quality services for young people with disabilities as they transition from school to work. |
| Conversion to Integrated Employment
This publication tells about organizations that have closed a segregated program and replaced it with integrated employment (or other activities) for people with disabilities. Available as a monograph (two volumes) or a two-page summary. |
| Costs, Cuts, and Consequences: Charting a New Course for Working-Age People with Disabilities
This report asks how money spent at the Federal and state levels is helping working-age people with disabilities move into good jobs.
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| Employment First Manual
This covers key elements needed to support Employment First programs. It is available to buy both as a book, and as an online presentatio. |
| Employment Issues and Multiple Sclerosis: Second Edition
This book is written for people who have Multiple Sclerosis that have questions about employment and disability issues. |
| GAO 2012 Annual Report: Employment for People with Disabilities
A report about different government programs and how they could be better. Section 30 of the report is about government programs related to employment for people with disabilities. |
| Impact of Federal Policies on an Aging Workforce with Disabilities
A report about how federal policy impacts job opportunities for adults with disabilities in their sixties and late fifties. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and Women With Disabilities
This newsletter discusses why work is important to women with disabilities. There are many different articles, some explain policy and research, others tell the stories of women with disabilities and the work they do. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This newsletter talks about different employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
| Job Success for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
This book is about helping people with disabilities get good jobs. |
| Know Your Rights! Working and the Americans with Disabilites Act
A short guide for consumers about their job rights under ADA |
| Leveraging State Economic Development Resources to Create Job Opportunities for People with Disabilities
A short report on how states can work with Economic Development Agencies to create more jobs for people with disabilities. |
| Life in the Community
A report of a research project. The project focused on daytime services and ways to include people with disabilities in their communities. |
| Need 2 Know: Life in the Community
A brief summary of the findings of the "Life in the Community" project. The project focused on daytime services and ways to include people with disabilities in their communities. |
| New York State Disability & Employment Status Report
This report is about the employment rates of people with disabilities in New York state. |
| PARTnerships
PARTnerships is a chance to earn money for people with disabilities who have problems finding paid employment. |
| Personal Assistance in the Workplace
a manual about Personal Assistance Services in the workplace |
| Red Book on Employment Support
A web-accessible federal publication that provides A - Z information on employment supports for people who receive SSI or Social Security benefits. |
| Report on Employment First Minnesota
Report on Employment First initiative in Minnesota. |
| School to Work Fact Sheet
This fact sheet explains the many options youth have as they make the transition from high school to the adult world.It is available online. |
| Self-Directed Employment
A book of stories from seven people with disabilities who achieved their goals of getting their dream job. |
| StateData: The National Report on Employment Services and Outcomes (2012)
This report explains where people with developmental disabilities work, and the kind of jobs they have. It has information from around the United States, and is updated every year. |
| Still in the Shadows with Their Future Uncertain A Report on Family and Individual Needs for Disability Supports (FINDS), 2011
This report summarizes how people with disabilities are faring in the community. It covers schools, jobs, housing, and support for families. |
| The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle
This book explains many possible reasons why the employment rate for people with disabilities has been declining It also discusses policy implications of this decline. |
| The Road Ahead: Transition to Adult Life for Persons with Disabilities
This resource provides strategies and ideas for improving the adult lives of people with disabilities, from assessment and instructional strategies, to career development, supported living and postsecondary education. |
| Unfinished Business: Making Employment of People with Disabilities a National Priority
This report from the U.S. Senate is on employment and people with disabilities. |
| Using Braided Funding Strategies to Advance Employer Hiring Initiatives that Include People with Disabilities
This report shows how some areas have used multiple sources of funding to help people with disabilities find and keep jobs. |
| Which Medicaid Buy-In Participants Use SSA Work Supports?
A brief report about programs that allow working people disabilities to still receive Medicaid funding. |
| Work Incentive Simplification Pilot (WISP): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Evaluation Design
A report that gives recommendations for evaluating the Work Incentive Simplification Pilot (WISP), a simplification of the Social Security Disability Insurance work incentives. |
| Working While Disabled—How We Can Help
This booklet talks about working while getting money from the Social Security Administration. |
| "Show Me the Money": Flexible Funding for Job Success
This website is intended to help people use flexible funding to find and keep the jobs they want. Flexible funding is one part of self-determination. |
| 2009 Monthly Data Series on the Employment Status of People with a Disability
A website from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has data from a population survey on the employment status of people with a disability in the U.S. |
| A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| ADA AND DISABILITY LAW
This video gives practical, step-by-step guidelines for complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Focus is on interviewing without bias or discrimination, supervision and development of reasonable accommodations.
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| Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities
This report describes how well four demonstrations increased the short-term economic self-sufficiency of people who receive SSI and SSDI. |
| Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Employment and Disability Institute
A program at Cornell that conducts research and provides continuing education and technical assistance on many aspects of disability in the workplace. |
| Disabilities Education Blog
This weblog shares articles, facts and advice. It covers a wide variety of subjects, all related to the needs of children, youth, and adults with disabilities. |
| Disability Scoop articles about unemployment and people with disabilities
These online news articles are about the difficulties people with disabilities are having finding jobs, and asking businesses to help. They were published in March and April of 2011. |
| Disability Section of DiversityInc
A website with many articles about employment and people with disabilities. The articles take on challenging issues like enforcing the ADA and disability stereotypes. |
| EARN (Employer Assistance and Resource Network)
This Center shares ideas with employers on how to recruit, hire and manage people with disabilities. It's website is well organized and has a lot of information |
| Employment First : A vision of Californians with developmental disabilities working in integrated competitive employment
This report talks about the problems people with disabilities in California have in finding good jobs. It also explains what is helping and presents a plan for a better future. |
| Employment First Manual
This covers key elements needed to support Employment First programs. It is available to buy both as a book, and as an online presentatio. |
| Facilitating Competitive Employment for Individuals with Disabilities
This CD features six national experts who talk about employment ideas for people with disabilities. |
| GAO 2012 Annual Report: Employment for People with Disabilities
A report about different government programs and how they could be better. Section 30 of the report is about government programs related to employment for people with disabilities. |
| GAO Report to Congressional Committees: Business Tax Incentives: Incentive to employ workers with disabilities receive limited use and have an uncertain impact
GAO study finds few businesses take advantage of tax incentives to employ persons with disabilities. |
| How to Build Partnerships for Career Exploration: Using Job Shadows to Explore the World of Work
A guide that shows high schools how they can set up job shadowing experiences for their students. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This newsletter talks about different employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
| Institute for Community Inclusion website
A website of the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital,
Harvard |
| Integrated Employment Toolkit
This website has information about helping people with disabilities find jobs in the community that pay well. |
| Life in the Community
A report of a research project. The project focused on daytime services and ways to include people with disabilities in their communities. |
| Minimum Wage Increase
These online articles talk about how the minimum wage increase will affect those with disabilities and DSP's |
| National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) was established to create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures. |
| Oregon DHS Supported Employment Website
This webpage explains how supported employment can help people with disabilities achieve careers and community inclusion. |
| PARTnerships
PARTnerships is a chance to earn money for people with disabilities who have problems finding paid employment. |
| Ready, Willing & Available: A Business Guide to Improving Your Workforce By Hiring People with Disabilities
This booklet helps businesses understand reasons why and how to hire people with disabilities. |
| Segregated & Exploited: The Failure of the Disability Service System to Provide Quality Work
A report from the National Disability Rights Network about the employment of people with disabilities. The report found a total failure of the disability service system to provide quality work for people with disabilities. |
| StateData.info
This website has charts of state, national, and individual disability data for agencies that provide employment supports. |
| States To Get Millions To Boost Disability Employment September 2011
This short article explains how the federal government is helping the states do a better job helping people with disabilities find work. |
| Still in the Shadows with Their Future Uncertain A Report on Family and Individual Needs for Disability Supports (FINDS), 2011
This report summarizes how people with disabilities are faring in the community. It covers schools, jobs, housing, and support for families. |
| Students With Intellectual Disabilities Score Capitol Hill Internships
This news article tells about a program that helps people with disabilities get jobs on Capitol Hill. |
| Survey of Employment of Americans with Disabilities
This is a survey of what businesses think about hiring people who have disabilities. |
| Ten Employment Myths
This video tells employers ten things that are untrue about hiring people with disabilities. |
| The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities. |
| The State Employment Leadership Network
A network of state developmental disability agencies working to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. |
| Work Incentive Simplification Pilot (WISP): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Evaluation Design
A report that gives recommendations for evaluating the Work Incentive Simplification Pilot (WISP), a simplification of the Social Security Disability Insurance work incentives. |
| "Show Me the Money": Flexible Funding for Job Success
This website is intended to help people use flexible funding to find and keep the jobs they want. Flexible funding is one part of self-determination. |
| 2009 Monthly Data Series on the Employment Status of People with a Disability
A website from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has data from a population survey on the employment status of people with a disability in the U.S. |
| A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Transition-Age Youth withwith Disabilities in Relation to SSI Redetermination (Poicy Research Brief)
This Brief explains transition to adulthood through the lens of SSI eligibility. |
| Advancing Integrated Employment Outcomes through Home and Community-Based Waiver Services: Briefing Document on Section 1915(c) Medicaid Waiver Service Definitions
This report makes recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on new service definitions and related issues to promote integrated employment. |
| APSE
This organization focuses on ways to help people with disabilities get community-based jobs and advance in their careers. |
| Building Sustainable Business Partnerships in Supported Employment
The purpose of this two-year training and technical assistance project in Illinois was to train 20-30 professionals from ten supported employment agencies. The intended outcome was 150 new jobs. The actual outcome was more than 200 jobs.
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| CommunityWorks: Microboards, Cooperatives, Direct Funding Projects
Technical assistance in developing, evaluating and 'tuning up' person-centered service structures including microboards, cooperatives and other direct funding initiatives. |
| Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Employment and Disability Institute
A program at Cornell that conducts research and provides continuing education and technical assistance on many aspects of disability in the workplace. |
| Disability Program Navigator Initiative
This fact sheet explains a program that makes it easier for people with disabilities to find jobs. |
| EARN (Employer Assistance and Resource Network)
This Center shares ideas with employers on how to recruit, hire and manage people with disabilities. It's website is well organized and has a lot of information |
| Employment First : A vision of Californians with developmental disabilities working in integrated competitive employment
This report talks about the problems people with disabilities in California have in finding good jobs. It also explains what is helping and presents a plan for a better future. |
| Evaluating Employment Support for People with Disabilities Project
This project is looking at how well U.S. government programs are supporting the employment of people with disabilities. The project is from 2010 to 2015. |
| National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) was established to create opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures. |
| New York State Disability & Employment Status Report
This report is about the employment rates of people with disabilities in New York state. |
| Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
ODEP, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides national leadership to increase employment opportunities for adults and youth with disabilities while striving to eliminate barriers to employment. |
| Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Mentoring programs for youth with disabilities. |
| Proyecto Visión
A bilingual project to connect Latinos with disabilities to employment opportunities. |
| Rehabilitation Renaissance Project
An employment support program in greater Detroit area and throughout Michigan |
| Social Development Partnerships Program-Disability Component and Community Inclusion Initiative of Canada
This Canadian initiative supports full inclusion of people with disabilities. In 2005 over 7.2 million dollars was legislated for this effort. |
| Tennessee Microboard Association
A statewide (Tennessee) initiative developing Microboards and conducting related person-centered planning, training and consultation. |
| The Abilities Fund
This program gives people with disabilities the ideas and help needed to start their own businesses. |
| The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities. |
| The National Technical Assistance and Research Center to Promote Leadership for Increasing Employment and Economic Independence of Adults with Disabilities (NTAR Leadership Center)
A collaboration that seeks to increase the employment opportunities for people with disabilities. |
| The New Ticket to Work Program
This program helps people with disabilities find work, make money, and protect their benefits. Having a "Ticket to Work" means people have choice about where to get help to find the right job. In 2008 the rules were changed to make the program better. |
| The State Employment Leadership Network
A network of state developmental disability agencies working to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. |
| TransCen, Inc.
An organization that studies school to work transition for youth with disabilities. TransCen also provides direct support to youth in its San Fransisco office. It is dedicated to improving educational and employment outcomes for youth with disabilities. |
| USBLN® Annual Conference & Expo
This is an annual conference about disability and business. It helps make it so people with disabilities can be professionals, customers, and businessmen/businesswomen. |
| Vela Microboard Association
A Microboard is formed when a small group of committed family and friends join together with a person with challenges to create a non-profit society. This group addresses the person's planning and support needs in an empowering and customized fashion. |
| Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID)
A program in New York state to help people with disabilities of all ages. It shares information about jobs, education and independent living. |
| Workforce Recruitment Program
This program brings federal agencies together with students who have disabilities and are looking for a summer internship or a permanent job. |
