A Five Year Retrospective on the Partnerships in Employment State Projects, Part I: the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Massachusetts

Season 5, Episode 4 — 31 August 2021 About this episode The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen, Sean Roy and Laura Owens fan out across the Partnerships in Employment states for a five year retrospective on the PIE state projects. We put four questions to each team: Why did your state apply for a PIE Grant?…

Ohio’s Multi-Agency Employment First Provider Transformation Initiative

Season 5, Episode 2 — 31 August 2021 About this episode Dale Verstegen, state liaison for the YES! Center, talks with Keith Banner, Katie Blumhorst, Stacy Collins, Alex Corwin and Kelly Schuck, part of the team behind Ohio’s multi-agency Employment First Provider Transformation Initiative. They discuss how they have created an integrated approach for transformation…

Reflections on the work of the Youth Employment Solutions (YES) Center

Over the course of the past five years, the Youth Employment Services (YES!) Center has provided high-impact technical assistance with Partnerships in Employment (PIE) state grantees funded by the Administration on Disabilities (AoD) to support systems-change efforts focused on improving competitive, integrated employment (CIE) outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental…