Kirstin Bradach enjoys the color pink, laughing, making food, and taking photos of her creations. Until last summer, Kirstin worked her entire adult life for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette (GICW) in Portland, OR. GICW is transforming its services to entirely community-based, and is focusing on finding integrated, community jobs for its clients. …
On March 27, 2020, Kentucky’s Partnerships in Employment (PIE) project KentuckyWorks conducted an online seminar titled Supporting Students with Significant Disabilities in Finding Competitive Employment. The seminar highlighted the local level impact of a pilot initiative supported by the YES! Center. It has been well documented that competitive employment outcomes for students and adults with significant disabilities (defined by…
Employment outcomes for students with disabilities lag behind their non-disabled peers. For students with significant disabilities, employment opportunities and outcomes are even worse. Two University of Kentucky led projects at the Human Development Institute (HDI) – KentuckyWorks and the Community Work Transition Program (CWTP) – with technical assistance support from the YES! Center, are partnering to pilot an approach in two Kentucky…
Dale Verstegen talks with Karla Lynch of the King County Department of Community and Human Services and Cesilee Coulson and Chisa O’Quinn from WISE about diversity and inclusion in employment services and how to elicit input from people across cultural barriers.
Hawaii hosted its second annual Reverse Job Fair in conjunction with the National Disability Employment Awareness Month. THE RIGHT TALENT, RIGHT NOW event started with an employer event featuring First Lady of Hawaii Dawn Ige and Lt. Governor Josh Green as guest speakers as well as employers’ testimonial on disability hiring. It was then followed by the Reverse…
Systems change is often considered a subject for professionals and policy makers. YES! To Employment talks with the YES! Center’s Sean Roy about the importance family members to remaking transition and employment systems for people with disabilities. As someone who has spent his career working in youth transition, and as a sibling, Sean brings a…
YES! To Employment talks with Darryl Evans, the Deputy Director of the D.C. Rehabilitation Services Administration, Montrel Tennessee, the Project Manager of D.C. Learners and Earners, the Partnerships in Employment project of the District of Columbia, and Susan Brooks, the Operations Manager at RCM of Washington, Inc. The D.C. Rehabilitation Services Administration and RCM have…
The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen and Laura Owens talk with Kelie Hess and Tricia Jones-Parkin of the Utah Partnerships in Employment project at the Utah State University Center for Persons with Disabilities and Lavinia Gripentrog, a Transition Specialist at Utah State Board of Education, about how they use the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition…
The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen talks with Dale DiLeo about the worrying increase in “non-work” and the importance of real competitive integrated employment.
Beth Myers and Jonathan Rushmore discuss the Taishoff Center and Syracuse University’s InclusiveU university participation program, as well as its employment initiatives, internship program and business partnerships.
This project is supported by grant number 90DNTA0001 from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201
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