A Five Year Retrospective on the Partnerships in Employment State Projects, Part II: South Carolina and Utah

Season 5, Episode 5 — 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?…

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…

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Career and Technical Education with Emily Sherwood & Marta Osuna

You’re listening to YES To Employment a podcast series that seeks to improve competitive integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Today, the guest speaker is Sean Roy who talks with Emily Sherwood and Marta Osuna from the Association for Career and Technical Education or Act II about…

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National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Alison Barkoff

This is the first in a series of podcasts in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). TASH’s interim Executive Director, Serena Lowe talks with Alison Barkoff, the Director of Advocacy, Center for Public Representation. They have a wide-ranging discussion of employment policy and programs for people with disabilities, but Alison remains rooted throughout…

Proceed Until Apprehended: WISE’s Innovative Thinking on Supported Employment in the Midst of a Crisis

Proceed Until Apprehended: WISE’s Innovative Thinking on Supported Employment in the Midst of a Crisis

Serena Lowe, TASH’s interim Executive Director, talks with Cesilee Coulson, the Executive Director of WISE, the Washington Initiative for Supported Employment. They have the sort of conversation you might expect from two people with such depth of experience in these issues: high-level, broad-ranging, big ideas. But mostly they talk about the necessity to not letting…

COVID-19: The Economic Crisis and Employment for People with Disabilities

COVID-19: The Economic Crisis and Employment for People with Disabilities

We talk with we talk with Julie Christensen, the Director of Policy and Advocacy at APSE. APSE has recently conducted a major survey of employment service providers about the impact of COVID-19 and its economic consequences for people with disabilities. We talk about the ways the COVID-19 crisis has affected the employment of people with…

What We Can Learn from the Career of  Julie Hocker, Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities

What We Can Learn from the Career of Julie Hocker, Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities

At the TASH conference in December, the YES! Center’s, Dale Verstegen spoke with Julie Hocker, the Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities at the Administration for Community Living at the Department of Health and Human Services. They have a rather personal discussion of Commissioner Hocker’s path to the success she has achieved, the things she…