Tuesday, June 18, 2013

[Mspe] Special Edition - MSPE Awareness Session, June 20, Jackson

The Mississippi Partnerships for Employment (MSPE) project has a vision that all young people, including those with developmental and intellectual disabilities,  have an opportunity for competitive, meaningful employment and productive lives as citizens of Mississippi. The public is welcome to attend an awareness session to review MSPE activities in the state with a focus on Employment First. Employment First is a philosophy/policy which requires all entities that provide services to individuals with disabilities of working age to ensure that competitive employment in integrated settings is always the first priority option considered in providing services. The awareness session, the first of four across the state, will be held on June 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Churchill I and II at the Marriott Jackson at 200 East Amite Street in Jackson.

 

Three additional awareness sessions will be held across the state in July:

·        Greenville - July 9 - William Alexander Percy Memorial Library, 341 Main Street - 5:30–6:30 p.m. 

·        Long Beach - July 16 -  Technology Learning Center on The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus, 730 East Beach Boulevard – 5:30-6:30 p.m.

·        Starkville - July 23 - Greater Starkville Development Partnership offices, 203 East Main Street – 5:30-6:30 p.m.

 

For more information about these awareness sessions, email Dr. Jerry Alliston at jerry.alliston@usm.edu.

 

 

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Monday, June 17, 2013

[Mspe] MSPE Live.WORK.Achieve Listserv - June 2013

Live.WORK.Achieve

A Listserv for the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment

for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Including Intellectual Disabilities Project

 

June 2013

 

Welcome to Live.WORK.Achieve, a monthly e-newsletter targeting anyone interested in and supportive of employment for youth and young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Live.WORK.Achieve is offered through the Institute for Disability Studies in collaboration with the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities and Disability Rights Mississippi and includes resources and information on employment and career development.

 

Inside this edition:

 

1) MSPE Employment First Awareness Session – June 20, Jackson

2) 2013 Mississippi disAbility MegaConference – June 20-21, Jackson

3) EEOC Issues Revised Documents on Rights of Employees with Specific Disabilities

4) iPads Covered by Insurance?

5) New Research Shows "Disability Divide" Between Employee and Employer Perceptions

 

1) MSPE Employment First Awareness Session – June 20, Jackson

 

The Mississippi Partnerships for Employment (MSPE) project has a vision that all young people, including those with developmental and intellectual disabilities have an opportunity for competitive, meaningful employment and productive lives as citizens of Mississippi. The public is welcome to attend an awareness session to review MSPE activities in the state with a focus on Employment First. The awareness session, the first of four across the state, will be held on June 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Churchill I and II at the Marriott Jackson at 200 East Amite Street in Jackson. Employment First is a philosophy/policy which requires all entities that provide services to individuals with disabilities of working age to ensure that competitive employment is integrated settings is always the first priority option considered in providing services. For more information about the awareness session, email Dr. Jerry Alliston at jerry.alliston@usm.edu.

 

2) 2013 Mississippi disAbility MegaConference – June 20-21, Jackson

 

Mark your calendars now for the second annual Mississippi disAbility MegaConference scheduled for June 20-21, at the Marriott Jackson. Keynote speakers are Christine Ha and Serena Lowe. Christine Ha is winner of Season 3 of MasterChef, the first ever contestant who is blind. Ha is the author of an upcoming cookbook. Serena Lowe is senior policy advisor for the Office of Disability Employment at the U.S. Department of Labor. She will address employment trends in her session “Rising to the Occasion—Thinking Big About Employment and Socioeconomic Advancement of Citizens with Disabilities.” Interested in attending? Expect informative breakout session speakers, exhibits of products and services, opportunities for networking plus fun and friends. Family stipends are available. For more information or to register, visit http://msmegaconference.org/.

 

3) EEOC Issues Revised Documents on Rights of Employees with Specific Disabilities

On May 15, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued four revised documents on protections against disability discrimination, explaining how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended, applies to individuals with cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities. The revised documents reflect changes to the definition of disability made by the ADA Amendments Act, which took effect Jan. 1, 2009. Among other things, the act made it easier to conclude individuals with a wide range of impairments, including cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities, are protected by the ADA, the EEOC said. Each revised document answers questions such as: when an employer may obtain medical information from employees and applicants, what types of reasonable accommodations individuals with these particular disabilities might need, how an employer should handle safety concerns, and what an employer should do to prevent and correct disability-based harassment. For more information, visit http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/disability.cfm.

 

4) iPads Covered by Insurance?

 

Parent Dawn Sconfienza Gaita shares strategies she learned through personal experience in requesting insurance assistance to pay for an iPads for her child with special needs. “Five Steps to Getting an iPad Covered by Insurance: a Mom’s Story of Success” is featured in the January/February 2012 issue of Parenting Special Needs magazine. View the magazine online at

http://www.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=97070.

 

5) New Research Shows "Disability Divide" Between Employee and Employer Perceptions

 

Despite some common ground, there are also clear divides between employer and employee perceptions around the likelihood and impact of an income-threatening disability, according to findings released today by the Council for Disability Awareness (CDA). The Disability Divide: Employer Study compares human resource professionals’ answers to employee responses about income-threatening illnesses and injuries, illustrating distinct divides surrounding key disability issues about disabilities. To read the report, visit http://www.disabilitycanhappen.org/research/employer/.

 

 

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Live.WORK.Achieve is sponsored by the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment (MSPE) for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Including Intellectual Disabilities project. MSPE is funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is managed by the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities (MS CDD), Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) and The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS).   

 

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