Live.WORK.Achieve
A Listserv for the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment
for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Including Intellectual Disabilities Project
August 2014
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) Take Your Legislator to Work Day Campaign
2) Article on Walgreens’ Employment Goals for People with Disabilities
3) Rethinking College
4) Call for Nominations: Promising Business Relations Practices
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1) Take Your Legislator to Work Day Campaign
The National Association of People Supporting Employmentfirst (APSE) and APSE state chapters will be conducting a state-led Take Your Legislator to Work Day campaign in October as part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The campaign will raise awareness about the benefits of hiring individuals with disabilities and the belief that employment and careers should be the expected and preferred outcomes of all publicly funded services for individuals with disabilities—Employment First. Essentially, legislators should see "real jobs with real wages." APSE is encouraging participants to 1) provide a 30-45 minute tour of their workplace highlighting where employees work and the job duties they perform, 2) introduce legislators to employees’ co-workers and employer, and 3) discuss their experience working in a job in the community. APSE has a toolkit, a list of frequently asked questions and a fact sheet as resources on their website. For more information, visit http://www.apse.org/policy-advocacy/take-legislator-work-day/. If you are interested in having this activity in Mississippi, please contact Dr. Jerry Alliston at jerry.alliston@usm.edu.
2) Article on Walgreens’ Employment Goals for People with Disabilities
“We haven’t found a disability we can’t employ,” said Randy Lewis, retired Walgreen’s senior vice president. Having a son with autism motivated Lewis to see how he could make businesses more inclusive and diverse. In this HR magazine article, Lewis discusses how Walgreens opened “mission-critical” positions and set workforce target goals for the hiring of people with disabilities. To read the article, visit http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hr/features/1145395/randy-lewis-havent-disability-employ?sthash.yrJuyO9J.mjjo.
3) Rethinking College
Rethinking College is a 25-minute film produced by Think College that explores the growing movement to include students with intellectual disabilities in higher education. The film illustrates through the eyes of parents, educators, advocates, policy leaders and, most importantly, students how colleges and universities can provide a setting for all students to grow, learn and build toward better futures. To learn more about the Think College and to view the film, go to http://www.thinkcollege.net/rethinking-college.
4) Call for Nominations: Promising Business Relations Practices
The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts in Boston is conducting research on business relations and employment for people with disabilities served by state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies. ICI is looking for emerging or innovative practices that meet the needs of businesses and promote the employment of people with disabilities. Nominations of business relations practices used by VR agencies and other employment programs are currently being accepted. The nominated practices are not required to be formally established or evidence-based. For more information or for the form to nominate an organization, visit http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1709029/Nomination.
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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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