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Disability
and Employment - Vocational Rehabilitation: Where Partners Create
Careers - Strategies provided on the following topic:
Strategy: Employment Outcomes Systems: A Public/Private
Partnership
Presenters - Allision Chase, Vocational
Rehabilitation Program Partnership Administrator
Florida Division of Blind Services; Allen Anderson, President,
Employment Management Professionals
Contact: 2551 Executive Center Circle,
West, Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: (850) 488 1330
Fax: (850) 487 1804
Allison_chase@dbs.doe.state.fl.us
Facilitator: Rick Anderson
In five years, the Florida Division of
Blind Services has doubled competitive employment outcomes for
individuals who are legally blind. Over the course of two years, North
Carolina Services for the Blind has increased competitive employment for
individuals who are significantly disabled by 28%, and Kentucky
Commission for the Blind has made an increase of 17%. The rise in
competitive employment has been a direct result of the public/private
partnership each agency has with Employment Management Professionals,
Inc. (EMP)
EMP has worked with each of the agencies
to restructure their systems for job development and marketing with the
goal of considerably increasing the numbers of individuals with the most
significant disabilities who go to work in the competitive market. EMP
has developed advanced techniques and strategies that emphasize placing
individuals who have traditionally been left out of competitive
employment, thereby increasing the number of individuals who earn
competitive wages in permanent employment situations.
Benefits to state job
developers/counselors include:
- A greater ability to penetrate and
deal with the labor market.
- An easy consolidation of skills/best
practices from job developers around the state as well as in other
states; and
- An enhanced ability to manage a more
difficult to serve caseload.
Benefits to VR consumers include:
- More jobs for people normally left out
of the hiring equation;
- More people able to move forward
independently at wages which were traditionally unattainable; and
- Better job satisfaction as a result of
more job choices/opportunities
Benefits to the State Agencies
include:
- A better return on investments for
time and resources spent with employers;
- Longer-term, more productive
relationships with employers; and
- Increased competitive outcomes as
agencies are able to serve a greater variety of consumers.
This presentation will focus on:
- The relationship that EMP has
established with these and other state VR agencies to improve and
streamline services with the most significant disabilities;
- The need for VR agencies to recognize
that individuals and employers have different needs that must be
addressed through different strategies;
- How VR agencies can begin to
distinguish the different levels of job development needs of their
consumers and how to begin strategizing based on the demands of the
caseload;
- Recognizing that not all employer
needs that can be marketed to are skill based and how to capitalize on
this concept; and
- Using longer term marketing strategies
to build long-term employer relationships.
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