>> Thank you everyone for joining today's Community of Practice for Inclusive Career
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My name is Shannon Edam and I'm a project coordinator with WINTAC.
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Our first speaker today is Nikki Powis and she'll introduce the Community of Practice.
>> Thanks Shannon.
Can you hear me okay?
>> I can.
>> Okay great.
I was just making sure I had unmuted from all the places that needed to be.
Okay so, just wanted to let everybody know, if this was you first time in the meeting,
welcome.
If not, then, great to have you back.
This Community of Practice does support and share ideas and insights into how to really
plan, implement, and engage in career pathways to increase those opportunities for individuals
with disabilities.
We have meetings every other months and we have different topics and resources.
We're always really happy to hear from you, our audience, what it is that you want to
hear.
We've invited you to message us, you can put that in the chat.
Or, if you have joined our Community of Practice online through the wintac.org site, there's
a way that you can actually send us a message through that and let us know what it is you
want to hear about.
We've heard from folks that one of the things that's important is more resources on how
to really engage and how to help move the folks that you work with forward into Career
Pathways, especially individuals with disabilities.
So, the last couple of meetings we focused on those resources and today certainly is
along those lines as well.
I also do invite you to join us on the Community of Practice online at wintac.org because it's
an opportunity for you to interact with your peers across the country.
And, there is a forum on there that you can tell us what you want and, so that we can
be responsive to you but also so that you can connect with others as well.
So, just wanted to bring that out.
Just go ahead and move to the next slide for us Shannon.
And, here is your technical assistance team.
We are actually a collaboration between the LEAD Center WINTAC, which is the Workforce
Innovation Technical Assistance Center and the Southeast ADA Center.
So, here we have Rebecca, Brian, myself Nikki Powis, and Pam Williamson.
And, you can see our organization affiliations on the slide.
If you, LEAD Center for Rebecca, Brian and I are WINTAC, and Pam with the Southeast ADA
Center.
And, go forward for us.
Okay so I'm going to turn it over quickly to Rebecca so that she can just let you know
a little bit about the LEAD Center.
>> Thanks so much Nikki and Shannon.
The LEAD Center, if you're not familiar with us, is the National Center leadership for
the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities.
We're a collaborative of disability, workforce, and economic empowerment organizations led
by National Disability Institute with funding from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office
of Disability Employment Policy.
And, we exist to advance sustainable individual and systems level change to result in improved,
competitive, integrated employment and economic self-sufficiency outcomes for people across
the spectrum of disabilities.
And, this slide gives you all of the ways that you can contact us and stay up to date
on the activities of the LEAD Center.
Thanks Nikki.
>> Thanks a lot Rebecca.
And, WINTAC's [inaudible] Brian is going to jump in and tell you all about what we do.
>> Is funded through the Rehabilitation Services Administration and supports state vocational
rehabilitation agencies and their partners in effectively implementing the requirements
of WIOA.
I'd like to invite you to visit our website at www.wintac.or where you're going to find
a wealth of information and resources.
Also, the forum and place where you can interact with us and with your colleagues around the
country is housed on our site.
And, we welcome new members at any time.
If you're a VR agency not yet working with us or who wants to contact us, you can also
find a list of technical assistance liaisons like myself and Nikki for each state on our
site.
How's that Nikki?
I'll turn it back over to you.
>> Great, thanks.
Okay, and now we'll go to Pam to give us a little overview of the Southeast ADA Center.
>> Good afternoon everyone.
My name is Pam Williamson and I am with the Southeast ADA Center.
We are a project of the Burton Blatt institute of Syracuse University.
We're also a member of the ADA National Network and funded by the National Institute on Disability
Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.
We, and the other nine centers in the ADA national network, provide information, training,
and guidance on the Americans With Disabilities Act and Disability Access.
And, we provide services to anyone including employers, individuals with disabilities,
state and local government agencies, including VR professionals, and private businesses.
We also conduct research to reduce and eliminate barriers to employment and economic self-sufficiency
and to increase the civic and social participation of Americans with disabilities.
We're very excited to partner with WINTAC and LEAD on today's informative session and
look forward to hearing from you.
>> All right thanks so much.
Okay so we rare so excited, and I'm super excited myself, I haven't even seen this yet.
We're going to give a little introduction to the newly created Inclusive Career Pathways
Roadmap that was developed by the LEAD Center in coordination, I believe, with some other
folks helping.
So, let's just jump to Rebecca's bio if we could Shannon.
Okay so, our speaker is Rebecca Salon with the LEAD Center.
And, she is the Project Director for the National Center on Leadership for Employment or LEAD.
She is a recognized national leader in policy and program development with an emphasis on
cutting-edge demonstrations that really promote economic self-sufficiency and employment for
folks with significant disabilities.
She has many, many years in the field, over 25, with management of federally funded programs
and over 35 years working with people across the spectrum of disability.
She also works at the District of Columbia Department on Disability Services where she's
the lead for DC's Employment First program initiatives, which is focused on creating
opportunities for employment, community inclusion, and economic self-sufficiency for youth and
adults in the District of Columbia.
We are really lucky to hear from Dr. Salon and also to have her as a part of our planning
and design team for this Community of Practice.
So, I'm going to turn it over to you Rebecca and so excited to hear about the Roadmap.
>> Thanks so much Nikki.
And, I think I'm going to switch screens now so that you'll be able to see the roadmap.
Just give me one second and I'm hoping that you can all see something that looks like
a roadmap.
Is that true.
>> Yes, it's there Rebecca.
>> Great, okay.
We actually wanted to start with a little poll before we start with the specifics of
the Roadmap.
So, if I could ask Shannon to put up a couple of polling questions that we thought would
be helpful, in part, to guide the discussion.
>> So this one [inaudible].
>> Okay so, there are three yes or no polling questions.
If you could, each, for those of you who are on computer, I know some of you may be joining
by phone.
But, if you're on computer, if you could just check yes, no, or I don't know in a couple
of places.
The three questions are.
Are you working with the Career Pathways Program in your state or region?
The second is, have you read your state's Career Pathway's plan?
And the third is, does your jurisdiction's Career Pathways task force or work group discuss
accessibility?
We're just going to give you a couple minutes to be able to share your answers to those
questions.
We'll wait until the numbers stop changing.
>> And, Rebecca, looks like a couple of folks have said that they're not seeing the survey
pop up.
So, you know, maybe would you also be okay with them putting something in chat?
I don't know, you may have to repeat the questions, I know, but.
>> Sure, sure.
But, so, there's, well there's 57 people who, I'm not sure why they would, unless there's
some popup blocker or something that might be blocking it.
So, yes, people do want to respond.
The questions again are, are you working with the Career Pathways Program in your state
or region, yes, no, or I don't know?
The second was have you read your state's Career Pathways Plan?
And, that's either a yes or no.
And does your jurisdiction's Career Pathways task force or work group discuss accessibility?
And, that also was yes, no, and I don't know.
And, I think, people who do have access to this have pretty much finished voting.
So, for those of you who can't see the site, I apologize and we'll have to figure out why
that is.
But, in terms of whether or not people are working with the Career Pathways Programs
in their region, 30% said yes, 47%, so almost half said no, and 23% said that they didn't
know, which means that people may not be clear as to which programs are considered Career
Pathways programs.
So, important answers.
To the question of have you read your state's career Pathway's plan, 31% said yes, 69% said
no, so another important piece of information.
Every state, every jurisdiction has a Career Pathways plan.
So, as you're a member of a Career Pathways community [inaudible] it would be important
to track that down.
It's probably on a website that your Work Force Development Board has or a Work Force
Investment Council or the Work Force Board is in your state.
But, you should be able to access it.
And, the third question is does your jurisdiction's Career Pathways task force and work group
discuss accessibility?
So, 23% said yes they do, 3% said no, and 73% said that they didn't know, which, I would
read into that that people may not know what happens at those meetings.
And again, there are work groups and task forces that meet regularly that are the Career
Pathways partners in your region or state.
Those meetings, typically, are open to the public.
Chances are, vocation or rehabilitation has a seat at the table at those meetings.
But, it would be, you know, another area that would be important to become involved in.
And, we're hoping that the resources that we talk about today will give you information
that you'd be able to share with those kinds of groups.
So, we can close the poll now and jump into the Career Pathways Roadmap.
I guess I can do that, I did that, okay.
This is new technology for me so, so far mostly working.
So, this clearly is an important topic to people, the creation of Inclusive Career Pathways.
We had close to 400 people sign up for this webinar.
And, this webinar, really, is just a preview.
So that, you know, really speaks to the fact that this is important.
I also know, from participating in previous community practice meetings, that, you've
had discussions about the Career Pathways toolkit that's posted on Workforce GPS that
was developed to align with WIOA's vision and requirements.
It's a fabulous toolkit.
It was developed to support states as they were developing their state plan and to support
systems in a way that's very comprehensive and useful.
But, as our team at LEAD Center was out working with work force partner from many different
sectors, the people that we worked with identified the need for tools to assist practitioners
and Career Pathways partners and other work force development professionals in making
their programs accessible to people with disabilities or to other people who experience barriers
to employment and to assist them in building productive partnerships either with other
WIOA partners, with employers, with community agencies, with whoever it was that they were
working with.
So, that's kind of a background where this came from.
So, the LEAD Center spent the last couple of years working with partners at American
Job Center, vocational rehabilitation, community colleges, adult education programs, community
providers, Centers for Independent Living, all of the partners that support people as
they're seeking employment or economic advancement, and really worked to identify examples of
promising practices and research and other useful information that people in the field
can use.
And, just as in the slide, the LEAD Center's staff are all people who worked for most of
our careers in the field.
So, we worked at AJC's and community employment providers and DDH and [inaudible] DR.
And, we know how precious the time is of people who are working directly in programs.
And, we also know that there are an overwhelming number of resources that are out there.
So, we wanted to create a tool that kind of narrowed the choices that, and could still
guide people to really useful resources.
So, this is designed to be that tool, to be user friendly.
And, the more that we talked about Career Pathways, the more we envisioned it as a road
with a destination.
So, we created a roadmap.
And really had fun with the metaphor as you'll see as we talk it through.
So, as you can see, it's a windy road that leads to the destination of employment and
economic self-sufficiency.
And, along the road there are traffic circles or roundabouts that can take you to places
and then put you back on to the career pathway, back onto the road toward employment.
And, each traffic circle has a key area, key driver to assist someone in created inclusive
career pathways.
So, as you can see there's an employer connection traffic circle, one on supports for youths
with disabilities, one on partnerships, one on accessibility, and another on capacity
building.
All this gets you back onto the road.
I want to point out that the roadmap that you're seeing is almost finished.
So, what you're seeing really is a preview of the roadmap.
It will be finished and launched efficiently on February 20th.
We're doing a 90 minute webinar that will feature some of our federal partners as well
as workforce staff and leaders who've contributed some of the best practices on the roadmap.
And, on the webinar, you'll get to see the roadmap's full functionality and, more importantly,
get to hear from people who are implementing Inclusive Career Pathways programs, as they've
describe what they've done and how they think people might want to use the roadmap.
And, there'll be a registration link later in today's session, if you're interested in
joining that.
So, back to the roadmap metaphor.
So, if you look at the roadmap, roadmaps have keys.
So, we created a roadmap key.
And, I'm going to click on it here.
And, you'll see that that once you've selected an area, so once you select Employer Connections
or Accessibility, once you click on any of the road signs along the way, you'll find
each of these areas of information.
So, it will give you questions that you can ask yourself or you can ask your team to help
you determine if you're effectively implementing that element of Inclusive Career Pathways.
It will give you actions that you can take, again, individually or as a team that have
been recommended in helping state or local workforce partners to learn more about how
to positively impact employment for people who face barriers to employment.
There's a section on example from other regions that emphasize how this essential element
is actually being implemented somewhere and how it's connected to expand the Inclusive
Career Pathways.
And, it'll give you a list of resources which we've, again, tried to narrow down so it's
not an overwhelming list of resources.
But really, the resources that our partners and our team really felt were some of the
best resources for you to look at.
So, we have, so, you'll see this, these four icons and you'll see these four areas in each
of the places on the roadmap.
So, that's our roadmap key.
Each traffic circle has four or five destinations, which we'll look at in a moment.
But, before we do that, you can see these are the destinations, as you hover over any
of these, but we'll go into more detail.
But, I wanted to point out that there's two roadside assistant billboards that are part
of the Inclusive Career Pathways roadmap.
So, as you can see we just kept running with this metaphor.
So, if you click on the LEAD Technical Assistance, it's not opening, there it is.
If you click on that billboard, it directs you to the Knowledge Translation Consortium
page on the center's website.
So, since 2012, we've had a Knowledge Translation Consortium that brings together, I think we're
at now it's 36 federally funded training and technical assistance centers that are focused
on employment for people with disabilities in some way.
So, it's a one stop place where you can go to get information from any of the federally
funded technical assistance centers that are working on employment and disability.
So, if you're looking for technical assistance, if you're looking for free resources, webinars,
presentations, research, data, you can click on that roadside assistance sign, click on
the link here for Knowledge Translation Consortium, and it'll take you there.
So, again, in trying to make this user friendly and easy for people to access information,
we give you a single site that you can go to, to look for information.
The other one says Want to Drive Change.
Again, running with the metaphor of a roadmap.
And, in this one, we provide information about implementation science.
And, over the last couple of years, both WINTAC and LEAD have been very focused on the science
of making implementation work.
And, some of the staff that work in both technical assistance centers really have put together
some great information.
There's a National Implementation Research Network that's been studying what makes for
successful implementation for decades, at this point, so that there's an evidence base
for, you know, really looking at what drives change, what needs to happen for successful
implementation.
So, we wanted to give you, again, three short resources.
One of them is a PowerPoint presentation that you can go through.
One is a one pager and one is a two pager.
But, just talk about what is important to focus on as you 're trying to create change,
as you're trying to bring a new innovation or some new implementation a new partnership
together.
And, as luck would have it, the implementation science talks about drivers.
So, you can get information on the competency drivers, organizational drivers, and leadership
drivers that drive change.
So, again, it's something to think about as you're pursuing your Career Pathways programs
or building partnerships that are going to promote, going to promote successful outcomes
for people.
So.
So, let's look at the five traffic circles for a second.
So, if we look at Capacity Building, and again there's a hover, the site is fully accessible.
So, if people have visual or other limitations, they should still be able to use this.
So, under Capacity Building, we wanted to focus on areas that we believe have shown
that they promote inclusive career pathway and get people to employment and economic
self-sufficiency outcomes.
So, the areas that you can find, under Capacity Building, are Customizing Employment, Other
Promising Practices, Targeted Technical Assistance, and Workforce Incentives and Benefits Planning.
And, before I click on any of these, I just want to review the five different traffic
circles.
So, those are the four off ramps, if you will, that you'll find under Capacity Building.
Under Accessibility, there's an off ramp for accommodations, one that focuses on AJC certification,
and again, resources and actions and examples that would support certification, Assistive
Technology, and the WIOA section 188 Disability Reference Guide which has a lot of examples
in it that promote equal opportunity for people in the workforce system.
The next one is Partnerships.
The Partnerships focuses on co-enrollment and integrated resources teams.
Career Pathways programs, you know, focus, any Career Pathways programs, not just inclusive
Career Pathways Programs have a strong emphasis on partnerships, on co-enrollment, on leveraging
resources a Cross System, another area on Cross Title and Cross System activities with
examples on where that's working well, resource Coordination and Employment for Veterans.
So, that's what you'd find under Partnerships.
Under Youth With Disabilities, a section on financial literacy, one on Guideposts for
Success, one on Partnerships that are Specific to Youth, and one on Work Based Learning.
So again, all important areas for youth with disabilities.
And, the final area is Employer Connections.
And, that focuses on apprenticeships, on the job training, and other work base learning.
A section on Benefits to Employers and Return on Investments.
So, information that would allow you to focus on how to make the business case to an employer.
Coordination between systems, so, our Career Pathways partners collaborating on employer
connections.
And, Diverse and Reverse Career Fairs which is a promising practice that has been very
effective in lots of places.
So, let me drill down for a minute and give you an example.
So, let's say that you're working with someone in vocational rehabilitation.
And, she's interested in a registered apprenticeship that's offered through your local American
Job Center.
Now, for her to be successful she'll need some assistive technology, you know, at minimum
a screen reader and some dictation software that comes with the other software.
Depending on the demands of the job, she may need, you know, much more complicated things.
So, you're meeting with your AJC counterpart, you work in vocation rehabilitation and they
clearly are uncomfortable talking about assistive technology.
So, you can, together, while you're meeting go to the LEAD Center's website.
And, I should point out, if you've been on LEAD Center's website before, you'll recognize
this blue bar across the top.
So, we've always had areas on WIOA workforce development and customized inform and financial
literacy and capability and cross system collaboration.
On the 20th, because again, this is just a preview and it's not live yet, there will
be this additional green button, the same color as the road signs that says Road to
Inclusive Career Pathways.
And, that's the button that would get you to this roadmap.
So, if, in fact, you're having a conversation, someone is really uncomfortable about assistive
technology.
You could go to Accessibility, you could click on Assistive Technology, and it takes you
to this page.
And, here are the questions to ask yourself the actions that you can take, examples, and
resources.
So, you know, in this case, the questions, just to give you an idea of what this looks
like, are do all WIOA core partners know how to implement section 188, which are the equal
opportunity provisions of WIOA in conjunction with the Americans with Disabilities Act,
embedding it with policies and procedures including reasonable accommodations and assistive
technology?
So, that's a question that a Career Pathways work group could ask itself, if that were
something that they were focusing on.
Another question is do all WIOA partners collaborate with VR and other disability organizations
to support AJC certification surveying and continuous improvement?
Because that likely would include a focus on assistive technology.
It provides some actions that people can take, explore how WIOA leadership communicates to
program staff about operationalizing policies in areas of physical, programmatic, and communication
accessibility, and what training efforts have been deployed including training on assistive
technology.
Explore levels of partnerships with VR and other disability organizations to see what
you can build on, you know, to look at what's being effectively implemented in the region.
There's an example here which is he section 188 Disability Reference Guide which has lots
of examples of how the workforce system is using assistive technology to enable someone
to be successful.
And then, there's a list of six resources.
So, I learned that, if I, although I can click on it and download one of the play lists,
so there's a play list on technology access for individuals with disabilities that was
created by the Disability Employment Initiative, if you were to click on that.
So again, because we're not fully functional yet, I can't show you exactly what that one
would look like without using the connection.
But, it gives you web pages on documents, it drives you to a document on funding to
assistive technology, transitioning from secondary school to VR and work, so something on how
funding might be available to you if you're transitioning from high school to VR and work.
It links you to the Job Accommodation Network, which again, as most of you probably know,
has an enormous number of resources on assistive technology.
It drives you to Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology, PEAT, which is
another technical assistance center that focuses on assistive and accessible technology in
the workplace.
And, they have documents like accessible technology actions that provide, for employers, [inaudible].
So, again, it gives you an idea of what you can access.
So, there are these play lists that have really useful information.
There's a direct link to the Job Accommodation Network, a Career Pathways customer flow that
includes an assessment of someone's needs for assistive technology, a link to find information
about your state's assistive technology program, and again, a link to Partnership on Employment
and Accessible Technology, PEAT.
So, it will provide you with some resources right on the spot, you know, that somebody
could contact the Job Accommodation Network directly and find out information that might
help this person that you're trying to serve jointly to get more information and to make
people feel like they have the support.
So, we envision people use them in many different ways.
Before I leave this page, I just want to direct your attention to the side bar.
So, the side bar has, at the top, the Destination Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency.
Right now we're in the accessibility part of the roadmap.
And, these are the four off ramps.
We clicked on Assistive Technology.
But, from here, if you wanted to go to one of the other ones, you could do that directly
or you could decide that you're interested in growing to Capacity Building and click
on that, scroll down a little, you can get to all of the different places on the roadmap
from this side bar including the two Road Side Assistance signs.
So, it allows you to go back.
You can hit the Back button or you can, you know, click here and it will get you back
to the roadmap.
I want to mention that this has been designed so that it will be accessible on any browser
and on any platform.
So, right now, I'm showing it to you from a laptop.
It works on tablets, it's a little smaller on a tablet.
It works on mobile devices.
So, you can pull it up on your handheld.
Actually, what your side bar looks like is more similar to what it looks like on a handheld.
So, it's much more linear, you have much less space.
But, it's been designed so you'd be able to access it on a number of different devices.
I'm just looking at the time.
So, we can go back to the Homepage and maybe, you know, look at one more area.
And then, we want to open it up to questions or to hear your suggestions for things that,
you know, you wish it would also include, whether or not you think it would be a, so
for different things.
Again, we can't take you to every point on it in the time that we have available, but.
So, why don't we do one of the partnership ones?
I'm going to click on Co-enrollment and Integrated Resource Teams.
So again, we have the same four areas.
The question is things like do AJC's convened integrated resource team have a process for
co-enrolling customers with disabilities who benefit from services from multiple systems
to reach employment outcomes?
So, if you're in a work group and you want to get people to [inaudible] around an issue,
it gives you some questions that you can ask yourself, that give you an assessment of where
you might be.
Do AJC actively partner with other systems with their customers with multiple support
needs?
Do the state equal opportunity officer collaborate with VR and other disability organizations
and other WIOA partners to implement the equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policies
and practices that are required by WIOA?
So, important questions that would allow a work group or a Career Pathways task force
to focus in on an area.
A number of actions that you can take, you know, and I'll just do this randomly.
And, the last one is to conduct research mapping to identify potential partners to learn how
and if agencies proactively address the common myth that everyone is a funder of last resort.
You know, find out if the following rules are represented on cross partner committees.
Are equal opportunity officers policy administrators, program managers, disability assignment staff
or other partners across the section of disabilities represented?
So, those are some actions and they give you nine possible actions that you can take individually
or can bring to a team that might be working on this.
There are three examples.
One is, again, the section 188 Disabilities Reference Guide, which would give you a number
of different example of integrated resources teams and co-enrollments that support equal
opportunity and employment outcomes.
For example, from Virginia's Accessibility and One Stop Task, for how they collaborate
across different titles to address equal opportunity and access for people with disabilities.
And, there's a number of resources related to integrated resource teams.
So, those are examples of things that are actually happening.
And then, there's six resources at the bottom including the Inclusive Career Pathways Desktop
Guides, which we talked about a couple of Community Practice meetings ago.
But, you know, just an easy to use reference for some of our favorite resources to promote
Career Pathways.
There's the Career Pathways toolkit that on Workforce GPS, Guided Group Discovery and
Self-Guided Discovery that are resources that can bring different systems together to serve
people.
So, those are, you know, those are two examples of what you'll find behind the Homepage in
terms of resources.
As I mentioned, we're still working out some bugs and adding some final content.
But, on the 20th, I think, it will be an opportunity to hear from Federal RSA about their Inclusive
Career Pathways progress and their relationship to the roadmap from Sarah Hastings who has
presented before and who coordinated the group that developed the Career Pathways toolkit,
and then from a number of state that we worked closely with that came up with some of the
examples and are doing a lot to implement what's happening.
So, I hope that you'll be able to join.
If you do go the LEAD Center's homepage and look for upcoming webinars, you can register
that way.
I'll give you a link shortly.
But, it will give you a lot better information than I can do now since we're not fully functional.
So, I think that's it.
I'd love to, you know, hear suggestions or get questions.
>> We have several questions Rebecca.
I'm going to just mention a couple of things [inaudible] a couple of people have asked
about the CEU's and so certificates of attendance.
These meetings don't offer CEU's.
You did register.
So, you do have verification of registration if you really need to verify your attendance,
we are able to know that you attended.
So, if you email I can send you over verification email if that's something you really, really
need.
Also apparently, we have had a software glitched.
And so, if you have colleagues that have mentioned to you or are frustrated that they were unable
to get on, apparently, the software provider shut us down after a certain number.
So, we don't have our full number of registrants.
So, just sort of letting everybody know that, in case you've got colleagues that, you know,
are frustrated by that glitched, and, we will be, as we've mentioned, posting the archive
of this to both the leadcenter.org and wintac.org within the next day or two so folks can, you
know, listen in or obviously join the upcoming webinar if you get the full spectrum of the
site.
Okay so, one question that we have that is more related to general Career Pathways, Rebecca,
if you want to take this or I can or whatever.
But, our Employment First practices, is that the same thing as Career Pathways somebody
asked?
>> I didn't hear the beginning of the question.
Are what?
>> Is Employment First is it the same thing as Career Pathways.
>> No that's a fair question.
And, no, but they're related.
So, Career Pathways, actually, it's something that's been around for decades and is a commitment
on the part of the Federal Government.
There are, I think, and actually there's a link at the end of the PowerPoint today to
the letter that was signed by, I think, 12 or more agencies to create Career Pathways
for people in general.
That it's a, you know, a path to, you know that people need more than jobs.
But, you know, there needs to be a way to scaffold skills for people so they continue
to advance in their careers.
Employment First refers to public agencies using public dollars to promote employment
before other things.
So that, if there's a choice between how the money's used, that money be invested in employment
rather than day activities or other programs.
So, it's really, you know, more a commitment to promote employment for people with disabilities
as the first and preferred choice.
Whereas, Career Pathways is for everyone, Employment First is much more targeted for
people with disabilities.
And, what we've tried to do here, since there's been Career Pathways programs for a while
and WIOA really highlighted the importance of Career Pathways, is that we wanted to make
sure that people had resources to make sure that those Career Pathways programs were inclusive.
So, in whatever jurisdiction that you may be in, chances are your community college
offers programs that reflect the high growth, high demand careers in your area.
So then, it might be in home healthcare, it might be in advanced manufacturing or whatever.
So, that's more the Career Pathways where there's a chance for you to start off as a
health aid and become an LPN and advance to be an RN and advance to be a bachelors degree
RN and those kind of things where you'd have that pathway that allows you to scaffold and
layer on your capabilities.
I don't know if you want to add anything Nikki.
>> No that's good.
I want to make sure that we don't run out of time, I've got several questions.
Are the roundabouts also used for disability stability pit stops.
>> For disability, I'm having trouble hearing I'm sorry.
>> Oh I'm sorry.
Is my phone breaking up?
>> No, I just turned it up.
>> Okay.
So, the roundabouts the traffic circles are they also used for disability stability pit
stops?
So are the pit stops also, is there some that reference stability, stabilization I'm guessing
[inaudible]?
>> Not specifically, yeah, I'm not 100% sure.
Is it, if they're referring to retention, people being able to retain employment?
>> Yeah, I don't know Danny if you want to unmute yourself, that question came from Danny
Marquez.
You want to unmute you could [inaudible].
>> Can you hear me?
>> Yeah we can.
Thanks Danny.
>> I guess I was really referring to individuals with mental health disabilities that sometimes
can be cyclical in nature.
But, dealing with, you know, mental health disability issues under quest for pathway,
for Career Pathway work.
>> Yeah, no, I can see, you know, how that's another analogy another good metaphor for
this because work is so important for people to maintain that stability.
So, I think, you know, it isn't anything that we thought about, but it's another, you know,
another interesting metaphor that, to think about because it potentially could help someone,
you know, stabilize and be able to stay on the pathway.
So, that's an interesting thought.
>> Thanks Danny.
>> Thank you.
>> Where would benefit, thanks.
Where would benefit counseling be on the roadmap?
Is that there?
>> We have it under Capacity Building.
There it is.
So, under Capacity Building Work Incentives, and Benefits Planning is there.
And, it has a little bit on financial planning, the financial capability's more under the
use with disabilities because that's a WIOA requirement.
But, the Work Incentives Benefits Planning is under Capacity Building.
>> I think a couple of them references to the fact that this webinar is difficult for
screen readers.
Zoom is supposed to be completely accessible and [inaudible] accessibility.
So, the comment is the testing, you know, on the roadmap before it becomes public, but,
I think you've already done that and you said it is accessible on multiple browsers and
the screen readers and other types of things.
>> Yes.
>> Right?
>> Yes.
Yeah, we have several people who specialize in that who are making sure that, before it's
launched, that it's fully accessible.
>> Okay.
>> Because we were not sure also with the hovers and things, sometime those aren't accessible.
But, we have been assured that it will be.
>> Right, right.
And, I just deeply apologize.
We actually changed from the Webex platform to the Zoom platform with the understanding
that it would be more accessible.
So, thank you very much for your comments and we will be sure to take a look at that
and see what we need to do to change that next time and I just deeply apologize.
So, another question.
Where would I find resources on disability right, disclosure of disabilities to employers
and how to ask for accommodation resources?
>> Okay.
They're all good questions.
So, under Use with Disabilities, there are documents related to disclosure, several documents
related to disclosure that you would find there.
We, I'm trying to think if there's any place that, you know, really has rights and advocacy.
And, the roadmap really was developed more for workforce professionals.
Although, we did talk about, in the next iteration, should we be able to do another iteration
that we wanted there to be a portion of this that would be clearly for people with disabilities,
advocates, family members?
But yeah, we really don't have, you know, from a Career Pathways standpoint, we've tried
to limit the field to what Career Pathways requires and what might be useful for workforce
professionals.
So, we do have something on disclosure but not necessarily on rights.
>> Okay.
Thanks a lot.
Another comment about stability might be a good path on the road.
So, we've already mentioned that was something to think about.
Will there be a way to search the roadmap using a type search?
>> So, to type in something into the search function?
>> Yeah.
>> I don't know.
I will find that out before the 20th so that we can answer that question.
I mean, I'm assuming since the search function works for the entire website, that we would.
But, I've never tried it because we haven't been fully live yet.
So, I am making a note to make sure that that works before the launch or at least that we
can answer that question.
>> Great.
Okay another comment employers need this information too.
They have a fear of litigation and don't know what rights and responsibilities they have.
So, I guess that's more of a comment to make sure that they broadly market it and to include
the employer [inaudible].
>> And, I think, you know, the needs Technical Assistance Billboard, you know, takes you
to a number of places including the Earn Technical Assistance Center that works with employers
that has wonderful resources for employers and an opportunity for employer to employer
dialogue.
So, I think that there are things on the roadmap that people can direct people to get that
kind of information.
There are other TA centers that, I know, that Assisted Technology PEAT center has some resources
that they've developed specifically for employers.
Certainly the Job Accommodation Network has a lot of information specifically for employers.
So, I think you'd be able to use the roadmap to find resources that, you know, that could
set employer's minds at ease or help you as a workforce professional to respond to concerns
that employers may have.
>> Great.
>> These are great, thank you.
>> Yeah.
Yeah.
ADA National Network is a resource too.
A few folks are putting in some resources in chat, like EOC and JAN and ADA National
Network.
>> And those are all on the KT Consortium by the way.
So, those are all on the Knowledge Translation Consortium.
>> All right, great.
Shannon are you seeing anything in the chat that I'm missing?
We have about five minutes.
I don't know if there's anybody that would like to unmute themselves and make any comments
or ask any questions.
Oh there is [inaudible].
Sorry go ahead.
>> What was the overall goal for this project?
>> To, that's also a great question.
So, we really did want to create a resource in response to what we were hearing from people
in the field that could help them find information resources, guidance, so that they could create
or partner with other agencies in Career Pathways programs or just in employment programs in
general.
I think as we, you know, found ourselves in the field, people are just overwhelmed with
the number of resources that are out there.
I'm sure you've all experienced this.
And we all have limited time.
So, we wanted to create something that would be a little more focused and user friendly
and a little intuitive for people to be able to just drill down and find something without
having to spend hours doing research.
So, for people who, like yourselves, who are interested in creating programs that are more
inclusive building career pathways for and with people with disabilities.
You know, we wanted to create a tool that could provide that for people who work in
the field.
>> We have a question asking how I can get on a list for future events.
And, we'll get to that in just a second.
Is there a listing of employers [inaudible] with providing employment for disabled individuals
by state?
>> It's possible that Disability In would have some of that, used to be the U.S. Business
Leadership Network and it's now called Disability In.
It's an employer to employer national organization.
So, they do some of that work.
But maybe, I don't know if someone else on the call has a better answer than that.
>> I'm thinking the NAT also, which is through CSABR they, you know, have a wide employer
following and they would, they would certainly know who's working with them.
>> This is Chris from ODEF, can you hear me?
>> Yeah hey Chris.
>> Yeah.
>> Hi, hi, yeah, this is, I've been just really enjoying listening.
I'm thinking there's probably not just one source, but, as you said, there probably are
a variety.
And, the two that you've mentioned are two very good sources.
>> Thanks Chris, yeah.
And also, I've had a little bit of a sidebar conversation with a member of the Chamber
of Commerce Board for Disability in the greater Houston area, which I was fascinated by.
So I'm sure, you know, that person would be able to let you know, within their area.
And, I had not actually known that there was, you know, maybe there's other Chamber of Commerce
throughout the nation that do have specific disability boards that I'm not aware of.
But that, I'm thinking that might be another place too.
Does anybody else, oh go ahead.
Did you say something?
>> Should I stop sharing so you can get back to the PowerPoint?
>> Yeah, yeah go ahead.
You can move on because we've got, I think another minute.
While that's happening, certainly invite anybody to unmute if you'd like to mention a comment
or tell us what you'd like to hear in the future.
So, the official launched webinar which was already mentioned where, when this will actually
go live, several people have asked for the link.
It will be on the LEAD Center website, as you saw, it will be on the banner at the top
very clearly marked.
But, it will not be live until this webinar launches at the official launch of it.
And, you have a link here that you can go to or you can go to the leadcenter.org website
also to register for the February 20th webinar which Rebecca already mentioned quite a bit
about that.
If, Shannon if you want to move on.
Okay, we've already had our Q and A. So, here are some resources.
Again, all of this will be posted on both leadcenter.org and wintac.org.
And, you can get to this presentation, you can also email us if you would like a copy.
And, there are several resources that we have listed on here, the Career Pathways Desktop
Guide, the toolkit that was developed by several agencies.
Next Shannon, that joint federal agency method that Rebecca already mentioned, there's some
Career Pathways checklists, there's some great videos there, and then some other areas where
a link for those resources and things on Career Pathways.
And, if you want to just go to our last slide, it just reminds you again who we are and how
to contact us.
We'll leave this up for a minute.
Please feel free to email any of us with any other comments, questions.
And again, a reminder, we really want these meetings every other month to be responsive
to your needs.
So please tell us what you'd like to hear, what sort of topics you want within the Career
Pathways realm.
Got a couple of people saying that they're really looking forward to the release of it
and for making accessibility a priority.
So, kudos there.
Okay, we're all, with that I think thank you very much everybody.
And again, please don't hesitate to contact us and we really look forward to hearing from
you.
And, we will be back again with our next meeting two months from now.
Goodbye everybody.
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