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ERIC Number: ED603602
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
A Roadmap to Competitive Integrated Employment: Strategies for Provider Transformation. Bringing Employment First to Scale, Issue No. 20
Kamau, Esther; Timmons, Jaimie
Institute for Community Inclusion
Competitive integrated employment is defined within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA, 2014) as full-time or part-time work at minimum wage or higher, with wages and benefits similar to those without disabilities performing the same work, and fully integrated with coworkers without disabilities. The Act requires that states ensure employment is offered as a priority outcome for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) partnered with The Arc of the United States to identify ten elements of successful organizational transformation to competitive integrated employment. They asked four providers who successfully closed sheltered workshops to provide implementation strategies that they used according to each of the ten elements. This brief: (1) defines each element; (2) explains why it is valuable to the change process; and (3) offers a set of considerations to providers. [The production of this report was supported by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Advancing Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a project of ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).]
Institute for Community Inclusion. University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125. Tel: 617-287-4300; Fax: 617-287-4352; e-mail: ici@umb.edu; Web site: http://www.communityinclusion.org
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living (ACL)
Authoring Institution: University of Massachusetts Boston, Institute for Community Inclusion
Grant or Contract Numbers: 90RT5019; 90RT5028