Systems Change
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Strategy
Policy
Leadership
Funding
Outcome Data
Values
Capacity
Development
Innovation
Collaboration
Hall et al (2007)
Integrated
Jobs
100
Percent Employed
80
60
40
22-30
No Disability
16-21
22-30
16-21
Cognitive Disability
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0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
No Disability 16-21
Cognitive Disability 16-21
American Community Survey
No disability 22-30
Cognitive Disability 22-30
% Employed: IDD Agencies
National Core Indicators 2011-2012
% with Goal in Service Plan
National Core Indicators 2011-2012
VR Closures by Age at Application
RSA 911 FY2011 – Persons with ID
Percent Employed 2011
American Community Survey
Participation in integrated
employment services
ICI National Survey of State IDD Agencies FY 2011
Transition Service Integration Model
Certo et al. – California
The last day of school should be no different
than the day after
• Service delivery model shifts from public
school to integration across multiple
systems
• Schools integrate staff and resources with
community providers, state VR, state DD
Employment & Young Adults
American Community Survey
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www.StateData.info
Percent with Diploma or GED 2011
American Community Survey
www.StateData.info
Washington
Jobs by 21 Partnership Project
MOU with key partners:
Schools, DVR, DDD, providers, students,
parents, parent organizations, employers,
Work Source Center, WIA youth service
providers, community and technical colleges,
self-advocacy groups, …
Transition Councils or inter-agency groups
Adult employment provider participation
Missouri – Show Me Careers
• Business engagement
• Guideposts of success (http://www.ncwd-youth.info)
• Using demos to scale up best practices
• State employment director
• 12 regional employment specialists
• Participating in AIDD Family Community of Practice
• www.showmecareers.org
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Iowa
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ODEP Employment First Leadership Mentor Project
Coalition for Integrated Employment
Outcome measurement system
Increase capacity of providers for SE/CE
Messaging: Targeting case managers
Rate studies, extensive communication with
stakeholders to obtain buy in
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Wisconsin-Let’s Get to Work
9 school pilot sites-75% increase in employment outcomes
Policy development focus
Parent videos to build parental expectations
VR funds $500 for youth experiences for all eligible youth
VR capacity building 20 business consultants
http://www.letsgettoworkwi.org/
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Alaska Integrated Employment
Initiative
• Increase youth employment with IDD in VR from 20-25%
and hours from 13-20/week
• Business engagement
• Youth participation
• Mental Health Trust Authority funding
large scale employment initiative
• http://alaskaworksinitiative.org/index.html
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New York
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Common assessment tool for VR and DD
NY OPWDD transformation agenda
Facilitates relationships among state agencies
Project Search replication
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Mississippi
• Employment First Executive Order
• Customized employment, transition and Gathering
Grounds demos
• Youth engagement
• Waiver definition changes to competitive
employment
• http://www.mspeidd.org/
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Tennessee Works
• ODEP EFMSLP
• Family survey
• Executive Order in 2013 for Employment First
policy
• Cross agency data collection system
• Detailed MOU development
• Community conversations
• http://tennesseeworks.org/
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Partnership Project
Employment Outcomes
• Participants more likely to earn wages in 3
months before graduation
• Participants were more likely to earn wages in
3 months after graduation
• Participants were more likely to have long
term employment supports in place, and
those who did earned higher wages than NonParticipants
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• System change requires focus on several
distinct systems areas (federal & state)
• Collaborations across agency build foundation
• Gaining state agency leader involvement takes
tenacity
• National momentum for employment is
helping to fuel states’ efforts
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We Are Learning
• Youth and family involvement at all levels of systems change is
key--- and makes change sustainable
• Families need to hear employment message early in their
child’s life to build an expectation of success
• VR engagement starts early—ages 14-16;
• Capacity building is necessary (teachers, rehab counselors,
employment specialists, support coordinators, provider
agencies)
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We Are Learning
• Post secondary education, vocational ed and
other college experiences valued by
individuals and employers
• Connection between disability world and
employers needs work
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Federal Government Pushing
Change
• CMS guidelines
• Department of Justice (RI Consent Decree)
• Workforce Innovations and Improvement Act
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A Tale of 3 States
• Oregon
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
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Partnerships in Employment
Karen Flippo
Institute for Community Inclusion
University of Massachusetts, Boston
www.partnershipsinemployment.com
Karen.Flippo@umb.edu
617-287-4344
Barbara Brent
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities
Services
bbrent@nasddds.org
703-896-0043
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