Disability Employment Initiative MYTHS Good Day This is your Disability Employment Initiative MYTHS Training ENJOY Click here to begin

Our One-Stop Career Center became an Employment Network (EN) and has all of the tools and resources to address the needs of Ticket Holders in attaining employment-related milestones and outcomes. Choose the answer that best reflects your response to the above statement: Just the other day our One-Stop replaced a broken chair, repaired a leaky bathroom faucet and removed a computer virus. As an EN, we just need to accept the Ticket and develop a plan for employment and then the Ticket Holder needs to get a job. This is true as long as we have a strong partnership with a Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Project or are developing internal expertise in this area.

If this was your answer, this is going to be a long 30-Second Training…. While these things need to be fixed and do help to ensure a smooth running Center, these are not exactly the tools and resources to which we are referring. Please try again! Go Back

Kind of…sort of… but there is more. In order for One-Stops to meet SSA’s defined milestones and outcomes, Ticket Holders will need a clear understanding about what this will mean to their livelihoods. Please try again! Someone at SSA really needs to write a “For Dummies” book on Ticket!

CORRECT!!! For more information refer to DEI Myth #6. Employment Networks (ENs) do not necessarily need to be the experts in all of the variables that impact a Ticket Holder’s benefits, although some areas are choosing to develop internal expertise. In either case, your One-Stop/EN does need to work in close collaboration with professionals in your communities, such as Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) projects who employ trained benefits specialists called Community Work Incentive Coordinators (CWIC’s). If your One-Stops/ENs assign Ticket Holders without initially connecting them to a benefits specialist, you not only run the risk of not reaching payment milestones due to Ticket Holders leaving jobs for fear of losing or real loss of cash benefits and/or insurance, but you will also have impeded the right of individuals to make informed choices that can greatly impact their health, career and financial livelihoods. For more information refer to DEI Myth #6. End Show