1 Stakeholder Consultation Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Department of Labor (DOL) DRAFT Strategic Plan FY Draft: February 22, 2010

ODEP Overview  ODEP – Mission: The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides national leadership by developing and influencing disability employment- related policies and practices affecting an increase in the employment of people with disabilities. – Leadership: Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary – Organization:  52 FTE in the National and Regional Offices  Current FY 2010 Resources: $ 39,031,000

ODEP Goals ODEP supports the following Department of Labor Strategic Goals and Outcome Goals:  Strategic Goal 1: Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation. – Increase workers’ incomes and narrowing wage and income inequality. – Assure skills and knowledge that prepare workers to succeed in a knowledge-based economy, including in high-growth and emerging industry sectors like “green” jobs. – Help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle class jobs. – Help middle-class families remain in the middle class.  Strategic Goal 3: Assure fair and high quality work-life environments. – Break down barriers to fair and diverse workplaces so that every worker’s contribution is respected. – Ensure worker voice in the workplace.  Strategic Goal 4: Secure health benefits and, for those not working, provide income security. – Improve health benefits and retirement security for all workers. – Facilitate return to work for workers experiencing workplace injuries or illnesses who are able to work and sufficient income and medical care for those who are unable to work.  Strategic Goal 5: Foster fair working conditions in the global marketplace. – Assure that global markets are governed by fair market rules that protect vulnerable people, including women and children, and provide workers a fair share of their productivity and voice in their work lives.

ODEP Results  We are measuring results differently. – ODEP recognizes that determining the impact of policy change takes years. Therefore, ODEP will measure its efforts through a continuum of short-term, intermediate, long-term and strategic performance measures.  How will we measure success? – Short-term: Number of policy outputs, formal agreements and effective practices – Intermediate: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers adopting ODEP identified disability employment related policy and practices. – Long-term: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers implementing ODEP identified disability employment-related policy and practices. – Strategic Impact: Number of workers with disabilities: served and trained through the One Stop system and exiting with minimum wage jobs retained for six months or longer; employed by Federal contractors; employed by and accommodated within Federal agencies; returning to work under FECA; and benefiting from ODEP policies and policy strategies in partner countries within the European Union.  Do you believe these are the right outcomes?  Do you believe these are the right measures for those outcomes?

ODEP Strategies  We are using new approaches. – ODEP will undertake critical inter-agency policy development and policy strategy activities, as well as public-private partnerships, to improve the labor force participation of all people with disabilities.  Our strategies to achieve these goals include: – Leverage incentives and reduce disincentives to securing “good jobs.” – Increase Federal workforce participation and make the government a model employer. – Ensure the availability of and access to universally usable workplace technology. – Increase and improve access to Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs. – Reduce discrimination, ensure civil rights protections, and promote affirmative hiring programs and authorities. – Improve return-to-work outcomes. – Increase integrated employment at minimum wage or above. – Transition returning wounded and injured service members to “good jobs.” – Improve employment outcomes for diverse populations, including women, minorities and transition age youth with disabilities.  Do these strategies make sense to you?

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