ACCESS TO ALL

Universal Access Are We serving Martians? Glenn Olsen High Risk Population Specialist Department of Workforce Development

The Dawn of Universal Access for One Stops

It Can be Dangerous Out There

Moon Watcher Hmm If We Only Worked Together

Look They Call That Giant Monolith A Job Center We are Afraid to Go In!!!!

Lets Go in Together!!

Hmm We Just need the right tools

The Birth of Advocacy You will make the Waterhole Accessible

Hmm What About Employers

Don’t Forget to Include People with Disabilities From the Beginning

The Dawning of a New Age

Goals §Increased Employment Opportunities For People With Disabilities

Who Am I Talking to?? §WIA §DVR §SILC §CILs §CBOs §Advocacy Groups §Disability Agencies

Barriers §Architectural §Programmatic §Attitudinal §Legal §Systemic §Communications

Universal Access §Basic Tenet of Workforce Investment Act §Serving the masses §Physical Vs. programmatic §Still need individualized approaches §Technical Assistance §What you can do!

Medical Model §The Problem—Person with condition §Core of Problem—In the person §Actions of Paradigm— Classify/congregate/treat §Power Person— Expert (doctor) §Goal of Paradigm—Fix/heal/change

Walking Upright The Evolutionary Stages Collocation Communication Coordination Collaboration

Collocation §Not in My State §Is it Necessary §Moral Dilemmas

What’s Wrong With This Picture

Communication §Empathy §Truly Understanding §Joint Workgroups §Input From the Beginning

Coordination §Saving Time §Stretching Resources §Developing Experts

Why Collaborate? §Provide better, more comprehensive service to families §Pooling resources and grants often require collaboration §Make our jobs easier! §Get out of “silos,” reduce duplication of services

Suggestions for Collaboration §WIIFM §Cross Training §Build Relationships §Patience §Outreach materials to culture of target audience

Breaking Barriers

Navigating the System §Eleven Pilots §Running with Scissors

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Other Successes §Jobline §VRS/VRI §Accessible Workstations §Nextalk §Operation One Stop §WIG

Operation One Stop §Program and Physical Accessibility §Teams of trained facilitators §Not a self assessment §Fair/Unbiased reporting

Results §Plan of Action §Technical Assistance available §Potential funding options §Clarified roles §Better Customer service

Wisconsin’s One-Stop Disability Initiative: The Last Stop to Employment “Set...” “Set...” Employers will be better educated on how they can benefit their bottom line by: “Ready...” “Ready...” WI Job Centers will offer employers: trained counselors statewide support and resources attitudinal and workshop trainings connections to disability community drawing on employer- to-employer linkages utilizing assistive technology integrating staff successfully

Services more widely available to approximately 260,000 un- or underemployed Wisconsinites with disabilities: disability-friendly employer resources disability oriented job assistance disability job fairs “Go! ”