1. Why Employment Matters Alliance for Full Participation Summit 2011 December, 2011

2. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices  What do we know?  What do we want?  What can we do?

3. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What do we know?

4. Lives in Household Below Poverty Threshold – 2009 American Community Survey

5. Getting out of Poverty Having a Job

6. Employment participation 2009 Percent Working American Community Survey

7. Like Everyone Else Having a Job

8. Trends over Time: Total Served and Integrated Employment Nationally ICI IDD Agency Survey

9. Employment and Day Supports: National ICI IDD Agency Survey

10. What We Need Having a Job

11. Mean Wage/Week National Core Indicators Project 2008-2009

12. Getting More Earnings Having a Job

13. State DD agency successes in integrated employment varies widely ICI IDD Agency Survey

14. States VR Agency successes Vary – (Rehabilitation Rate) Persons with ID - RSA 911 – 2007 States

15. Supply and Demand in Future Years (NE Fed Reserve 2010) 2010 those entering the workforce will be 10% greater than those leaving 2020 those entering the workforce will be 15% smaller than those leaving The workforce will be more diverse and have more older workers in 2015 37.4% of total employment will be low skilled workers From 2009 thru 2018 a growth rate of 11.9% in low skilled jobs (health, food, personal care, construction and production)

16. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What do we want? (Expectations for Employment)

17. NLTS2 Students: I will eventually get a paid job

18. What Youth Want Having a Job

19. Participant Prefers employment outside of workshop Migliore (2006)

20. What People in Workshops Want Having a Job

21. Promoting Employment First Policies and Practices What can we do? (A time for a change)

22. Employment First: Realities and Expectations What Do We Mean By Employment First?

23. Employment First: Essential Elements  Presumption of Employment for ALL  A Series of Policies, Procedures and Practices  Outcomes Competitive Integrated Employment

24. Competitive Integrated Employment: Essential Elements  Paid at the minimum or prevailing wage  Similar benefits to all  Opportunity to continuously interact with co-workers without disabilities  Chances for advancement  Preferably full time

25. What is the Outcome Having a Job

26. Practices that Have Worked  Person centered and directed services and supports  Postsecondary education  National Service  Apprenticeship and internships  Technology: Electronic job development

27. Are We there Yet? The employment participation rate for persons with disabilities (20.7% currently) is the same as that for persons without disabilities (71.9% currently) My goal is 71.9% employment participation for all

28. What Matters HAVING A JOB

29. Why Employment Matters William E. Kiernan, Ph.D., Director Institute for Community Inclusion University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125 617-287-4311 william.kiernan@umb.edu www.communityinclusion.org