2. ACCESS TO ALL

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

4. The Dawn of Universal Access for One Stops

5. It Can be Dangerous Out There

6. Moon Watcher Hmm If We Only Worked Together

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

8. Lets Go in Together!!

9. Hmm We Just need the right tools

10. The Birth of Advocacy You will make the Waterhole Accessible

11. Hmm What About Employers

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

14. The Dawning of a New Age

15. Goals §Increased Employment Opportunities For People With Disabilities

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

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

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

19. 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

20. Walking Upright The Evolutionary Stages Collocation Communication Coordination Collaboration

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

22. What’s Wrong With This Picture

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

24. Coordination §Saving Time §Stretching Resources §Developing Experts

25. 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

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

27. Breaking Barriers

28. Navigating the System §Eleven Pilots §Running with Scissors

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

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

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

34. 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

35. 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! ”