Law, Health Policy & Disability Center
University of Iowa College of Law
http://disability.law.uiowa.edu/dpn/
and
The Burton Blatt Institute
Syracuse University
http://bbi.syr.edu
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Resources of the Week Technical Assistance Project E–Mail listserv
21 September 2007
Good morning everyone,
Below please find the web site and publication of the week, as well as other resources that we hope will be useful as you work on systems change activities to help improve employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.
To subscribe and / or view past resources of the week archives, access: www.onestoptoolkit.org and click on the link to "Resources of the Week" on the right hand side of the home page.
To view an indexed list of the resources of the week by subject matter, visit the L.P.H.D.C. web site at http://disability.law.uiowa.edu/lhpdc/resources/wig/default.asp. It currently includes 20 categories, covering over 300 annotated references. Each category opens to a new window with each Resource of the Week which covered material in that area.
Have a good day and weekend!
Laura (Farah) Gleneck
Program Associate
Law, Health Policy & Disability Center
University of Iowa College of Law
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[The full National Anti-Stigma Campaign announcement is located under the section heading "For Your Information/Action."]
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (http://www.dol.gov/odep/faqs/ndeam.htm) and Disability Mentoring Day (http://www.dmd-aapd.org/). It is not too early to start planning an event or activity that you can launch in October to add to the collective efforts that will take place across the country. Particularly consider how you can participate in National Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) on October 17!! Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is an annual observance, created by a presidential proclamation in 1986 to recognize “the urgent need to educate the American public about mental illnesses and their treatments,” and in recognition of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ efforts to raise mental illness awareness. MIAW activities will be held across the country from October 7-13, 2007. During this week, millions of Americans will honor the challenges of mental illness, as well as celebrate the recoveries they or their loved ones have embraced.
Navigators, it is that time of year again to start preparing for the 2007 National Disability Employment Awareness Month and Disability Mentoring Day. Over the years, DOL and LHPDC have been really inspired by the different activities and events communities have planned to raise awareness during these national annual events. To help you begin to spread the message, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy has copies of the 2007 National Disability Employment Awareness Month poster available, which depict this year’s theme, Workers with Disabilities: Talent for a Winning Team. In addition to its representation of the national NDEAM theme, this poster is popular throughout the year in connection with events that foster employment opportunities for workers with disabilities.
The print copy of this poster is available in either a 20” x 30” and/or a 10” x 15” size. Please send your request to E–mail NDEAM@dol.gov. You may also download a PDF version of the 2007 poster from the website at http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/ndeam07.htm. We look forward to learning about your October activities.
MIAW provides an opportunity to bring the National Anti-Stigma Campaign (NASC) into your community and to the attention of your local media. How can you focus on the NASC during MIAW?
To spread the word about the NASC, order free materials from
SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center (NMHIC).
You can access a list of materials on the NASC Web site at [ http://www.whatadifference.org/docs/NASCListofMaterials_08_22_07.pdf ].
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Due to shipping delays, contact NMHIC as soon as possible. If you are interested in ordering fewer than 100 copies of any material, please call NMHIC at 1-800-789-2647. If you would like to receive more than 100 copies of any material, please fax a request on your letterhead to 1-240-221-4295. Make sure to note the reason for your large order and let NMHIC know that you need the material by October 7th. Please keep in mind that orders may take several weeks to arrive.
Please contact the NASC Liaison, America Doria-Medina (E–mail America.Doria-Medina@macrointernational.com) or Elizabeth Edgar (E–mail nasc-liaison@nami.org), if you have any questions or need assistance.
Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is an annual observance, created by a presidential proclamation in 1986 to recognize “the urgent need to educate the American public about mental illnesses and their treatments,” and in recognition of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ efforts to raise mental illness awareness. MIAW activities will be held across the country from October 7-13, 2007. During this week, millions of Americans will honor the challenges of mental illness, as well as celebrate the recoveries they or their loved ones have embraced.
MIAW provides an opportunity to bring the National Anti-Stigma Campaign (NASC) into your community and to the attention of your local media. How can you focus on the NASC during MIAW?
To spread the word about the NASC, order free materials from
SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center (NMHIC).
You can access a list of materials on the NASC Web site at [ http://www.whatadifference.org/docs/NASCListofMaterials_08_22_07.pdf ]
[ Get free Adobe Reader ].
Due to shipping delays, contact NMHIC as soon as possible. If you are interested in ordering fewer than 100 copies of any material, please call NMHIC at 1-800-789-2647. If you would like to receive more than 100 copies of any material, please fax a request on your letterhead to 1-240-221-4295. Make sure to note the reason for your large order and let NMHIC know that you need the material by October 7th. Please keep in mind that orders may take several weeks to arrive.
Please contact the NASC Liaison, America Doria-Medina (E–mail America.Doria-Medina@macrointernational.com) or Elizabeth Edgar (E–mail nasc-liaison@nami.org), if you have any questions or need assistance.
Speaker: Deb Russell, Walgreen Company
To celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the JAN/US BLN Webcast series features the Walgreen Company's commitment to hiring people with disabilities. The Walgreen Company is the nation’s largest drugstore chain and the 7th largest retailer. Walgreen's success story will be presented by Ms. Deb Russell who oversees the company’s commitment to hiring people with disabilities in their latest and all future distribution centers. The first of these centers opened in January 2007. In this Webcast session, Ms. Russell presents Walgreen's plans and the early outcomes this effort, including lessons learned.
REGISTRATION: Note a fee is required to participate in this event.
Access the URL. Early registration is recommended. All registrants will receive training materials for each session, which will be sent via e-mail three to five business days prior to the scheduled event. These materials will be in an accessible format and may include Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe PDF files.
Any registered participant who does not have access to e-mail should indicate this at the time of registration, and training materials will be sent via postal mail. When requesting postal mail, please indicate if alternate format (large print, computer file, or Braille) is needed and what format you prefer. One set of materials will be mailed per registration.
The fee for each webcast is $35.00 per computer accessing the training. All fees must be paid prior to the event.
For more information about this Webcasts or others in the series go to:
[ http://www.jan.wvu.edu/webcast/ ]
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To fully understand Personal Assistance Services (PAS) as a workplace support, it is important to understand its evolution from an institutional based service to a community based service and how it has emerged as a valuable workplace support. Factors contributing to this evolution were the Civil Rights Movement, Disability Rights Legislation, and Public Policy Initiatives.
Most important was the 1976 Reauthorization of the Rehabilitation Act Amendment giving birth to the Independent Living Movement which established Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and trained participants how to choose and direct their own services.
Not until the rise of the corporation at the turn of the twentieth century, did wage employment take precedence over personal enterprise in the United States. Today, a new economic shift is bringing more and more people back into business ownership. Currently, 20 million business owners operate one-person companies.
Annually, almost 700,000 new businesses are started in the United States. In 2004, the Small Business Administration reported that 12.2 percent of the general population chose self-employment. In contrast, a slightly higher number or 14.3 percent of people with disabilities started businesses (SBA, 2004).
This website maps Federal youth resources in each community to help you locate the concentration of youth and federal resources. Obtaining data about your community is critical to completing the tasks on this website. This tool will help you learn about your community by providing important youth related census data and location maps. This tool makes it simple to define your community and select the data you need in a format you can easily use.
Communities can also identify the location of Federal programs that serve youth. This tool will help you track existing grants and programs in your community as you plan your initiative. It will also help you identify what additional resources may be needed and the best location for providing services.
To get started, click the GO button or to learn more about how to use the tool click on the VIEW DEMO button.
The community guide has been developed through the coordination of ten Federal agencies.
This website is sponsored by the Postsecondary Education Research Center (PERC) project, which is coordinated by TransCen, Inc. On this site you can find links to internet resources; answers to frequently asked questions related to developing or expanding services for students with intellectual disabilities in college settings; specific information on the two PERC project sites in Maryland and Connecticut; and much more!
Economic, medical, technological, and social changes have increased opportunities for persons with disabilities to live with greater independence and more fully participate in the workforce. In addition, social and legal changes have promoted the goal of greater inclusion of persons with disabilities in the mainstream of society. However, GAO’s reviews of the largest federal disability programs indicate that such programs have not evolved in line with these larger societal changes and, therefore, are poorly positioned to provide meaningful and timely support for persons with disabilities. Furthermore, program enrollment and costs for the largest federal disability programs have been growing and are poised to grow even more rapidly in the future. For these reasons, GAO added modernizing federal disability to its high-risk areas in January 2003. GAO convened this forum to address some of the key issues related to modernizing federal disability policy. The forum brought together a diverse array of experts, including employers; advocate groups, researchers, and academia; and federal officials.
Forum participants were asked to discuss over three sessions, what’s working well and what needs to be improved in federal disability programs, how to strengthen partnerships and coordination for modernizing programs, and ways to modernize measures of program success. Participants also considered the next steps to achieving a 21st century disability policy.
Participants suggested a number of steps that could be taken by stakeholders to inform the debate to help move current policy toward achieving a 21st century disability policy. Some participants suggested evaluating work incentives and disincentives and the coordination efforts between public and private sector disability entities; others suggested developing a definition of disability and standard language that could be shared across related programs; and many suggested establishing various program outcome indicators and data reporting requirements to track them.
To the extent that federal disability programs are aligned with 21st century realities, benefits can be achieved for individuals with disabilities, business, and government. Solutions are likely to require fundamental changes, including regulatory and legislative action. Without federal leadership at this critical time to lead this transformation, there could be fewer options in the future available to policymakers seeking to improve federal disability programs. As the country moves forward, the fiscal implications of any new actions—as well as the cost of keeping the status quo—must be considered.
The annual Digest of Education Statistics provides a compilation of statistical information covering American education from pre–kindergarten through graduate school. It includes data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics. It contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for education; libraries; and international comparisons.