Ticket to Work Partners Summit

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Promoting WIPA Outreach for Employment Supports

• Ticket to Work Partners Summit
• March 12, 2008
• Louisville, KY

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This is a panel of WIPAs describing successful,
creative approaches of outreach and collaboration
with community partners. We will highlight
tangible strategies and panelists will share
examples of methods that have worked for their
WIPAs.
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This is a panel of WIPAs is made up of private
and governmental providersso hopefully you can
learn what to do when you return to your
community.
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South Carolina Innovations in Outreach for
Employment Supports
Tom Mayne, Community Work Incentive Coordinator
for the South Carolina Pathways Toward
Employment Program
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• South Carolina Developmental
  Disabilities and Special Needs Board
• Several different high schools and transition age
  youth
• Walgreen Distribution Center in Anderson, South
  Carolina

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Promoting Local connections
Brenda Etheridge, Director of Grants
Management Goodwill Industries of Greater
Detroit Goodwill Work Incentives Planning and
Assistance (WIPA) Project
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• Promoting Outreach for Employment Supports with
  Michigan Rehabilitation Services
• Promoting Outreach for Employment Supports with
  One Stop Career Centers
• Promoting Outreach for Employment Supports with
  Mental Health Programs
• Promoting Outreach for Employment Supports with
  United Way, Asset Building Coalition and the
  Internal Revenue Service

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CALL To WORK
Lavonzell Paige, Program Director Employment
Services Unit SSA Work Incentives Planning
Assistance Mayors Office for People with
Disabilities
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• CALL to Work Program
• Monthly meeting with Program Partners
• Referral System
• Convened a Monthly WIPA FORUM
• Targeted high poverty underserved populations

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Leveraging state National Resources to Advance
WIPA

• Karen Tefelski, Executive Director, vaACCSES
• Access to Economic Success (ATES)
• WIPA Project, Virginia

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• Leveraging National Grants in Your State
• Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (CMS)
• Disability Program Navigator Grant (DOL)
• Mental Health Systems Change Grant (CMS)
• System Transformation Grant (CMS)
• WIB Specialized Employment Grants (DOL)
• Money Follows the Person (CMS)
• Leveraging State Grants
• DD Council
• Leveraging State Initiatives
• Olmstead State Plans
• Health Human Resources VR State Plan
  MR-DD-MH State Plans Medicaid Agency