PARTNERING FOR ONE STOP ACCESSIBILITY

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PARTNERING FOR ONE STOP ACCESSIBILITY

• Presented to
• The Heartland Conference
• April, 2003
• Presented by
• Steve Savage,
• Indianapolis Private Industry Council
• Doug Bebee,
• Indiana Office of Vocational Rehabilitation

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Agenda

• Part I
• Partners With ?
• And With...
• Part II
• Why Partner With One Stops?
• What Have We Learned So Far?
• Supports
• Part II
• What In It For You and Your Agency?
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities Threats
  
• Q A

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Work Incentive Grant Partners
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Employer Partnerships

• Business Leadership Network
• Employer Summit - October 2002
• Local Employers learned about
• Proactive Hiring, BLNs, VR, Technology
• 20 Employers, Bank One Leadership
• Manpower
• Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
• Indianapolis Human Resources Council

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Other Partners

• The Indianapolis Mayors Office on Disability
  Affairs
• Indiana Workforce Development
• Lifelong Learning Institute
• Indiana University
• Institute on Disability and Community

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Why Partner with One Stops?

• WHY?
• Access and Integration
• Civil Rights
• Job and Unemployment
• Typical Places and Research
• The One Stop Concept
• WIA and Universal Accessibility

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Why Partner with One Stops? (Cont.)

• Laws
• WIA and the Rehabilitation Act
• Grants
• Work Incentive Grants
• Customized Employment
• Business Driven Connections
• BLN

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What Have We Learned?(So Far!)

• Building Relationships
• MOUs, WIGs,
• The Mayors Office
• Life Long Learning and
• People
• One Stop TEAMS
• Department of Labor
• Funding, Grants and Outcomes

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What Have We Learned?(So Far!)

• Welcoming and Awareness
• How does it work?
• DRS and Navigators
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Training, Training and more Training
• PATH and Strategic Planning
• To Segregate or not to Segregate?
• To be or not to be...

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SupportsPeople, Places and Things

• Lifelong Learning Institute
• Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
• ICI
• DBTACS
• WWWs
• Manuals and ...

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Whats in it For You?

• SWOT
• Your agency and the One Stops
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats

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Where will you start?

• Short Term
• __________________________________________________
  ___________________________________

• Long Term
• __________________________________________________
  ___________________________________

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CONTACTS US _at_

• IPIC
• Steve Savage
• ssavage_at_ipic.org
• insack_at_aol.com
• 317-684-2256
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Doug Bebee
• Dbebee_at_fssa.state.in.us
• 317-781-3745
• Department of Workforce Development
• Carol Baker
• cbaker_at_dwd.state.in.us
• 317-232-7670

• Goodwill of Central Indiana
• Ken Fairfield
• Kfairfield_at_goodwill-indy.org
• -317-524-4312
• Easterseals/Crossroads
• Patrick Sandy
• Psandy_at_X-roads.org
• 317-466-2015