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Employment

Documents:

• Empowerment Through Employment: Employment Resources Guide for Alaskans with Disabilities
  
• Alaskan Employer Perspectives on Hiring Individuals with Disabilities a follow up to the 2015 report Alaskan Employer Perspectives on Hiring Individuals with Disabilities. For an ADA compliant document please contact Lanny Mommsen.
  
• Alaska Transition Handbook Pathway to Adulthood & Employment
  
• Transition Service Plan
• Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD) Systems Assessment​ by Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority​
  
• Alaska Integrated Employment Initiative
• Alaska Employment Services Guide for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
• Employment First Bill, Alaska State Law
• Employment First Bill Legislative Packet
• Governor’s Proclamation on Disability Employment Awareness Month
• DVR Provisional Hire Pre-Posting Checklist (with new box so that all state hiring managers must consider this program before posting a position).
• DVR Provisional Hire Program Information
• CHD Preliminary Parent & Youth Survey Results
• DLC Preliminary Research Findings
• “Tools for Transitioning to Employment” PowerPoint presentation
• Peer Power (statewide self-advocacy organization) flyer
• Medicaid Buy-In Brochure
• Ticket to Work Job Center Brochure
• Social Security Administration 3 Biggest Myths Flyer

Employer Resource Documents:

• ​Lou Orslene (Vimeo video) SHRM Keynote Speaker 9/21/18

• 10 Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities
• Office of Disability Policy Employer Inclusive Workforce Guide
• Think Beyond the Label Resources:
• The Field Guide To Evolving Your Workforce
• 5 Myths Fact Sheet
• Best Practices Fact Sheet
• Tax Incentives Fact Sheet
• The Business Case Fact Sheet
• Guide for Businesses
• A Better Bottom Line: Employing People with Disabilities Brochure
• NACDD Section 503 Fact Sheet (regarding the 7% utilization goal for federal contractors in hiring people with disabilities).

Customized Employment PowerPoints:

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• Lesson 3
• Lesson 4
• Lesson 5
• Lesson 6
• Self-Employment PowerPoint
• Plan to Achieve Self Support (PASS) Plan PowerPoint
• For information on when these trainings are offered, please contact AIEI Training Coordinator, Roger Shelley at:
• Email: roger@alaskachd.org
• Phone: 1-406-445-9168

Links:

Transition Resources:

• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability (NCWD)’s website: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/
• Individualized Learning Plans (ILP) How-to Guide: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ilp/how-to-guide 

This has curriculum in the table of contents for integrating self-exploration, career exploration and career planning and management into the ILP. Soft skills, financial literacy and many other exciting facets are contained in this with example ILP activities as well.

• Engaging Youth in Work Experiences: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/innovative-strategies/practice-briefs/engaging-youth-in-work-experiences 
• Work-Based Learning Jump Start: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/work-based-learning 
• Family/Parent Resources:
• The 411 on Disability Disclosure: a Workbook for Youth with Disabilities: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/411-on-disability-disclosure 
• Career Exploration in Action: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/innovative-strategies/practice-briefs/career-exploration-in-action 
• Using Career Interest Inventories to Inform Career Planning: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/innovative-strategies/practice-briefs/using-career-interest-inventories-to-inform-career-planning 
• Using ILPs to Produce College and Career Ready High School Graduates: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ilp/produce-college-and-career-ready-high-school-graduates 
• Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Youth in Transition Resources: http://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills 
• Youth Job Center (Anchorage, AK): http://jobs.alaska.gov/youth/   http://jobs.alaska.gov/jobfairs/flyers/2013-06-18-Youth_Workshops.pdf
• Partners in Employment has a free online self-study course developed by the MN Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities to assist people with disabilities who want to become employed: http://mn.gov/mnddc/pipm/employment-ez/   

Project SEARCH:

• National Project SEARCH website: http://www.projectsearch.us/
• Mat-Su Project SEARCH at Mat-Su Regional: http://www.matsuk12.us/domain/78
• Anchorage Project SEARCH at Providence: http://alaska.providence.org/community/Pages/Finding-their-place.aspx
• Kenai Project SEARCH: http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/communications.aspx?id=27168

Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Beneficiary Employment Initiative: http://www.mhtrust.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=calendar.catalog_class&classid=72

Employer Resource Pages – Hiring Individuals with Disabilities:

• Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Employer Contact Info: http://www.labor.state.ak.us/dvr/home.htm#hire
• Job Center Contact Info:
• On the Job Training (OJT): http://jobs.alaska.gov/forms/OjtIntro-employer.html
• Business Connection: http://jobs.alaska.gov/employer.htm

 State of Alaska Employment Related Resources (Self-Advocates, Families, Providers & Educators):

• Job Center, http://jobs.alaska.gov/
• Ticket to Work Program http://www.jobs.state.ak.us/t2w/ 
• Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR): http://www.labor.state.ak.us/dvr/home.htm
• Division of Behavioral Health (DBH): http://dhss.alaska.gov/dbh/Pages/default.aspx
• Supported Employment Services: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dbh/Pages/Initiatives/supported_employment.aspx
• Division of Senior and Disabilities Services (DSDS): http://dhss.alaska.gov/dsds/Pages/default.aspx
• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Waiver Unit & Services: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dsds/Pages/dd/default.aspx
• Division of Public Assistance (DPA): http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/default.aspx
• Working Disabled Medicaid Buy-In Program 

• Trust Training Cooperative with Customized Employment and self-employment classes: http://trusttrainingcoop.org/training/aieip.html

Benefits Resources & Training:

• Center for Human Development Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (Alaska WIPA Project): http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/centerforhumandevelopment/wipa/
• The WIPA also has a list of the certified Community Work Incentive Coordinators (CWICs) for the State of Alaska.
• Social Security Administration 2014 Red Book – Resources to Assist You To Work: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/redbook/eng/resources-supports.htm

State of Alaska Provisional Hire Program:

• http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/StatewideHR/pdf/ProvisionalHireProgram.pdf
• http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/workplace/hiringManagerResources/