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DATE: Oct. 10,
2016
TO: Lead agency staff and other
interested stakeholders
FROM: DHS Disability Services Division in collaboration with Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) and Department of Education (MDE)
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
PURPOSE OF eLIST: Share an opportunity to provide input on cross-agency
work related to employment
CONTACT: DSD.EmploymentFirst@state.mn.us
We want to hear stories and examples of how various state
agencies have worked together to create employment opportunities for people
with disabilities.
We want you to tell your story and help us identify
programs that are working or not working. Having examples of local agency
collaboration efforts will help state agencies understand what needs to change
at the state level to support competitive, integrated employment.
Examples
Here are some examples of stories you might share:
- Have you seen a time when Vocational
Rehabilitation Services (VRS), a county and/or a school combined creatively to help
a person with disability achieve employment?
- Have you experienced a time when there were barriers
to helping a person gain employment because policies or the funding structures
between VRS, counties and/or high schools didn’t align?
How to submit your story
If you have a story to share,
please complete this story
template, DHS-7279 (PDF) and return it using the submit button on Page 4 of the form.
The more details you provide about the
situation (e.g., the specific services provided and for how long, etc.), the
better. It will help the committee understand the scenario and begin work to
break down gaps and/or barriers.
Visit CBSM — What's New page often for a list of policies/pages we've recently updated in the DSD Community-Based Services Manual.
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