ODEP News Brief - October 19, 2018
United States Department of Labor sent this bulletin at 10/19/2018 12:07 PM EDT
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October 19, 2018 Financial Security Webinar — October 30 from 3:30-5:00 PM ETThe U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) are presenting a webinar in celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It is titled "Get Empowered — Make the Most of Your Job and Improve Your Financial Security: Building Financial Solutions for People with Disabilities." In the webinar, ODEP discusses ways to improve financial security through Social Security work incentive programs that protect your federal benefits, and the use of ABLE accounts to save for future goals. EBSA provides information on setting and achieving financial goals, budgeting, managing debt, and determining a target retirement saving rate so you can make the most of your workplace-provided retirement plan. • Register for the "Get Empowered" webinar Apprenticeship OpportunitiesODEP announced the award of a $1.9 million contract to develop pilot projects focused on apprenticeship opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities in high-growth industries. ODEP awarded a two-year contract to Social Policy Research Associates Inc. (SPRA) of Oakland, California, to research, develop, test, and evaluate innovative strategies in existing apprenticeship programs that provide skills training to people with disabilities. Efforts will specifically focus on quality pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship pilots in high-growth industries, such as information technology, healthcare, and emerging sectors. SPRA will document and share best practices so that other apprenticeship efforts may replicate promising approaches. • Read the Apprenticeship Opportunities news release NDEAM Twitter Chat for Youth — October 24 from 7:30-8:30 PM ETThe National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) invites youth as well as professionals and families to participate in a #NDEAM Twitter Chat. This discussion with youth leaders will focus on ways to support youth with disabilities as they make decisions about, prepare for, and transition to employment. Alumni of the National Youth Action Council on Transition (YouthACT) are collaborating with NCWD/Youth to host this chat. To participate, follow NCWD/Youth on Twitter at @ncwdyouth_iel and use the hashtag #NDEAM. • Learn about YouthACT JAN Training ModulesThe Job Accommodation Network (JAN) has developed two new Just-in-Time training modules for its online Workplace Accommodation Toolkit, which provides employers with the tools needed to create a more disability-inclusive and compliant workplace. A wide array of resources are available in the toolkit for recruiters, hiring managers, supervisors, reasonable accommodation subject matter experts, employees, and co-workers. The new modules address retention of an individual with an intellectual disability after a supervisor change, and promotion of an individual who is deaf into a leadership position. Each scenario culminates in a solution to the situation posed. Videos showing the accommodations and solutions are accompanied by a slide presentation providing salient learning points from the video. • View the Just-in-Time training modules Inclusion@WorkBrett Sheats, national project director of the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) wrote an article for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) called "Inclusion@@Work Framework Helps HR Empower All." "Sheats reflected on the National Disability Employment Awareness Month theme, "America's Workforce: Empowering All' and what it means for businesses nationwide. He also discussed EARN's "Inclusion@@Work" framework that assists employers to create a disability-inclusive workplace. "We must ensure that the U.S. workforce empowers all because the opportunity to work and contribute is at the heart of the country's defining spirit of self-determination," said Sheats. |
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