advancing employment for individuals with idd
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Advancing Employment for Individuals with IDD Creating a comprehensive model for change
July, 2015
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Holistic Perspective
State Policy
& Strategy
Community
Rehabilitation
Provider
Practices
Individuals &
Families
Employment
Supports
Individual
Employment
Outcomes
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Holistic Perspective
Federal Policy
Community
& Labor
Market
Workplace
State Policy
& Strategy
Community
Rehabilitation
Provider
Practices
Individuals &
Families
Employment
Supports
Individual
Employment
Outcomes
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Where it fits: ICI Affiliated Projects
RRTC on Advancing
Employment
Access to Integrated Employment
AIDD
Research & Evaluation Systems Change
Partnerships in Employment Systems
Change / AIDD
Employment Learning Community
AIDD RRTC Demand Side Strategies / NIDRR Florida EmployME First
Florida DD Council
RTAC VR Program Management / NIDRR
ExploreVR.org NIDRR
College of Employment Services
AT Programs Data Center RSA
Employment Consultants’ Role NIDRR: RRTC/CL
Job-Driven Vocational Rehabilitation TA Center
RSA
Training
Service
ICI Employment Services DDS, MRC, Schools
State Employment Leadership Network
Member funded
Community Life Engagement / NIDRR
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Employment is a lifelong conversation and information and support are available on a “just in time” basis
Types and pathways for information and support are effective and accessible
Strand 1•Individuals and Families
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What we know
Young adults with IDD expect to work
Families shape expectations around employment
Families provide logistical support
Family knowledge around employment is limited
Systems have a hard time interacting with families
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Approach
Scoping Literature
Online/In-person Focus Groups
Develop and test a strategy that
Engages individuals and families early and often
Focuses on the best ways to provide just the right amount of information at just the right point in time
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“…Regardless of the job seeker’s level of motivation, skill, experience, attitude, and support system, his or her ability to get a job will often depend on the effectiveness of employment specialists…
Simply stated, if (the employment specialists) are good, job seekers get jobs. If they are not, the barriers to employment for job seekers can become insurmountable…”
(Luecking et al., 2004, p. 29)
Strand 2 • Improving employment supports: Achieving consistent implementation of best practice
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28%
12%
10%
9%
9%
7%
6%
5%
5%
5%
3%
1%
Adm duties (e.g. office work, meetings, etc)
Other
Reviewing job ads in newspapers, internet,…
At JS' workplace (e.g., job coaching,…
With job seekers for career planning
Traveling with job seeker
At work sites for job exploration
With case managers, other professionals
Outreach not on behalf of a specific JS
With employers for job dev. negot.
With employers, after hire
With family members/acquaintances
Percentage of weekly hours spent in support activities by 49 employment consultants over a period of two weeks
Limited implementation of best practices
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53%
53%
53%
51%
39%
34%
33%
27%
18%
16%
Reviewed classified ads
Made cold calls to employers
Approached past employers
Attended business events*
Asked employers about related businesses
Involved family members or acquaintances
Knocked on doors of businesses*
Negotiated job descriptions
Searched without referrals in mind*
One-Stop Career Centers
Percentage of employment consultants performing job search activities for most or all job seekers (N=163; 28 states)
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Multi – element interventions improve outcomes
5.5 jobs 7.8 jobs
(+2.3)
Training &
Mentorship
5.2 jobs 4.1 jobs
(-1.1)
Con
trol
Inte
rven
tion
Higher Hourly earnings: + $1 (p<.10)
Higher weekly work hours: + 6.7 (p<.05) Butterworth et al, 2012
Baseline Post Baseline
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Strand 2 • Employment Supports
A flexible model that accounts for variations in individual preference and need
A scalable approach to improving employment outcomes
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Approach
Study 2.1. Learning from outstanding, employment consultants:
Interviewing 16 employment consultants, job seekers, family members, and supervisors
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Study 2.2. Improving the implementation of effective employment support practices:
Randomized trial 100 employment consultants
• online training
• data-based performance feedback
• peer supports
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Activity Log for Smart Phone
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1. What key benchmarks do you watch?
2. How do you track progress in implementing effective employment support practices?
Community conversation
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Strand 3 • Community Rehabilitation Providers
To understand CRP characteristics that promote transformation
Provide tools to CRPs to enable change
Model for supporting organizational restructuring in an efficient/scalable way
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Supporting CRPs to Evolve Their Service Delivery Framework
Through:
Creation and assessment of a model framework for building the capacity of CRPs,
Development of a toolkit to guide organizational transformation to provide high-quality integrated employment services, and
Demonstration of an efficient scalable strategy (a facilitated, peer-to-peer learning community) for supporting organizational transformation across networks of CRPs.
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Toolkit Pilot Testing
Through the Chapters of The Arc the Strand 3 team will use a combination of key informant interviews and an on-line survey in order to comprehensively field-test the CRP Organizational Transformation Toolkit. The establishment of field-tested products will lead to a scaling-up of practices to ensure proper design and effectiveness.
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Provider Employment Leadership Network (PELN)
The PELN will incorporate guided self-assessment, the development of goals and an action plan, and sharing and learning with CRP peers using a facilitated community of practice (COP). It is a cost-effective scalable intervention that supports CRPs to transform and rebalance their organizations to prioritize integrated employment.
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Provider Employment Leadership Network (PELN)
Members will attend the annual PELN Leadership Institute in Washington, DC hosted by The ARC. The Institute will emphasize the goals of peer relationship building, sharing self-assessment results, and collaborative organizational work plan development. The summit’s content will be based on the toolkit sections.
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How Chapters of The Arc Can Be Involved
Through:
Creation and assessment of a model framework for building the capacity of CRPs,
Development of a toolkit to guide organizational transformation to provide high-quality integrated employment services, and
Demonstration of an efficient scalable strategy (a facilitated, peer-to-peer learning community) for supporting organizational transformation across networks of CRPs.
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Strand 4 • Aligning policy and practice at the state level across agencies
National policy
Expansion of Employment First policies
44 states with initiatives
32 states with policy or directive
But…
Inconsistent and competing priorities
Integration across systems
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High-Performing Framework
www.thinkwork.org
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Understand the essential components of high performing cross-agency employment service systems
Systems intentionally align practices with a priority for employment and bring components to scale
Strand 4 • State Policy and Practice
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State IDD agency policy and practices: Policy analyses
Service definitions: Changing CMS rules and expectations on community and employment
Case management guidelines and strategies
Managing service quality and fading of supports
Interagency collaboration with VR and Education
Engaging individuals and families
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Planning for Organizational Change
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T-TAP Lessons Learned
Goals
Resources
Whole Person
Partnerships Expectations
Organizational
Change
Outcomes
Just Do It
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What’s Your BHAG?
60 jobs in 2006
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100% of individuals supported …
Work in “integrated” settings.
Are compensated for work performed;
Work at least 80% of the days and/or hours in their Individual Plans;
Receive ongoing Career Planning and Development
Have a contingency plan for layoffs and terminations
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What are your program goals?
For employment?
For community engagement?
Other?
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Communicate Expectations
Policy
Outreach
Celebration
Terminology
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Policy
We will only support individuals in individual jobs
We will not accept new referrals to our workshop
We will target community employment for all new referrals
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Inclusion - The Arc Policies Related to Rights
Adults should have the opportunity to: •Have relationships of their own choosing with individuals in the community, in addition to paid staff and/or immediate family; •Live in a home where and with whom they choose; •Have access to the supports that they need; •Engage in meaningful work in an inclusive setting; •Enjoy the same recreation and other leisure activities that are available to the general public; and •Participate fully in the religious observances, practices, events, and ceremonies of the individual's choice.
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Employment - The Arc Policies Related to Life in the Community
Position People with I/DD should have the supports necessary from individuals and systems to enable them to find and keep community jobs based on their preferences, interests, and strengths, work alongside people without disabilities, receive comparable wages, and be free from workplace discrimination.
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Outreach
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How are expectations communicated?
In what ways is it clear that it is not business as usual?
How is a day defined?
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Resources
Other Travel
without
Travel
Non-work Support
Workshop support
Job Develop-
ment
OTJ Support-Individual
OTJ Support-Group
Off Job Support
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What staff positions and roles exist?
What competencies and training are required?
How are staff allocated?
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Just Do It
We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.
Herb Kelleher
Southwest Airlines
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Discovery
Person centered planning
Whole life planning
Situational
assessment
Job shadowing
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30 Day Placement Plan 30 day
placement plan
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What is the pathway to employment and how long does it take?
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Collaboration
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Nurture Partners
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What community partnerships are in place?
How does the program use families, circles of support, and other person based
partnerships?
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Consider the Whole Person
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How are community supports integrated with other formal supports including
residential?
How does the program support individual relationships as the location of services
changes?
What is the role of peer-to-peer supports?
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www.ThinkWork.org