ERIC ED376671: Employability and Employment Approaches: Currently Practiced in Independent Living Programs. A Resource Document.

57 Pages·1994·0.89 MB·English

by  ERIC

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ED 376 671
Means, Bob; And Others
AUTHOR
Employability and Employment Approaches: Currently
TITLE
Practiced in Independent Living Programs. A Resource
Document.
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville. Research and Training
INSTITUTION
Center in Vocational Rehabilitation.
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Adults; *Disabilities; Employment Potential;
DESCRIPTORS
Employment Programs; *Employment Services;
*Independent Living; Job Placement; Program
Descriptions; *Vocational Rehabilitation
ABSTRACT
This document provides descriptions of employment
interventions as a resource for use in initiating or expandirig
employment services for individuals with disabilities. The document
presents abstracts of 40 employability/employment interventions and
practices currently in use by independent living programs throughout
the United States. The abstracts include a brief description of the
employment services offered, geographic area served, populations
served, staff, funding source, and program effectiveness. The
abstracts are accompanied by the,names (or position titles),
addresses, and telephone numbers of people who are available to
answer questions about the described interventions. A "Table of
Programs" identifies those programs serving a specific disability
group or providing a specific type of service. (JDD)
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Employability and
Employment approaches
Currently Practiced in Independent Living Programs
Bob Means
Sandra Parkerson
Kathy Estelle
Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Arkansas Research & Training Center in Vocational Rehabillation
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All programs administered by and services provided by the Arkansas
regard to handicap,
in Vocational Rehabilitation are rendered on a nondiscriminatory basis without
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title
race, creed. color, sex, or national origin in compliance with
services have a right
VI of the Civil RightsAct of 1964. All applicants for program participation and/or
principle.
to the complaints and to appeal according to regulations governing this
The I lniversity of Arkansas is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
No. 63-1690/1994
Employability and
Approaches
Employment
Living Programs
Currently Practiced in Independent
A Resource Document
Bob Means
Center
University of Arkansas Research and Training
in Vocational Rehabilitation
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS:
Sandra Parkerson
University of Arkansas Research and Training Center
in Vocational Rehabilitation
Kathy Estelle
Mainstream Living
Little Rock, Arkansas
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Acknowledgements
Responding to surveys is usually
a difficult task as well as an added burden
even
if the response is simple. In
the case of accurately describing
a service program, the
task is not easy. Consequently,
we wish to express our appreciation to all the
ILPs and
their representatives for their
writings, editing, answering questions
and the other
processes involved in getting these
program descriptions together. Special thanks
to
Janice Irwin for competently keeping
up with the administrative mechanics of this
project from start to finish
as well as the actual typing. Thanks also
to Mary Drevdahl
for her final editing skills and
recommendations on making the document
easy to use.
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Introduction
This document is a collection of abstracts of employability/
employment interventions and practices c irrently in use by independent
living programs (ILPs) throughout the United States. The abstracts are
accompanied by the names (or position titles), addresses, and/or telephone
numbers of people who are available to answer questions about the
described interventions. The purpose of this document is to provide
descriptions of the employment interventions as a resource for ILPs in the
services.
process of initiating or expanding employment
While this document, hopefully, provides an accurate reflection of
The entries
current employment practices of ILPs, this cannot be assured.
ILPs, but rather, represent 40
are not drawn from a random sample of
(identified through different
programs from the total population of ILPs
mailing lists) who (a) acknowledged providing employability /employment
services which they viewed as worthy of sharing, (b) were willing to
share them, and (c) followed through in the preparation of the abstracts.
Of the 506 ILPs contacted, 188 responded. Of these 188, 64 stated they
services which they felt were
were providing employability/employment
worthy of sharing with other ILPs, and were willing to share them. From
this group of 64, 40 actually completed the necessary steps leading to the
inclusion of the abstract in the document. While this document represents
only 40 of more than 500 ILPs, it is the only document of its kind in
existence. Additionally, not all ILPs provide employment services. It is
-,stimated that approximately 25 percent of ILPs provide a significant level
of employability/employment services (Means & Bolton, 1992).
The employment services described in this publication were
successfully operating in some 1LP setting in this country at the time of
the survey. Although the quality of the programs, or even the replicability
of the services cannot be assured, these are employment programs that the
constraints (e.g., serving
users highly valued. Given that ILPs face some
faced by
persons with very severe disabilities, low funding base) not
service methods
many employability service providing entities, the
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contained in this document may be more appropriate for ILP settings than
the methods used in more conventional employability service settings.
The employability service descriptions contained in this
resource
document vary greatly. Some of the entries reflect complex employment
programs. Some are simply good ideas that have been brought to fruition
in a simple and economical way. Some entries describe
a way of doing
business in a rural area, others, urban and suburban. Some of the
interventions would demand a significant time and/or
money investment;
others appear to be usable with little
or no burden on resources. In many
instances the service providers appear to have
very effectively overcome
barriers that anyone would face in the provision of employability
services.
ILP staff interested in initiating or expanding employment services
would
probably benefit from the experience of those who have been through
program implementation.
If it is assumed that the ILPs are responding
to unmet needs, it is
of interest to identify the areas of service commonality
among the
programs. Services such as employability skills development (especially
job seeking skills) and placement are frequently described by the
sample.
Such services would ostensibly be considered primary in
most conceptions
of employment services. Has the established rehabilitation
system failed to
make these services available in
some communities or to some
populations? Or, are the ILPs collaborating
or competing with the
established rehabilitation system? Many questions remain
unanswered.
While the descriptions do create
some questions, an effort was made to
address typical areas projected to be of interest to
users of this document.
In addition to including a brief description of the employment
services
offered, respondents were asked to include information
on type of
geographic area, populations served, required staff, funding
source, and
program effectiveness. Most of the descriptions include responses to these
inquiries.
To help the reader identify programs of specific interest, the
Table
of Programs identifies them
as serving a specific disability group or
providing a specific type of service. These
of the pro-
special features
grams are also printed below the heading of each abstract. The special
guide
features referenced are not comprehensive but will serve as a quick
to selected features of a program.
The writing style and level of detail among the abstracts vary.
adapted from
Some abstracts were provided by the ILP staff, some were
from
previously written descriptive materials, and others were developed
telephone interviews or some combination of methods.
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