WEBINAR: Competitive Integrated Employment as a Civil Right for People with Disabilities
TOMORROW: Tuesday, november 8, 2016 3:00 - 4:30pm ET
The Employment First State Leadership Mentoring Program (EFSLMP) is making progress in improving state infrastructures that prioritize
competitive integrated employment for people with disabilities over segregated sheltered work or non-work activities. These improvements are occurring at the policy, partnerships, capacity building and services realignment levels. However, as EFSLMP focuses
upon necessary structural changes needed to reduce sheltered work and non-work while increasing integrated, competitive work, it may also be useful to view the work of EFSLMP as a human and civil rights initiative.
This webinar brings together a panel of presenters from the Department of Justice, Administration for Community Living (ACL) and APSE
to present their views on the linkage between EFSLMP and civil rights legislation, as well as law and policy focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities in their communities (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision).
Promoting employment and community inclusion also means promoting economic security for people with disabilities who have historically faced discrimination and economic disenfranchisement. The panelists will discuss how supporting transformation to competitive
integrated employment aligns with changing laws and policies to improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families.
To prepare for the webinar, you can review the recently released guidance from the Department of Justice about how the ADA and Olmstead
decision apply to employment services and settings. Read the LEAD Center's summary.
This webinar is produced by National Disability Institute's LEAD Center with
funding by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, Grant #OD-23863-12-75-4-11.
