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Customized Employment Employers and Workers: Creating a Competitive Edge

07/25/2007 | Requests *

Summary

Since 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor has funded 20 Customized Employment and 6 Workforce Action demonstration projects to identify policy mechanisms that effectively support customized employment. This report gives the background, key findings, successful strategies, obstacles, and analysis of the different projects. The main work product is a set of local, state, and federal policy recommendations generated by the initiative.

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Available Files

Report PDF (502K, 81 pages)
Report Word (392K, 80 pages)

Keywords

Community Inclusion; Independent Living; Information and Referral; Medicaid; customized employment; workforce action; partnership; One-Stop Career Centers; vocational rehabilitation; VR; integration; workforce investment board; WIB; measurement; self-employment; Metro North Regional Employment Board; Project Inclusion; Project Exceed; Success Project; Whatever it Takes; WorkFORCE; Jobs for All

Topic

Consumer Direction, Employment Programs, Financing HCBS, State/Agency Information, Sustainability

Type/Tool

Compendia, Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers, Reports

Source

National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult; NCWD

State

Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, All States/Territories

Date Created

08/25/2008

Contact

National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult

contact@onestops.info

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/2338

Permission to use any element of this document should be obtained by the above named contact person. Always name the originator as the source of this material.

* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007

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