…ODEP has addressed the employment needs of individuals with the most significant disabilities. “Integrated employment” refers to ensuring that people with profound disabilities are provided the opportunity to seek employment…
…and businesses the help they need to create competitive integrated employment opportunities for disabled people. Competitive integrated employment (CIE) means a job where disabled people are paid at least minimum…
…The Rehabilitative Services Administrative supports employment programs that people with disabilities rely on, such as: Vocational Rehab, which helps disabled people be trained for, find, and keep competitive integrated employment…
…Employment Act (TCIEA) to pass. TCIEA gives states and employers help to move disabled employees from sheltered workshops to competitive integrated employment opportunities. Competitive integrated employment (CIE) means a job…
…wage, and it most commonly happens in sheltered workshops. It is discrimination, and it is unacceptable. The Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) is a bill that would give…
Today, members of Congress reintroduced the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA). TCIEA would end the subminimum wage for disabled people (called 14(c), based on section 14(c) of the…
It’s important for self-advocates to understand employment policy and how things could be different—so that we can effectively advocate for an end to policies that hurt us, and for the…
…which promotes research into employment supports and technologies that help people with disabilities work. And it would move NIDILRR from the Administration on Community Living, which emphasizes community-based employment for…
…and will end the use of seclusion, aversives, and restraint in our schools, residential facilities, and service provision! Disability Discrimination in Employment by Spencer Hunley According to the U.S. Equal…
…employment is not the same as supported employment, and that individuals with disabilities should be provided with the appropriate supports to achieve fully inclusive and integrated employment in their own…
