Customized Employment
LEAD Center has multiple initiatives to promote Customized Employment as a universal design approach within the workforce development system to enable youth and adults with disabilities to secure and maintain employment. The LEAD Center provides intensive technical assistance and training to staff at American Job Centers (AJCs) and their partners on group discovery, customized employment, self-guided discovery and self-employment, while highlighting the benefits of partnerships, collaborations, and braiding and leveraging resources.
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Resources
- A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP
Customized Employment: Stories and Lessons from the Field
January 2018 | Tool/Manual
Customized Employment (CE) represents a nuanced departure from traditional competitive and comparative approaches to developing work. True CE is hard to come by actually.
The Essential Elements of Customized Employment for Universal Application
July 2017 | Tool/Manual
Customized employment (CE) refers to competitive integrated employment, for an individual with a significant disability, that is based on an individualized determination of the strengths, needs, and interests of the individual with a significant...
Guidance to Community Rehabilitation Program Executive Directors for the Coming Employment 1st Decade
| February 2017 | Report/Brief
As Employment First gains ground across the nation, shifts in organizational thinking and leadership are needed in order to not only comply with law, but to provide the best services to individuals with disabilities. Cary Griffin, CEO of Grffin-...
UPS Delivers the "Secret Sauce" for Disability Inclusion
| January 2017 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
What does successful workplace inclusion for people with disabilities look like? An innovative program at Worldport, UPS’s main air sorting hub in Louisville, Kentucky, is game-changing, reframing disability inclusion not only as social...
Frequently Asked Questions: Integrated Location Criteria of the Definition of “Competitive Integrated Employment”
January 2017 | Tool/Manual
Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education
This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document addresses the criteria for an integrated employment location within the definition of “competitive integrated employment” in section 7(5)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act), as...
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Achieving Best Practice in Employment Supports: Defining Measures of Effectiveness
April 2016 | Report/Brief
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Advancing Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This publication from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (a project of the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston) addresses a key challenge for states with Employ
Employment First Information Brief: Perspective of Employers on Customized Employment
| January 2016 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
This information brief provides the results of six focus groups conducted to garner the perspective of employers who had hired individuals with disabilities into customized jobs within the past year.
Customized Employment: Descriptions, Forms, Samples, Guides and Plans
January 2016 | Tool/Manual
Marc Gold & Assciates
This website serves as a repository for Marc Gold & Associates forms, samples, guides and plans related to customized employment.
Griffin-Hammis Associates
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc.
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc. is a full service consultancy specializing in developing communities of economic cooperation and self-employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Minnesota Success Stories
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC.
The Minnesota Employment Training and Technical Assistance Center (MNTAT) features success stories about Minnesotans with a variety of disabilities who are successful in individualized, customized employment or who have started their own business.
Webinars
WEBINAR: Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment
June 26, 2017
Don’t miss this webinar on Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment,, in which we will share materials you can use to implement Guided Group Discovery through cross-system partnerships.
Webinar: Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment
March 28, 2018
Sign up now for a webinar on Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment.
LEAD On! Articles
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Resources
- A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP
Customized Employment: Stories and Lessons from the Field
January 2018 | Tool/Manual
Customized Employment (CE) represents a nuanced departure from traditional competitive and comparative approaches to developing work. True CE is hard to come by actually.
The Essential Elements of Customized Employment for Universal Application
July 2017 | Tool/Manual
Customized employment (CE) refers to competitive integrated employment, for an individual with a significant disability, that is based on an individualized determination of the strengths, needs, and interests of the individual with a significant...
Guidance to Community Rehabilitation Program Executive Directors for the Coming Employment 1st Decade
| February 2017 | Report/Brief
As Employment First gains ground across the nation, shifts in organizational thinking and leadership are needed in order to not only comply with law, but to provide the best services to individuals with disabilities. Cary Griffin, CEO of Grffin-...
UPS Delivers the "Secret Sauce" for Disability Inclusion
| January 2017 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
What does successful workplace inclusion for people with disabilities look like? An innovative program at Worldport, UPS’s main air sorting hub in Louisville, Kentucky, is game-changing, reframing disability inclusion not only as social...
Frequently Asked Questions: Integrated Location Criteria of the Definition of “Competitive Integrated Employment”
January 2017 | Tool/Manual
Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education
This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document addresses the criteria for an integrated employment location within the definition of “competitive integrated employment” in section 7(5)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act), as...
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Achieving Best Practice in Employment Supports: Defining Measures of Effectiveness
April 2016 | Report/Brief
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Advancing Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This publication from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (a project of the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston) addresses a key challenge for states with Employ
Employment First Information Brief: Perspective of Employers on Customized Employment
| January 2016 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
This information brief provides the results of six focus groups conducted to garner the perspective of employers who had hired individuals with disabilities into customized jobs within the past year.
Customized Employment: Descriptions, Forms, Samples, Guides and Plans
January 2016 | Tool/Manual
Marc Gold & Assciates
This website serves as a repository for Marc Gold & Associates forms, samples, guides and plans related to customized employment.
Griffin-Hammis Associates
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc.
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc. is a full service consultancy specializing in developing communities of economic cooperation and self-employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Minnesota Success Stories
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC.
The Minnesota Employment Training and Technical Assistance Center (MNTAT) features success stories about Minnesotans with a variety of disabilities who are successful in individualized, customized employment or who have started their own business.
Webinars
WEBINAR: Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment
June 26, 2017
Don’t miss this webinar on Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment,, in which we will share materials you can use to implement Guided Group Discovery through cross-system partnerships.
Webinar: Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment
March 28, 2018
Sign up now for a webinar on Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment.
LEAD On! Articles
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Resources
- A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP
Customized Employment: Stories and Lessons from the Field
January 2018 | Tool/Manual
Customized Employment (CE) represents a nuanced departure from traditional competitive and comparative approaches to developing work. True CE is hard to come by actually.
The Essential Elements of Customized Employment for Universal Application
July 2017 | Tool/Manual
Customized employment (CE) refers to competitive integrated employment, for an individual with a significant disability, that is based on an individualized determination of the strengths, needs, and interests of the individual with a significant...
Guidance to Community Rehabilitation Program Executive Directors for the Coming Employment 1st Decade
| February 2017 | Report/Brief
As Employment First gains ground across the nation, shifts in organizational thinking and leadership are needed in order to not only comply with law, but to provide the best services to individuals with disabilities. Cary Griffin, CEO of Grffin-...
UPS Delivers the "Secret Sauce" for Disability Inclusion
| January 2017 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
What does successful workplace inclusion for people with disabilities look like? An innovative program at Worldport, UPS’s main air sorting hub in Louisville, Kentucky, is game-changing, reframing disability inclusion not only as social...
Frequently Asked Questions: Integrated Location Criteria of the Definition of “Competitive Integrated Employment”
January 2017 | Tool/Manual
Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education
This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document addresses the criteria for an integrated employment location within the definition of “competitive integrated employment” in section 7(5)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act), as...
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Achieving Best Practice in Employment Supports: Defining Measures of Effectiveness
April 2016 | Report/Brief
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Advancing Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This publication from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (a project of the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston) addresses a key challenge for states with Employ
Employment First Information Brief: Perspective of Employers on Customized Employment
| January 2016 | Report/Brief
LEAD Center
This information brief provides the results of six focus groups conducted to garner the perspective of employers who had hired individuals with disabilities into customized jobs within the past year.
Customized Employment: Descriptions, Forms, Samples, Guides and Plans
January 2016 | Tool/Manual
Marc Gold & Assciates
This website serves as a repository for Marc Gold & Associates forms, samples, guides and plans related to customized employment.
Griffin-Hammis Associates
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc.
Griffin-Hammis Associates, Inc. is a full service consultancy specializing in developing communities of economic cooperation and self-employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Minnesota Success Stories
Website
Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC.
The Minnesota Employment Training and Technical Assistance Center (MNTAT) features success stories about Minnesotans with a variety of disabilities who are successful in individualized, customized employment or who have started their own business.
Webinars
WEBINAR: Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment
June 26, 2017
Don’t miss this webinar on Guided Group Discovery: Paving the Way to Employment,, in which we will share materials you can use to implement Guided Group Discovery through cross-system partnerships.
Webinar: Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment
March 28, 2018
Sign up now for a webinar on Self-Guided Discovery: Helping People Discover Their Own Path to Employment.