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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. 

 
LEAD Center - 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 d

Guidance to Community Rehabilitation Program Executive Directors for the Coming Employment 1st Decade

LEAD Center | 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-Ha

UPS Delivers the "Secret Sauce" for Disability Inclusion

LEAD Center | 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 w

Employment First Information Brief: Perspective of Employers on Customized Employment

LEAD Center | 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.

LEAD Center - A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP

Discovering Your Purpose After Transitioning: Tools for Finding the Right Career Match Post-Discharge

August 13, 2020

Veterans want to ensure that their career after military life is a good fit that provides them with a sense of purpose.

Customizing Employment: Strategies for Employment Success

June 24, 2020

This webinar will expand on what we learned last week about Discovery and how to take the next step after you have really gotten to know the veterans with whom you work. Customized Employment (CE) is a process that starts with Discovery.

Guided Group Discovery: Paving a Road to Employment

June 17, 2020

Many veterans are unsure about their path to civilian employment and seek guidance on how to proceed.

Career Pathways Community of Practice Meeting: Getting on Track to Employment & Self-Sufficiency: Key Drivers of Inclusive Career Pathways

February 12, 2019

The road to Inclusive Career Pathways can be difficult for stakeholders and workforce professionals to navigate. The destination is achieving Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency for people with disabilities. Getting there is the tricky part.

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.

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.

Customizing Employment: Success through Partnerships

October 6, 2016

Join this webinar to gain information you can use about Customizing Employment: Success through Partnerships.

Customized Employment: Moving Beyond the Basics

July 30, 2014

Join us to continue to build your understanding of Customized Employment and your ability to provide this innovative employment practice to those you serve.

Promoting Leadership: Cross-Agency Approaches to Advance the Use of Customized Employment and Self–Employment Strategies

August 28, 2013

During this webinar, we will discuss reasons and strategies for aligning resources across systems to support the implementation of Discovery, Customized Employment, and Self-Employment.

Promoting Employment - Discovering Your Potential: Using Discovery to Identify Your Employment Goals

July 31, 2013

This webinar will provide information on how to use Discovery – an alternative assessment tool proven to identify the strengths of job seekers with and without disabilities – to discover your personal employment goals.

Oregon Guided Group Discovery Project

September 27, 2017

Guided Group Discovery (GGD) curriculum materials, developed by the LEAD Center, offe

Release of Guided Group Discovery Materials as a Universal Design to Promote Employment Outcomes

June 29, 2017

The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the LEAD Center recently released materials and resources for use by workforce professionals to implement Guided Group Discovery (GGD), most effectively used through cross-system partnerships.

LEAD Center and Griffin Hammis Associates Launch New Training on Self-Guided Discovery

September 30, 2015

LEAD Center, in partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC, recently launched a pilot program offering training and on-site technical assistance on Self-Guided Discovery to assist American Job Center (AJC) staff and their partners to learn an

Promoting Employment Outcomes through Partnerships and Self-Guided Discovery

June 30, 2015

The LEAD Center has been promoting the use of Discovery and Customized Employment (CE) through partnerships with American Job Centers (AJCs) for the past two years.

Share Your CE Success Story

December 21, 2014

Originally envisioned as a multi-strategy approach to match the discrete skills and unique contributions of a job seeker with a significant disability to an employer who has an unmet (and often unrealized) need for those skills and contributions,

LEAD Center Staff Travel to Chicago for NAWDP Youth Summit

September 30, 2014

Rebecca Salon and Elizabeth Jennings, the LEAD Center’s Project Director and Assistant Project Director respectively, presented at the National Association of Workforce Profes

Shaping Service Systems to Promote Customized Employment in Illinois

June 30, 2014

The LEAD Center Customized Employment Initiative works across systems in Illinois and Kansas to support systems change.

New E-Logic Courses

October 17, 2018

The LEAD Center just launched self-paced trainings on popular topics, including Customized Employment, Guided Group Discovery, and Financial Literacy.

SAMHSA Posts Request for Applications for Supported Employment Program

March 17, 2014

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2014 for the Mental Health Transformation Grant Program: Transforming Lives throug

Customized Employment Helped Me Get a Job I Love

September 28, 2018

In our newest blog, Brian Salewski shares how customized employment helped him land a job he loves in the Finance Department of Montgomery County Health and Human Services.

How to Minimize Job Search Blues and Maximize Job Search Excitement

May 30, 2017

As a way of commemorating Mental Health Awareness Month, the LEAD Center asked Dr. Debra Kissen to outline strategies people with psychiatric and other disabilities can use to maintain or improve their mental health while looking for work.

The Intersection of Customized Employment and Homelessness

October 28, 2016

For over 35 years, people have known about best practices and evidence-based approaches to support employment for people with intellectual disabilities.

Dads Who Are Breaking Stereotypes About Disability Employment

October 24, 2016

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is a topic that is important to me on both a professional and personal level.

In The Know: Leave as an Accommodation

August 19, 2016

Did you know that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an employee with a disability can request the use of accrued paid leave or the use of unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation?

In the Know: START-UP USA

May 7, 2015

In the Know is a bi-monthly feature on the LEAD Center blog that highlights important resources and information about the employment, policy and economic advancement of people with disabilities.

Group Discovery Training: Making Connections

June 25, 2014

The LEAD Center’s customized employment initiative in collaboration with American Job Centers (AJCs) aims to increase the use of the workforce system by people with disabilities and support their ultimate success in achieving employment. The...

In the Know: Self-Employment for People with Disabilities

June 5, 2014

This 2013 report highlights Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Recources and Training (START-UP) and makes recommendations to ensure entrepreneurs with disabilities can achieve their dream of owning their own business.

Categories - LG Tablet

 
LEAD Center - 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 d

Guidance to Community Rehabilitation Program Executive Directors for the Coming Employment 1st Decade

LEAD Center | 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-Ha

UPS Delivers the "Secret Sauce" for Disability Inclusion

LEAD Center | 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 w

Employment First Information Brief: Perspective of Employers on Customized Employment

LEAD Center | 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.

LEAD Center - A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP

Discovering Your Purpose After Transitioning: Tools for Finding the Right Career Match Post-Discharge

August 13, 2020

Veterans want to ensure that their career after military life is a good fit that provides them with a sense of purpose.

Customizing Employment: Strategies for Employment Success

June 24, 2020

This webinar will expand on what we learned last week about Discovery and how to take the next step after you have really gotten to know the veterans with whom you work. Customized Employment (CE) is a process that starts with Discovery.

Guided Group Discovery: Paving a Road to Employment

June 17, 2020

Many veterans are unsure about their path to civilian employment and seek guidance on how to proceed.

Career Pathways Community of Practice Meeting: Getting on Track to Employment & Self-Sufficiency: Key Drivers of Inclusive Career Pathways

February 12, 2019

The road to Inclusive Career Pathways can be difficult for stakeholders and workforce professionals to navigate. The destination is achieving Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency for people with disabilities. Getting there is the tricky part.

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.

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.

Customizing Employment: Success through Partnerships

October 6, 2016

Join this webinar to gain information you can use about Customizing Employment: Success through Partnerships.

Customized Employment: Moving Beyond the Basics

July 30, 2014

Join us to continue to build your understanding of Customized Employment and your ability to provide this innovative employment practice to those you serve.

Promoting Leadership: Cross-Agency Approaches to Advance the Use of Customized Employment and Self–Employment Strategies

August 28, 2013

During this webinar, we will discuss reasons and strategies for aligning resources across systems to support the implementation of Discovery, Customized Employment, and Self-Employment.

Promoting Employment - Discovering Your Potential: Using Discovery to Identify Your Employment Goals

July 31, 2013

This webinar will provide information on how to use Discovery – an alternative assessment tool proven to identify the strengths of job seekers with and without disabilities – to discover your personal employment goals.

Oregon Guided Group Discovery Project

September 27, 2017

Guided Group Discovery (GGD) curriculum materials, developed by the LEAD Center, offe

Release of Guided Group Discovery Materials as a Universal Design to Promote Employment Outcomes

June 29, 2017

The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the LEAD Center recently released materials and resources for use by workforce professionals to implement Guided Group Discovery (GGD), most effectively used through cross-system partnerships.

LEAD Center and Griffin Hammis Associates Launch New Training on Self-Guided Discovery

September 30, 2015

LEAD Center, in partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC, recently launched a pilot program offering training and on-site technical assistance on Self-Guided Discovery to assist American Job Center (AJC) staff and their partners to learn an

Promoting Employment Outcomes through Partnerships and Self-Guided Discovery

June 30, 2015

The LEAD Center has been promoting the use of Discovery and Customized Employment (CE) through partnerships with American Job Centers (AJCs) for the past two years.

Share Your CE Success Story

December 21, 2014

Originally envisioned as a multi-strategy approach to match the discrete skills and unique contributions of a job seeker with a significant disability to an employer who has an unmet (and often unrealized) need for those skills and contributions,

LEAD Center Staff Travel to Chicago for NAWDP Youth Summit

September 30, 2014

Rebecca Salon and Elizabeth Jennings, the LEAD Center’s Project Director and Assistant Project Director respectively, presented at the National Association of Workforce Profes

Shaping Service Systems to Promote Customized Employment in Illinois

June 30, 2014

The LEAD Center Customized Employment Initiative works across systems in Illinois and Kansas to support systems change.

New E-Logic Courses

October 17, 2018

The LEAD Center just launched self-paced trainings on popular topics, including Customized Employment, Guided Group Discovery, and Financial Literacy.

SAMHSA Posts Request for Applications for Supported Employment Program

March 17, 2014

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2014 for the Mental Health Transformation Grant Program: Transforming Lives throug

Customized Employment Helped Me Get a Job I Love

September 28, 2018

In our newest blog, Brian Salewski shares how customized employment helped him land a job he loves in the Finance Department of Montgomery County Health and Human Services.

How to Minimize Job Search Blues and Maximize Job Search Excitement

May 30, 2017

As a way of commemorating Mental Health Awareness Month, the LEAD Center asked Dr. Debra Kissen to outline strategies people with psychiatric and other disabilities can use to maintain or improve their mental health while looking for work.

The Intersection of Customized Employment and Homelessness

October 28, 2016

For over 35 years, people have known about best practices and evidence-based approaches to support employment for people with intellectual disabilities.

Dads Who Are Breaking Stereotypes About Disability Employment

October 24, 2016

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is a topic that is important to me on both a professional and personal level.

In The Know: Leave as an Accommodation

August 19, 2016

Did you know that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an employee with a disability can request the use of accrued paid leave or the use of unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation?

In the Know: START-UP USA

May 7, 2015

In the Know is a bi-monthly feature on the LEAD Center blog that highlights important resources and information about the employment, policy and economic advancement of people with disabilities.

Group Discovery Training: Making Connections

June 25, 2014

The LEAD Center’s customized employment initiative in collaboration with American Job Centers (AJCs) aims to increase the use of the workforce system by people with disabilities and support their ultimate success in achieving employment. The...

In the Know: Self-Employment for People with Disabilities

June 5, 2014

This 2013 report highlights Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Recources and Training (START-UP) and makes recommendations to ensure entrepreneurs with disabilities can achieve their dream of owning their own business.

Categories - SM Tablet

Resources

 
LEAD Center - 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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.

LEAD Center - A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP

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

Oregon Guided Group Discovery Project

September 27, 2017

Guided Group Discovery (GGD) curriculum materials, developed by the LEAD Center, offe

Release of Guided Group Discovery Materials as a Universal Design to Promote Employment Outcomes

June 29, 2017

The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the LEAD Center recently released materials and resources for use by workforce professionals to implement Guided Group Discovery (GGD), most effectively used through cross-system partnerships.

LEAD Center and Griffin Hammis Associates Launch New Training on Self-Guided Discovery

September 30, 2015

LEAD Center, in partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC, recently launched a pilot program offering training and on-site technical assistance on Self-Guided Discovery to assist American Job Center (AJC) staff and their partners to learn an

Promoting Employment Outcomes through Partnerships and Self-Guided Discovery

June 30, 2015

The LEAD Center has been promoting the use of Discovery and Customized Employment (CE) through partnerships with American Job Centers (AJCs) for the past two years.

Share Your CE Success Story

December 21, 2014

Originally envisioned as a multi-strategy approach to match the discrete skills and unique contributions of a job seeker with a significant disability to an employer who has an unmet (and often unrealized) need for those skills and contributions,

LEAD Center Staff Travel to Chicago for NAWDP Youth Summit

September 30, 2014

Rebecca Salon and Elizabeth Jennings, the LEAD Center’s Project Director and Assistant Project Director respectively, presented at the National Association of Workforce Profes

Shaping Service Systems to Promote Customized Employment in Illinois

June 30, 2014

The LEAD Center Customized Employment Initiative works across systems in Illinois and Kansas to support systems change.

  •  

Categories - Phablet

Resources

 
LEAD Center - 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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.

LEAD Center - A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP

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

Oregon Guided Group Discovery Project

September 27, 2017

Guided Group Discovery (GGD) curriculum materials, developed by the LEAD Center, offe

Release of Guided Group Discovery Materials as a Universal Design to Promote Employment Outcomes

June 29, 2017

The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the LEAD Center recently released materials and resources for use by workforce professionals to implement Guided Group Discovery (GGD), most effectively used through cross-system partnerships.

LEAD Center and Griffin Hammis Associates Launch New Training on Self-Guided Discovery

September 30, 2015

LEAD Center, in partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC, recently launched a pilot program offering training and on-site technical assistance on Self-Guided Discovery to assist American Job Center (AJC) staff and their partners to learn an

Promoting Employment Outcomes through Partnerships and Self-Guided Discovery

June 30, 2015

The LEAD Center has been promoting the use of Discovery and Customized Employment (CE) through partnerships with American Job Centers (AJCs) for the past two years.

Share Your CE Success Story

December 21, 2014

Originally envisioned as a multi-strategy approach to match the discrete skills and unique contributions of a job seeker with a significant disability to an employer who has an unmet (and often unrealized) need for those skills and contributions,

LEAD Center Staff Travel to Chicago for NAWDP Youth Summit

September 30, 2014

Rebecca Salon and Elizabeth Jennings, the LEAD Center’s Project Director and Assistant Project Director respectively, presented at the National Association of Workforce Profes

Shaping Service Systems to Promote Customized Employment in Illinois

June 30, 2014

The LEAD Center Customized Employment Initiative works across systems in Illinois and Kansas to support systems change.

  •  

Categories - Phone

Resources

 
LEAD Center - 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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

LEAD Center | 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.

LEAD Center - A Resource Developed by LEAD Center for ODEP

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.

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LEAD On! Articles

Oregon Guided Group Discovery Project

September 27, 2017

Guided Group Discovery (GGD) curriculum materials, developed by the LEAD Center, offe

Release of Guided Group Discovery Materials as a Universal Design to Promote Employment Outcomes

June 29, 2017

The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the LEAD Center recently released materials and resources for use by workforce professionals to implement Guided Group Discovery (GGD), most effectively used through cross-system partnerships.

LEAD Center and Griffin Hammis Associates Launch New Training on Self-Guided Discovery

September 30, 2015

LEAD Center, in partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC, recently launched a pilot program offering training and on-site technical assistance on Self-Guided Discovery to assist American Job Center (AJC) staff and their partners to learn an

Promoting Employment Outcomes through Partnerships and Self-Guided Discovery

June 30, 2015

The LEAD Center has been promoting the use of Discovery and Customized Employment (CE) through partnerships with American Job Centers (AJCs) for the past two years.

Share Your CE Success Story

December 21, 2014

Originally envisioned as a multi-strategy approach to match the discrete skills and unique contributions of a job seeker with a significant disability to an employer who has an unmet (and often unrealized) need for those skills and contributions,

LEAD Center Staff Travel to Chicago for NAWDP Youth Summit

September 30, 2014

Rebecca Salon and Elizabeth Jennings, the LEAD Center’s Project Director and Assistant Project Director respectively, presented at the National Association of Workforce Profes

Shaping Service Systems to Promote Customized Employment in Illinois

June 30, 2014

The LEAD Center Customized Employment Initiative works across systems in Illinois and Kansas to support systems change.

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