Understanding%20and%20Implementing%20the%20Disability%20Program%20Navigator%20Initiative

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Understanding and Implementing the Disability
Program Navigator Initiative

• Building Employment Opportunities for People with
  Disabilities
• Region V Training Forum
• March 3-4, 2004

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A Day in the Life

• Jimmy Weber
• Disability Program Navigator
• Siouxland Tri-State Workforce Development Center
• Sioux City, Iowa

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Two Key Words

• Knowledge
• Relationships

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Know about Disability

• Learn About Disability Issues
• ADA, Olmstead Decision, 504 Plans, curb-cuts, TTY
  etc
• Experience Disability
• Borrow a wheelchair
• Sensitivity training classes
• People First language
• Reflects that we see the person before their
  disability
• Vocabulary DOES reflect attitude

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Know ..

• Co-workers
• Other Navigators
• Partners
• Employers
• People with disabilities
• Area Organizations and Agencies who work with
  people with disabilities
• Federal Incentives
• Staff of University of Iowa College of Law
• Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center
• What not to do

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Beyond Knowing
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• Takes time

..and Hard work
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Developing working relationships with.

• One Stop Staff
• Other Navigators
• Other Agencies and Organizations
• People with disabilities
• Employers
• State Staff
• Federal Staff
• Staff of University of Iowa College of Law Law,
  Health Policy, Disability Center

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Victories

• Taxi Cabs
• Transit Paratransit
• Habitat for Humanity
• Employment Networks
• Several more people employed
• ADA/IT in Kansas City

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• The moral test of government is how it treats
  those who are in the dawn of life, the children,
  those who are in the twilight of life, the aged,
  and those who are in the shadows of life, the
  sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
• Hubert H Humphrey
• Former Senator and Presidential Candidate

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• Wherever a door is closed to anyone because of a
  disability, we must work to open it. Wherever any
  job or home or means of transportation is
  unfairly denied because of a disability we must
  work to change it. Wherever any barrier stands
  between you and the full rights and dignity of
  citizenship, we must work to remove it, in the
  name of simple decency and simple justice.
• President George W Bush
• February 1, 2001
• New Freedom Initiative Announcement Speech