Here is today's Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC) Disability News message. I hope you have a wonderful day.?

Martha

*Martha K. Gabehart* | "Executive Director
"Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC)
*Kansas Governor Laura Kelly
*900 SW Jackson, Suite 100 | Topeka, Kansas 66612
(785) 296-6525 (direct) | (785) 260-4027 (cell)

[email protected] | www.kcdcinfo.ks.gov [ [link removed] ]

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Job Vacancy Announcements

Blue Cross/Blue Shield has posted new job vacancy announcements on their website [ [link removed] ].

The Intrust Bank job vacancy listing is attached below.?

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This information is from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS).

Dear Stakeholder,

We are writing to you on behalf of the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) about an important new Technical Advisory Group (TAG). This group will have a firsthand role in developing the new Community Support Waiver [ [link removed] ] (CSW), a new waiver to serve Kansans with Disabilities.

The TAG is a group of volunteers that will meet monthly for 1?2 hours to discuss the CSW and provide their vital feedback. To apply, please complete this form by July 16: Apply for the TAG [ [link removed] ]

Approximately 20?25 applicants will be accepted. KDADS is looking for people with hands-on experience with people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, either personally or professionally. Guide the CSW by providing a voice for you and your peers.

About the CSW

The Community Support Waiver will help Kansans with disabilities of all ages?children, youth, or adults?by expanding community care choices and supplementing natural supports. Add your email to the CSW mailing list [ [link removed] ] to get updates on the program, key decisions, upcoming town halls, and more.
The work on this committee is vital to the process. We hope you apply to make your voice heard and help modernize the Kansas I/DD system!

Best regards,

Long Term Services & Supports
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
503 S. Kansas Avenue
Topeka, KS 66603
Phone: 785-296-4983
Fax: 785-296-0256

Visit Our Website: www.kdads.ks.gov [ [link removed] ]

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This information is from the Office of Disability Policy (ODEP) Employment 1st Community of Practice (CoP).

July 17

Community of Practice Webinar Series
Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) Transformation Hub
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. ET

Join us and the Office of Disability Employment Policy's (ODEP) as we explore the new CIE Transformation Hub, an interagency collaboration to provide resources to increase Competitive Integrated Employment for people with disabilities. The presentation will guide providers, employees, advocates and state and national policy leaders through the various resources available on the site, and will feature insights and testimonials from Subject Matter Experts who authored some of the resources, as well as those in the community who have used them.

Webinar Objectives:

Learn how to efficiently find the information and resources you need on the CIE Transformation Hub.

Hear expert insights and gain their perspectives on the content available.

Discover new resources and tools developed to support CIE efforts to enhance opportunities and outcomes

Find new ways to engage on the CIE hub and take steps to promote CIE in your community.

***Register for the Webinar Here*** [ [link removed] ]

The National Employment First Community of Practice (CoP) Webinar Series augments the technical assistance areas of Employment First systems change (Capacity Building, Provider Transformation, School-to-Work Transition, Employer Engagement, and Policy/Funding Alignment). CoP participants benefit from national subject matter experts (SMEs) presenting information and resources to support Employment First efforts.

Please email any accommodation requests to [email protected] <[email protected]>.
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Speaker Bios

Welcome and Opening Remarks by:

Taryn Williams
Assistant Secretary of Labor

Taryn Mackenzie Williams is the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy. In this position, she advises the Secretary of Labor on how the Department?s policies and programs impact the employment of people with disabilities and leads the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), which works with employers and all levels of government to promote evidence-based policy that improves employment opportunities and outcomes for people with disabilities.

Previously, Williams was the managing director for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress, which works on progressive policies focused on a broad range of anti-poverty strategies. Before joining American Progress, she worked at ODEP on a variety of issues related to education, workforce policy, Social Security, Medicaid and civil rights. In her role as director of youth policy, Williams led agency efforts to coordinate education and employment policy in support of improved labor force outcomes for disabled youth. From 2014 through 2016, Williams served as ODEP?s chief of staff. She also undertook detail assignments as associate director for public engagement and liaison to the disability community at the White House from 2014 through 2015 and as a policy adviser on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions from 2012 through 2013.

Prior to joining the federal government, Williams worked as the research coordinator for leadership programs at the Institute for Educational Leadership and as the director of programs at the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues headquartered in Chicago. She holds a bachelor?s degree in public policy from Brown University and a master?s degree in education with a concentration in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University. She resides in Washington, DC.

Rebecca Salon
Sr. Advisor, LEAD Center

Rebecca Salon is a Senior Advisor on the LEAD Center/WIOA Policy Development Center at National Disability Institute. She was Project Director of the LEAD Center for over six years, starting in 2013. Dr. Salon also works at the District of Columbia?s Department on Disability Services (DDS) on projects related to Employment First, was Project Director for DC?s No Wrong Door and Partnerships in Employment Systems Change grants, works on many other program initiatives through DDS?s developmental disabilities and vocational rehabilitation administrations, and has been connected to ODEP?s Employment First Community of Practice from its beginning. Rebecca previously was Executive Director of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute, where she worked for 20 years in positions that spanned all of its programs and projects. Since 1988, Salon has been an advisor to Project ACTION!, DC?s state-wide self-advocacy coalition run by adults with developmental disabilities and has worked with a number of family advocacy coalitions in DC and Maryland.

Elizabeth Perkins
Coordinator of Programs, Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation

Elizabeth Perkins is the Coordinator of Programs with Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation. Elizabeth has held various positions during her 20 years at VR, serving as a counselor, director, and manager. In her current role, she leads a program unit consisting of the following teams: youth services, community rehabilitation services, mental health services, rehabilitation technology, business services, and Veterans education and training. She?s passionate about the power of partnerships and works closely with statewide workforce partners to serve participants collaboratively. She holds a master?s degree in counseling and is a licensed professional counselor and national board-certified counselor. She recently completed her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri.

Dr. Lisa A Mills
EconSys SME

Dr. Lisa A. Mills has been a consultant in the field of disability for 33 years. She is currently a consultant on Employment First systems change. She has worked in twenty-four different states over the past sixteen years under various contracts with state and federal government agencies, managed care organizations and provider associations. She consults with states and other entities on the design and implementation of innovative public programs that can effectively advance competitive integrated employment for people with disabilities who use those programs. She also works with state Medicaid and Vocational Rehabilitation agencies on value and performance-based payment models which can simultaneously support service provider capacity-building, service quality and cost-effectiveness. Dr. Mills also supports employment service providers in building capacity, transformation and implementation of Customized Employment and Systematic Instruction.

.In addition to her own consulting, Dr. Mills is an associate with Marc Gold and Associates. She is also an APSE member, TASH member and former TASH board member and public policy advisor for TASH. She also previously served as a senior technical advisor and Ruderman Foundation Fellow for the National Coalition to Promote Self-Determination. She is the proud parent of a son who is working in competitive integrated employment using vocational rehabilitation supported employment services and is in college through ?Think College?

More Speakers to be Announced Soon!

Employment First Webinars are recorded, and the links are distributed to the listserv within two business days following the webinar. Please share this announcement with your colleagues! If they are not a current subscriber to ODEP's Employment First mailing list, they can register here [ [link removed] ].

Our mailing address is:
Economic Systems Inc.
3120 Fairview Park Dr
Suite 500
Falls Church, VA 22042


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