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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This message is from Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS) in the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS).  This message is also attached below. 

Dear Stakeholders,

We want to inform you that the go-live date for the Medicaid Functional Eligibility Instrument (MFEI) Intellectual/Developmental Disability (I/DD) Implementation and the interRAI Service Planning has been extended to March 1, 2025. This adjustment reflects our commitment to ensuring a smooth transition for individuals and service providers.

For more details on this update, please refer to the official announcement on the KDADS website: I/DD Waiver Program Modernization Announcement [ [link removed] ].

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.

Thank you for your continued support and collaboration.

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 Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS) in the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS),

Dear Stakeholders,

KDADS invites your feedback on the Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Background Check Policy. Your input will help us ensure the policy aligns with community needs.

Access the policy and submit comments here: HCBS Policies [ [link removed] ] and attached below.
Comment Period: 10/29/24 - 11/29/24

We appreciate your participation.

Best regards,

Mohammad Nahid Ul Islam
HCBS Senior Administrative Assistant
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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Job Vacancy Announcements

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

The Topeka Job Fair is Tuesday, November 12 from 12:30 to 3:00 pm at Hillcrest Community Center, 1800 SE 21st Street in Topeka. .  For more information, please go to their Facebook page [ [link removed] ] or Step Up Job Fairs [ [link removed] ]. 

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The information below is from the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH).

As announced earlier, the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH) is hosting several town hall meetings, two in-person and couple virtual sessions in the coming weeks, here's another in Wichita (in-person) on Saturday, November 16, 2024.

An accessible flyer is attached below.

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This information is from the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Business Sense Newsletter.

November 2024

Accommodation Solutions Are a Few Clicks Away

A business’s greatest asset is its people. To foster success in the workplace, businesses must ensure that their employees have the tools and environment they need to do their best work.

For some employees with disabilities, these tools may include reasonable accommodations—modifications to the work environment or the way a job is customarily done that enable a disabled person to enjoy equal opportunity to do the work. Now, a powerful new tool from the ODEP-funded Job Accommodation Network (JAN) makes it easier than ever for employers and workers to identify potential accommodation solutions.

JAN’s “Situations and Solutions Finder” [ [link removed] ] contains more than 700 examples of actual accommodations made by organizations of all sizes and in all industries, in both the private and public sectors. Users can search accommodations by disability, limitation or occupation and save the results.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, covered employers must provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities, when requested, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship.

An accommodation can be anything from a piece of equipment (e.g., noise-canceling headphones) to physical changes to workstations (e.g., wheelchair accessibility) to flexible work schedules. Most accommodations are low cost. An analysis of survey data collected by JAN [ [link removed] ] from employers between 2019 and 2024 reveals that about half of accommodations for workers with disabilities cost nothing to implement. For those accommodations that do incur a one-time cost, the median expenditure is only $300.

Because accommodations are individual by nature, users should know that not every example in the Situations and Solutions Finder may be effective for all people or workplaces. But learning about commonly used solutions will give employers and workers a head start in assessing their potential options.

U.S. Department of Labor
Office of Disability Employment Policy

DRIVING CHANGE • CREATING OPPORTUNITY

View the Business Sense newsletter on our website [ [link removed] ].

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This information is from the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAt) Future of Work Newsletter.

View this email in your browser [ [link removed] ].

A Note from Our Director

Dear Future of Work Subscribers,

For those of you I have yet to meet, I am Bill Curtis-Davidson, Director of the Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT). I want to extend my sincerest thanks to each of you for engaging with and sharing our Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Inclusive Hiring Framework [ [link removed] ]. Your support has significantly increased this important tool’s visibility and extended its reach to a wider audience. Together, we are making a meaningful difference in the inclusive hiring space for people with and without disabilities.

The PEAT team would appreciate your feedback on this Framework, as well as ideas on how organizations might voluntarily adopt its practices. To get in touch, please use our contact form [ [link removed] ].

With thanks,

Bill Curtis-Davidson

Your Guide to More Inclusive AI-Powered Hiring Tools

Read our latest blog post [ [link removed] ] to learn more about our AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework [ [link removed] ], which helps employers understand the unique accessibility and disability inclusion issues they should consider as they procure and use AI hiring technologies.

Explore JAN’s Situations and Solutions Finder

The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) recently launched its Situations and Solutions Finder [ [link removed] ]. This new tool lets you save your workplace accommodations search results as an easy-to-reference or -share PDF.

Follow ODEP on LinkedIn

Are you interested in learning more about timely topics and trends in disability employment? Check out the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) LinkedIn page. Follow it today to get regular updates [ [link removed] ] and engage in conversations about the employment of people with disabilities.

Learn About AI-powered Hiring Technology

“Pay attention to people with disabilities and also address systemic barriers throughout your hiring process, not just in AI.”—Lex Huth, Director of Communications at PEAT. Listen to this DE Talk podcast episode [ [link removed] ] featuring Lex and John Robinson, President and CEO of Our Ability. They discuss how small to medium-sized businesses can use AI-powered hiring technology more inclusively.

“It is especially important to have a disability inclusion and accessibility lens when considering the use of AI systems in hiring processes.”—Natasha Bansgopaul, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Listen to Natasha discuss AI and inclusive hiring on the Future of Work Podcast [ [link removed] ].

27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2024
• Date: November 9, 2024
• Workshop: Practicing Inclusivity in AI: Stakeholder Engagement Policy in Action [ [link removed] ]
• Facilitators: PEAT Director Bill Curtis-Davidson will join members of the Partnership on AI’s Global Task Force for Inclusive AI to facilitate this workshop
• Learn More about the 27th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference [ [link removed] ]

PEAT is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) [ [link removed] ].

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* P.C. DRAFT- Background Check 10.29.pdf [ [link removed] ]
* KCDHH TH Wichita Nov16 FINAL.pdf [ [link removed] ]
* MFEI IDD Implementation Timeline Update.pdf [ [link removed] ]

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