DISABILITY WORKFORCE COMMITTEE DUTIES
The Disability Workforce Committee is a responsible for advising the WDB on matters related to accessibility and the provision of disability services to One-Stop customers with disabilities. The Services to Individuals with Disabilities Committee shall also provide policy guidance as it relates to services to individuals with disabilities.
The Committee:
- Advocates for customers
- Raises awareness of disability as a civil rights and diversity issue
- Promotes collaboration between service providers
- Responsible to ensure that training for staff on providing supports for or accommodations to, finding employment opportunities for, individuals with disabilities
- Seeks ways to increase competitive integrated employment opportunities
Members of the committee shall include:
- WDB members
- Self-advocates for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities
- Providers of employment services, including those who employ individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in competitive integrated employment
- Representatives of national disability advocacy organizations for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities
- Experts with a background in academia or research and expertise in employment and wage policy issues for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities
- Representatives from the employer community or national employer, and
- Other individuals or representatives of organizations with expertise on increasing opportunities for competitive integrated employment for individuals with disabilities
Minimum Meeting Requirements:
- Bi-monthly
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- Andrew Tunison - Chair
- James Beaumont
- Bruce Flaherty
- Jan Lynch
- Briggs Seekins
- Jennifer Slade
- Cassidy Stanley