Webinar Description

This webinar will focus on funding streams to support employment first efforts and creating an infrastructure to provide competitive integrated employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The session will focus on how Medicaid funding, state developmental disability services, and foundation and charitable funding can create and sustain competitive integrated employment opportunities. You will hear directly from state developmental disability department personnel, providers, and foundation leaders who have and are continuing to work to create the opportunities for competitive integrated employment for people with disabilities.

Presenters:

• Rie Kennedy-Lizotte, Director of the State Employment Leadership Network for the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disability Services (NASDDDS)
• Margaret Van Gelder, Statewide Director of Employment and Family Supports at the Central Office of the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services
• Tammie Amsbaugh, Program Consultant, University of Iowa
• Jennifer Joyce, Director, Supports Program and Employment Services at the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities