YES To Employment Youth Employment Solution Center

Season 5, Episode 5 — 31 August 2021 About this episode The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen, Sean Roy and Laura Owens fan out across the Partnerships in Employment states for a five year retrospective on the PIE state projects. We put four questions to each team: Why did your state apply for a PIE Grant?...

Season 5, Episode 4 — 31 August 2021 About this episode The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen, Sean Roy and Laura Owens fan out across the Partnerships in Employment states for a five year retrospective on the PIE state projects. We put four questions to each team: Why did your state apply for a PIE Grant?...

The YES! Center’s Dale Verstegen talks with Nathan Piper, the Business, Legislative and Community Relations Manager for the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. They discuss what a thoroughgoing employer engagement actually consists of.

Season 5, Episode 2 — 31 August 2021 About this episode Dale Verstegen, state liaison for the YES! Center, talks with Keith Banner, Katie Blumhorst, Stacy Collins, Alex Corwin and Kelly Schuck, part of the team behind Ohio’s multi-agency Employment First Provider Transformation Initiative. They discuss how they have created an integrated approach for transformation...

You’re listening to YES To Employment a podcast series that seeks to improve competitive integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Today, the guest speaker is Sean Roy who talks with Emily Sherwood and Marta Osuna from the Association for Career and Technical Education or Act II about...

This is the first in a series of podcasts in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). TASH’s interim Executive Director, Serena Lowe talks with Alison Barkoff, the Director of Advocacy, Center for Public Representation. They have a wide-ranging discussion of employment policy and programs for people with disabilities, but Alison remains rooted throughout...