YES To Employment

Youth Employment Solution Center

YES! To Employment is a podcast series that seeks to improve competitive, integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Episodes

  1. 09/04/2021

    A Five Year Retrospective on the Partnerships in Employment State Projects, Part II: South Carolina and Utah

    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? What was the role of your Consortium during your PIE project and how will it continue after the grant period ends? What did you learned that would be valuable for other states to know? What are you most proud of as a result of you PIE program? So today we talk with Rebecca Salon, Montrel Tennessee, Jeff White, Johnny Collett, Margaret Van Gelder, David Hoff, Sandy Jordan, Tricia Jones-Parkin and Kelie Hess. This YES Center five year retrospective is in two parts. In Part I we talk with the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Massachusetts. In Part II we hear from South Carolina and Utah. You can find Part I of this podcast here.

    41 min

  2. 09/01/2021

    A Five Year Retrospective on the Partnerships in Employment State Projects, Part I: the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Massachusetts

    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? What was the role of your Consortium during your PIE project and how will it continue after the grant period ends? What did you learned that would be valuable for other states to know? What are you most proud of as a result of you PIE program? So today we talk with Rebecca Salon, Montrel Tennessee, Jeff White, Johnny Collett, Margaret Van Gelder, David Hoff, Sandy Jordan, Tricia Jones-Parkin and Kelie Hess. This YES Center five year retrospective is in two parts. In Part I we talk with the District of Columbia, Kentucky and Massachusetts. In Part II we hear from South Carolina and Utah. You can find Part II of this podcast here.

    1h 6m

  3. 09/01/2021

    Employer Engagement in a Dual Customer Model

    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.

    23 min

  4. 09/01/2021

    Ohio’s Multi-Agency Employment First Provider Transformation Initiative

    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 to community-based integration and employment services for provider agencies throughout Ohio. The podcast highlights their Annual Transformation Summit, transformation communities of practice in each region of the state, direct technical assistance, the role of their Consumer Ambassadors and a robust website with a broad range of transformation resources.

    30 min

  5. 06/21/2021

    Career and Technical Education with Emily Sherwood & Marta Osuna

    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 career and technical education.

    54 min

  6. 10/14/2020

    National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Alison Barkoff

    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 in her experience as a sibling to her brother with disabilities, Evan.

    50 min

  7. 08/31/2020

    Proceed Until Apprehended: WISE’s Innovative Thinking on Supported Employment in the Midst of a Crisis

    Serena Lowe, TASH’s interim Executive Director, talks with Cesilee Coulson, the Executive Director of WISE, the Washington Initiative for Supported Employment. They have the sort of conversation you might expect from two people with such depth of experience in these issues: high-level, broad-ranging, big ideas. But mostly they talk about the necessity to not letting ourselves be limited by systems, processes, the way things have been done in the past during this unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. They discuss the importance of fostering people’s creative thinking and never losing sight of our person-centeredness.

    32 min

  8. 08/27/2020

    COVID-19: The Economic Crisis and Employment for People with Disabilities

    We talk with we talk with Julie Christensen, the Director of Policy and Advocacy at APSE. APSE has recently conducted a major survey of employment service providers about the impact of COVID-19 and its economic consequences for people with disabilities. We talk about the ways the COVID-19 crisis has affected the employment of people with disabilities, from those who can’t work owing to comorbidities associated with their disability, to people who have lost their jobs, to essential workers. Additionally, we discuss the effect on employment support personnel and services. But we also discuss ways that employment for people with disabilities might emerge stronger on the other side of this crisis.

    50 min

  9. 08/20/2020

    What We Can Learn from the Career of Julie Hocker, Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities

    At the TASH conference in December, the YES! Center’s, Dale Verstegen spoke with Julie Hocker, the Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities at the Administration for Community Living at the Department of Health and Human Services. They have a rather personal discussion of Commissioner Hocker’s path to the success she has achieved, the things she learned and the mentors who’ve contributed along the way, but they also discussed the important cultural lessons and policy prescriptions we can take from her career path.

    32 min

  10. 02/28/2020

    Diversity and Inclusion in King County, Washington

    Dale Verstegen talks with Karla Lynch of the King County Department of Community and Human Services and Cesilee Coulson and Chisa O’Quinn from WISE about diversity and inclusion in employment services and how to elicit input from people across cultural barriers.

    35 min
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YES! To Employment is a podcast series that seeks to improve competitive, integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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  • Creator
    Youth Employment Solution Center
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2021
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
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