Links: Employment Supports

Supported Employment

• AAMR SE Fact Sheet
• Association of Persons in Supported Employment (APSE)
• Evidence Based Practices Shaping MH treatment toward recovery
• The Center for Reintegration-MH employment

Vocational Rehabilitation

• Office of Rehabilitation Services (ORS)

Employment

• Office of Disability Policy
• Rhode Island Department of Labor & Training
• RI Labor Market Information
• NetWORKri

Self Employment

• Small Business Administration
• The Small Business and Self-Employment Service (SBSES)
• Self-Employment T-TAP on-line seminar

Resources for Employers

• RI Business Leadership Network
• Leveraging and Untapped Resource
• Disability Network 101 Guide Book
• Office Disability Employment Policy-Business Focus
• Reasonable Accomodations & ADA Fact Sheet (PDF)
• US Business Leadership Network
• US Chamber of Commerce Fact Sheet - Tax Credits (PDF)
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for a Competitive Workforce (2006)

ADA

• ADA Primer for Small Business
• ADA Technical Assistance Center
• Equal Opportunity Publications
• Your ADA rights as a person with a disability
• RI Governor's Commission on Disability
• ADA Audio Conference

Social Security Administration Work

• SSA The Work Site
• SSA REDBOOK for work Incentives
• Work Incentives Planning & Assistance (WIPA) On The Rhode To Independence (PDF)

Job Seekers

• Career Decision Making Resources
• Job Access
• Vocational Rehabilitation - RI DHS/Office of Rehabilitation Services
• Proyecto Vision: First National Technical Assistance Center for Latinos with Disabilities
• Guide to Requesting a Reasonable Job Accommodation

Job Accomodation Information

• Abledata
• Job Accomodation Network
• RI Assistive Technology Project

Training & Supported Employment

• Institute for Community Inclusion
• New England Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (NERCEP)
• New England Regional Continuing Education Programs for Community Rehabilitation Program Personnel (RCEP/CRP)
• Sherlock Center on Disabilities
• Training & Technical Assistance for Providers (T-TAP)
• Training Resource Network
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Employment Support Institutes
• Worksupport.com- VCU Research and Training Center

Career Management

• RI Higher Education, Preparing for College
• RIDLT RI Red
• O*NET
• Best Practice in Transition
• Disability Employment Handbook

Miscellaneous

• CARF
• Center for Self Determination
• RI DD Agencies funded by MHRH
• RI MH Agencies funded by MHRH
• Federal Citizen Information Center
• The Point
• RI Chambers of Commerce
• RI Resources Links- Rhodes to Independence