Reframing the Disability Lens to Increase the Economic Stability Of Youth and Families
Webinar 5 – Customized Employment
Tools and Resources
Webinar Five PPT – Customized Employment
Tools You Can Use
These tools are for you to use and adapt to meet your own planning needs to align and coordinate with other systems to truly improve outcomes for these young people – who are most at-risk to face lifetime of dependency on public benefits
When to use: When engaging with youth, use this tool to discuss and begin capturing strengths and assets. This information can then be used to inform the job seeking/job development process.
Discussion Questions
Customized Employment is when a job is created between employee and employer that is personalized in a way that meets the needs of both.
• How can successful models such as Customized Employment be expanded to serve other job seekers with barriers to employment?
• Do the different terms such as employment coaching versus job coaching mean different things to different audiences?
• Who provides customized employment in your state/community?
• What next steps might we pursue, and what else is needed in terms of technical assistance or other support to move forward on these in your states?
The resources below provide further information for you and your team to use to build your system and services to more effectively assist young people with disabilities aged 14-24 and their families to successfully transition out of the K-12 education into post-secondary education or work.
Resource links:
Customize Employment: Stories and Lessons from the Field
Stories and Lessons Learned
Job Development Plan
Individual Job Development Plan Tool
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition’s (NTACT) Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) Toolkit
https://transitionta.org/cietoolkit
Customized Employment Competency Model
https://www.dol.gov/odep/pdf/2011cecm.pdf#:~:text=Customized%20Employment%20Competency%20Model%20This%20document%20is%20a,and%20a%20process%20%28that%20is%2C%20the%20four%20essential
Customized Employment Through the Eyes of Employers
For a deeper look, click here
Customized Employment Videos and Compendium
https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/CustomizedEmployment.htm
Youth Technical Assistance Center (Y-TAC)
https://y-tac.org/