[Colorado-talk] Workforce and Rehabilitation Stats?

[James Beal]

Your information is interesting for a couple of reasons. As you know, 
Colorado's Department of Vocational Rehabilitation will now be managed 
under the Colorado Department of Labor, the same people who operate our 
workforce locations. They already have their own case managers for 
working with disabled people, and, from what I can tell, they know 
absolutely nothing about work with blind consumers. I don't know what 
makes our state leadership think that this movement away from the 
Department of Social Services in and of itself will improve services 
for the blind as those same less than knowledgeable staff will be 
placed in positions as rehabilitation counselors as these jobs become 
available. We will have to reteach them about what blind consumers need 
and they may or may not be of any more help than they have been 
previously. We need to seriously examine the possibility of developing 
privately managed services for the blind as government has so far 
demonstrated that we are not a high priority.

James Beal
bealcorgi at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Everett Gavel via Colorado-talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: colorado-talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Everett Gavel <everett at everettgavel.com>
Sent: Sat, May 23, 2015 1:36 pm
Subject: [Colorado-talk] Workforce and Rehabilitation Stats?

Below are some rather depressing numbers from
Ohio's workforce & rehab stats. Ohio is where I
lived before moving here to Colorado in 2012. Can
anyone point me to Colorado's stats for work,
success, and failure rates for rehab clients,
please?

Thanks,
Everett


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Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 15:40:47 -0400
From: Eric Duffy <peduffy63 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Ohio-talk] Interesting figures

Ohio
In Ohio, the workforce participation rate of
people with disabilities has remained fairly low
at only 33.8%. Compare that number with the
general population without disabilities who are
employed at a rate of where 75.9%. There are
812,500 working age Ohioans with disabilities and
of those who are vocational rehabilitation
clients, 3,510 were able to find jobs. Governor
John Kasich made Ohio an "Employment First" state
by decree and there are several model programs,
including Project SEARCH, which originated in
Ohio. However, progress has been hampered by the
fact that the state returned $18,215,538 to
Washington. This hurts economic prospects for
people with disabilities--especially the 50,300
Ohioans between the ages of 16 to 20 by not
continuing to fund these vocational rehabilitation
programs.




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