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Minnesota on the Move!
2008-06-28 01:50:00
Recently, I was asked by the Board of Minnesota APSE?The Network on Employment and Minnesota?s Employment First Coalition to represent our respective groups in providing public testimony at Minnesota?s State Rehabilitation Advisory Council?s public hearing on June 25, 2008. The purpose of this public hearing was to seek feedback from the public about unmet needs for disability related employment services in Minnesota, and about public satisfaction with current services.There have been so many positive developments in Minnesota in the last couple of years. And so I was honored to share my observations as well as our Coalition?s views about some of the progress being made within our State with respect to making employment the preferred choice of Minnesotans with disabilities. I have reproduced my presentation to the Advisory Committee with some minor and updated edits. Here is the text of my remarks.My name is Don Lavin and I work at Rise, Incorporated. I am here today as a board memb...
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Thanks!
2008-06-23 18:16:00
This is the 100th post since starting my blog A New Vision back in January, 2005. During this period, I?ve had more than 14,600 visitors from places all around the world. I?ve learned there is a growing interest out there in blogosphere about the importance and value of expanding and widening integrated employment opportunities in the lives of youth and adults with disabilities. And there is a growing hunger for sharing critical information in support of organizations dealing with leadership, policy and fiscal management, and service delivery change objectives. I started A New Vision with a simple goal in mind. Three years later, this goal has not changed. In my judgment, we are living in a time of unprecedented opportunities for change if we have the courage to consider a new vision and act with purpose, clarity, and creativity in pursuing it. My intention is to to keep the national, State, and local dialogue alive, challenge conventional thinking about what is possible, and offer ...

It's all about the Benjamins baby!
2008-06-08 03:36:00
As Minnesota’s Employment First movement carries forward, my colleagues and I are faced with addressing an historical, logistical problem. In this demand-driven workforce development system, how do we capture the imagination and creativity of the private sector? How do we create interest and high demand for our product? How do we encourage employers to take charge and drive our current system of employing people with disabilities?My colleagues and I recognize the high importance of engaging Minnesota’s corporations and businesses, both large and small, to get behind the fundamental idea of full employment of adults with disabilities. Yes, it’s a tall task. The employer education, business marketing, and technical assistance efforts of employment providers serving youth and adults with significant disabilities have been weak and fallen far short of the mark. In 2008, there are still too many adults with disabilities either unemployed or not working competitively in the local ec...
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A Tribute to a Colleague & Friend
2008-05-27 02:53:00
Editor?s Note: At its annual meeting held on May 19, 2008, Minnesota APSE?The Network on Employment honored Jackie Mlynarczyk, CEO of Kaposia, Inc. for her career achievements and contributions in advancing supported employment opportunities for Minnesotans with disabilities. As CEO of Kaposia for more than 30 years, Jackie blazed a trail promoting the idea that youth and adults with significant disabilities should be a working force in Minnesota?s economy. Under Jackie?s leadership, Kaposia transformed a traditional ?day program? into a viable business partnership with private industry. She was a pioneer in advancing a vision that adults with significant disabilities could be economic assets and contributing members of our workforce when we work to identify and market their innate interests, talents, and strengths.The article presented below first appeared in Kaposia?s corporate newsletter One Step Ahead. I was given permission by the newsletter?s editor (who happens to be a close ...
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Managing Time and Priorities for Success
2008-05-03 19:35:00
A few months ago, I received a call from the Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program (RCEP) for Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia. My colleagues at VCU were calling regarding my interest in facilitating training for middle-managers and direct service practitioners of supported employment (SE) programs. The first inquiry was about doing practical leadership training with middle-managers of SE programs. And then came forward an unexpected request. Don, would you be willing to do time management training with practitioners of SE services?I hesitated for a moment. Time management training? Me? Sure, I’ve attended time management workshops over the years, but I’ve never conducted time management training. Although I have my own methods for getting things done, I’ve never been accused of being the most highly organized employee in my organization. Initially, I wasn’t sure I was the right person for this job...
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The Sunset of Work Enclaves and Crews
2008-04-19 22:40:00
About a week and a half ago, my agency went through a three-day CARF accreditation survey to renew its certification as an employment service provider for persons with disabilities and other barriers to employment. For those unfamiliar with CARF, it?s a national peer accreditation body designed to improve services and outcomes for recipients of rehabilitation, habilitation, and employment service programs. The accreditation procedure involves a process where trained surveyors meet with senior management, direct service staff, and key stakeholders of an organization including program participants, employers, family members, referring and funding agents, and others. The survey team examines an organization?s compliance with nationally accepted, defined standards and then advises about performance in relationship to these standards.The survey team sent to my organization, Rise, Incorporated, examined our administrative and program compliance with more than 800 national standards. I am ...
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Battle of the Zubaz
2008-03-07 05:07:00
Editor?s Note:On Friday, I was forwarded a link to a website by a colleague. I read with much amusement an editorial challenging a consensus report and recommendations flowing from Minnesota?s Employment First Summit held last June, 2007. The opinion article was written by John Wayne Barker of Merrick Inc., a provider of services for adults with developmental disabilities in St. Paul, Minnesota.I don?t know John Wayne Barker and we?ve never been formally introduced. However, he seems to have a good sense of humor. On his editorial page, he says that we should take his opinions with a grain of salt. After all, he does own and wears a pair of Zubaz. After reading his editorial, I want to say publicly that we seem to have at least one thing in common. I also own pair of Zubaz as you can see in the photo to the left. It?s perhaps a small place to start but I am willing to work with Mr. Barker to build a better community and workforce in Minnesota that welcomes the full participation of ...
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A Working Life
2008-02-20 05:33:00
On Friday, I had an unexpected meeting cancellation and it changed my planned schedule for midday. So I decided to take an earlier lunch period and burn some calories instead of my usual tradition in consuming them. I took in an early run at the YMCA that I was hoping to do after work.As I was racing around the track my eyes locked in a "double take" with a middle age man who was working out on one of the Y?s many exercise machines. I kind of recognized him but I couldn?t associate a name with his familiar face. I was thinking that I knew him from many years ago. From his body language, I was certain that he had recognized me too. So I continued on with my run circling endlessly around the track. I passed by him several times as he worked out on different weight machines.It occurred to me that I probably knew this gentleman through my work at Rise, Incorporated. I remembered him as a much younger man with an intellectual disability who was referred to us for employment services. How...
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Humbled by Simplicity
2008-02-07 03:10:00
I?ve spent a lot of time in the past month talking with people about our need for leadership in promoting an employment first vision in Minnesota and introducing wide-spread practices to increase job placement, customized employment, and competitive wages for youth and adults with disabilities in our community's workforce.And so it goes, I was entering the YMCA in downtown Minneapolis earlier this week for an evening run when my eye caught notice of a handwritten note on a bulletin board greeting people in the Y's entry way.It was a quote that said simply and eloquently:"The world would sleep if things were run by those who say?"It can?t be done."-Philander JohnsonNow there is a nourishing and encouraging message for proponents of organizational practice and systems policy change! Sometimes we make it so hard and complex when simplicity and a more direct approach will do. On this particular night, Philander Johnson's words were more energizing than my run.
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Viva El Manifesto!
2008-01-27 16:09:00
As I have shared here in other posts, I am a member of Minnesota?s Employment First Coalition and assisted in the planning of a statewide employment summit. The purpose of the summit was to begin planning a coordinated strategy to increase the competitive employment and economic development goals of Minnesotans with a wide array of disabilities. The Minnesota Employment First Summit was the result of these efforts and this event was held in Chaska, Minnesota on June 12, 2007. The Summit was attended by an invited group of more than 100 employment-first champions representing government, education, community-based service providers, business, and disability advocacy organizations. Despite many breakthroughs in education methods, school transition strategies, employment practices, and emerging technologies, most Minnesotans with significant disabilities are not working in integrated jobs in the workforce at competitive wages and benefits. When customary standards for competitive emplo...
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Customized & Supported Employment: The Evidence Demands a Verdict
2008-01-12 04:50:00
The political season is in full swing and it always brings highly charged verbal exchanges among the candidates running for presidential office. I watched with both interest and amusement as the Hillary Clinton camp recently accused Barack Obama of raising "false hopes." The brouhaha between them went like this?"We don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered," Clinton said."This whole notion of false hopes bothers me," Obama replied. "There is no such thing as false hopes. We can focus and get things done."Obama went further: "How have we made progress in this country? Look, did John F. Kennedy look at the moon and say ?Ahhhh, it?s too far. We can?t do that. We need a reality check.' Dr. King standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. ?You know, this Dream thing, it?s a false hope. We can?t expect equality. False hopes.'Wow! You know, I don?t have a dog in this fight and it?s not my intention here to promote a political candidate. I am ...
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A Christmas Message
2007-12-27 01:30:00
It?s Christmas Eve and the new snowfall in Minnesota over this holiday weekend has helped to set the mood of the season. For me, it?s been a time for enjoying the blessings of family, friends, and the season?s good tidings. And our four-day holiday weekend is a great time for slowing things down and reflecting on life?s journey. I?ve done just that.Tonight, CNN, the cable network, ran a holiday special called What would Jesus do? This show examined current political events and queried theologians about how Jesus would handle vexing problems such as war in today?s world. The show was crafted on theoretical principles and it raised interesting questions about current world events with reasoned answers from invited biblical scholars. The fundamental question posed to the theologians was this?How would Jesus tackle our world challenges in 2007?This show got me to thinking about this concept in my own world. I launched this blog three years ago because I believe we need a new vision abou...
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What do we really value?
2007-11-23 19:15:00
Today is Thanksgiving Day and I am grateful for the many blessings in my life. Professionally, I am thankful to live in a community that understands and acknowledges the importance of evidenced-based supported employment in the recovery of adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) and serious mental illnesses (SMI). With that said, my bar of authenticity has been raised a notch higher. I need more than platitudes and expressions about a progressive vision. I need to see in action what we say we really value.During last week?s Democratic Party Presidential Debate in Las Vegas aired on 11-15-07, Senator Joseph Biden from Delaware had this to say? "My Dad had this expression, God love him, before the passed away. He?d say, ?Don?t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I will tell you what you value.?As a true a statement as one will hear from a candidate running for Presidential office. I don?t know about you but I am tired of empty words. I?ve grown weary lis...

Satyagraha?Driving change through peaceful resistance & commitment to truth
2007-11-05 01:25:00
Editors Note: A couple of months ago, my oldest daughter, Kelly Lavin, shared the exciting news that she is engaged to be married to a young man she has been dating for the past three years. Her boyfriend, Sahil Merchant is from India, and the couple has decided to hold their wedding ceremony in Mumbai in 2008. Needless to say, my entire family will be traveling to India next year to attend the wedding and finally meet Sahil?s family.Kelly?s news has stimulated a lot of interest within our family about India and its culture. As a way of preparing for our trip, we have been reading a lot of material and renting movies to gain a better understanding about the similarities and differences of our countries. A week ago, we rented the movie "Gandhi" to learn more about how India had gained its independence and formed a new democracy. As many of you know, Gandhi won nine academy awards in 1982 including Best Picture of the Year. I did see this movie shortly after its release, however, it h...
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The Long Way Home
2007-10-21 20:02:00
"We must be the change we wish to see."-GhandiOn October 15, 2007, I was invited to speak at the Minnesota Coalition for the Home less? (MCH) Annual Conference in Alexandria, Minnesota. The theme for this year?s conference was "Homelessness: Understanding the Beginning and Demanding an End." As a presenter, I was asked to share information about what my organization is doing to integrate customized employment assistance for individuals and families who are homeless and others at risk of homelessness who are dealing with housing crises.I am a senior manager at Rise, Incorporated and we administer programs offering homelessness outreach and emergency services, transitional and affordable housing services, access to rental subsidy programs, individualized supported living services, adult rehabilitative mental health services, job placement, and supported employment services. At Rise, our signature expertise is supporting homeless individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI), chemical...
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Unemployment. It's 100% Curable.
2007-09-24 03:40:00
I know you are going find this shocking and perhaps a bit hard to believe. However, the Geico "Caveman" commercials have been officially knocked out of first place as my favorite TV ad series. Yep, it?s true. My new favorite ads are now being run locally here in the Minneapolis TV viewing area by Gillette Children?s Hospital. Let me tell you about it.This ad starts out with a really cute four-year old girl named Lila doing what a lot of four-year olds do. She is playing grown-up and baking a cake in her toy oven. With only background noise for sound, Lila moves about her play activities with skill and a contagious smile. The ad quickly draws you in and then you notice that something doesn?t look quite right. Before the viewer is able integrate the information into a cohesive thought, Lila pulls her "baked goods" from the toy oven using a custom fit prosthetic hand and she offers it to the camera.In a moment, the ad whacks you on the side of the head with its text message?Pity. It?s ...
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Reflections on Minnesota's Employment First Summit
2007-09-10 03:37:00
On June 12, 2007, an "Employment First Summit " was held in the State of Minnesota at the Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota. The goal of the Summit?s planning committee was to bring together key constituents throughout Minnesota who believe strongly in the idea that integrated employment in the workforce at competitive wages should be the expected and first choice of Minnesotans with significant disabilities. The Summit?s planners invited people with disabilities, family members, disability advocates, educators, government policymakers, business leaders, employment service providers, human services professionals, veteran representatives, and other interested citizens to participate in the event.The purpose for the Summit was simple. A high percentage of Minnesotans with significant disabilities are not working competitively and contributing their talents to our economy. Despite national research and service demonstrations showcasing the employment capacities of people with disabilities ...
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You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello
2007-08-19 19:10:00
You say goodbye and I say helloHello, helloI don't why you say goodbye, I say helloHello, helloI don't why you say goodbye, I say helloThese are the famous lines from Hello, Goodbye written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and performed by the Beatles in 1967. These timeless lyrics are resonating with me lately.This past year, I have said "goodbye" to three of my closest colleagues who together had logged more than 60 years of professional service to Rise, Incorporated. All three had contributed significantly to our organization's mission and success. And all three have now moved forward in their careers to continue the cause in other venues. As McCartney once wrote "The Long and Winding Road" has lead these three leaders to other doors. And all three will be missed.These three leaders are Melinda Shamp, Becky Fink, and Tony Gantenbein.After leaving her position as Rise?s Mental Health Professional and Director of our Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS), Melinda ...

Universal Access & Design Means Universal Benefits
2007-07-31 01:37:00
OK, so maybe I?m not the sharpest blade in the tool shed. And I will admit that it took me a few years to figure this out. But hey, I arrived and I?m so glad I did.One morning on my drive to work, I had this epiphany and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Like many professionals who chose a career in my field, I was drawn to this work I do because I wanted to make a difference. I had good intentions. I wanted to support people with disabilities in finding real jobs for real pay in the workforce. And I had been trained professionally to approach this goal from a model of "rehabilitation." The rehab model is driven by this sort of thinking: If we can identify each individual?s job barriers arising from one or more disability conditions, then we can develop a rehabilitation plan to address and remove them. In a nutshell, unemployed people with disabilities referred to us had certain "deficiencies" associated with their disabilities and it was our job to correct these shortcomings so peopl...
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The Perfect Storm
2007-06-18 15:20:00
On October 30, 1991, three autonomous weather systems produced dramatic meteorological factors resulting in a monster weather system off the east coast of Nova Scotia in Canada. The National Weather Service referred to this confluence of meteorological factors as "The Perfect Storm ." The storm produced such catastrophic waves in the Atlantic ocean that it sank an unsuspecting sword fishing boat called the Andrea Gail. Pinned in by these awesome weather systems, the Andrea Gail had no real chance. The ship gave up its captain and crew and its tragic storyline became the basis for Sebastian Junger?s best-selling novel The Perfect Storm . Later, the novel was produced into a blockbuster movie by the same name in 2000.Recently, I have been using this metaphor The Perfect Storm to describe a confluence of interrelated factors that are producing unprecedented opportunities in the workforce for adults with disabilities and other barriers to employment. I shared these views about The Perfect...

The Strengths Revolution
2007-05-04 02:36:00
"Find a small stream in which your strengths can flow and then see if you can carve it into the Mississippi."--------------------------Ma rcus BuckinghamAbout a week ago, I stole a little time away from work to visit my family in California. As I was getting dressed early one morning, I turned on the TV in my hotel room to catch the day?s news and weather. The TV was already set to a channel running The Today Show and Tiki Barber, a former professional football player turned TV interviewer, was doing a feature story about Marcus Buckingham, a business management researcher, author, and consultant. I confess I had never heard of Marcus Buckingham prior to viewing the Today Show story. My gosh, where have I been?! Within moments, I sitting on the end of my hotel bed gripped by Buckingham?s message. He talked with Barber about a movement he is leading called The Strengths Revolution . Buckingham is a best-selling author of several books dedicated to identifying and promoting strengths-ba...

Washington State's Working Age Adult Policy
2007-04-13 06:26:00
I recently had the opportunity to attend a presentation by a team of professionals from the State of Washington . Our guests from Washington State were invited to take part in a video series about innovations in supporting employment for adults with significant disabilities. This video series is being sponsored by Pathways to Employment (PTE), the State of Minnesota?s Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (WIG). The panel presentation by the Washington group was fascinating and I took away two fundamental principles critically important to expanding integrated employment outcomes in the workforce in Minnesota (and presumably elsewhere).My first observation about Washington?s presentation was the importance of bringing clarity and a strong policy foundation to an articulated vision. On July 1, 2006, Washington became the first state in the nation to develop a Working Age Adult Policy (WAAP), thereby, mandating a new direction promoting competitive employment in the workforce at living wages f...
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Customized Employment is Heating Up in the Desert!
2007-03-20 00:26:00
Last week, I had the honor to speak with three dedicated groups of Arizonans about customized employment (CE) practices to increase workforce opportunities for adults with serious mental illnesses (SMI). I was invited to come to the desert by Arizona’s Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and collaborating behavioral health and community rehabilitation programs serving the State of Arizona. It was a whirlwind tour with scheduled presentations on consecutive days in Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix.I had the opportunity to share information about CE fundamentals with vocational rehabilitation counselors, behavioral health professionals, job placement specialists, post-secondary educators, consumer advocates, and program managers of mental health programs from each of these three regions of the State. And I was inspired by the enthusiastic response of these dedicated professionals searching for new answers to address the stubborn unemployment and underemployment of youth and a...
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It's Coming!! Minnesota's Employment First Summit
2007-02-21 21:29:00
Editorial Note: I am a member of Minnesota APSE-The Network on Employment and serve on this organization’s Board of Directors. In the past year, Minnesota APSE has been leading a statewide effort to promote employment as the first choice for Minnesotans with significant disabilities. We are not talking here about any type of employment, but rather individualized, integrated employment in regular jobs at competitive wages and benefits inside the Minnesota workforce. In support of this initiative, Minnesota ASPE is collaborating with other State, county, and private organizations, business leaders, disability service professionals, consumers with disabilities, family members, legislators and policymakers, and interested citizens to plan an Employment First Summit in our State. In 2006, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at a summit with a similarly defined purpose in the State of Indiana. Indiana’s Employment First Summit was a successful venture and led to consensus about ...
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Raymond's Room: Ending the Segregation of People with Disabilities
2007-02-04 14:19:00
I was recently given the opportunity to review the unpublished galley proof of a new book scheduled for release by its publisher Training Resource Network on February 15, 2007. The book is entitled Raymond’s Room : Ending the Segregation of Adults with Disabilities. This publication was written by Dale DiLeo, a long-time colleague of mine and staunch advocate of supported employment. For those who don’t know DiLeo, he is a well-known speaker, trainer, consultant, and a publisher of books and a national newsletter called InfoLines. DiLeo is an outstanding and tireless advocate promoting the job placement and integration of adults with significant disabilities in the workforce and community. Once Raymond’s Room arrived, I thumbed through its chapter titles slowly. I knew immediately I was embarking on a journey with much familiar terrain. Take a close look at the topics DiLeo has chosen to address: Chapter One: Institutional Life Chapter Two: Labeling and the Disability Industria...
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A Small Business Success Story
2007-01-13 16:32:00
Pictured in the photo above from left to right are Mary Zins, Rise Board of Director, Bertha Hsaio, Rise Chief Financial Officer, Don Lavin, Rise Vice President, John Barrett Rise President (photo), Mary Stransky, Human Resources Manager, Beth DePoint, Rise Public Relations and Communications Manager, Lynn Noren, Chief Operating Officer, and Clifford Lozinski from Johnson West & Company.As I drove into the hotel ramp in downtown Minneapolis, I wasn’t quite sure if I belonged with this crowd. Here I was driving my five-year old Saturn into the building and found myself competing for a parking space with someone driving a Lexus RV. In fact, the hotel ramp was filled with BMWs, Cadillacs, and other luxury cars befitting highly successful business people.On this evening, I was headed to a dinner reception and celebration being sponsored by TwinCities Business Magazine and Associated Bank. It was an event held to honor the achievements of nine small businesses in Minnesota. I am pr...
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A Holiday Greeting!
2006-12-29 03:31:00
As we dash through the holiday season and approach the end of another calendar year, I’ve been spending time reflecting about the critical contributions of many people who go that extra mile to make integrated employment in the workforce a real possibility for people with significant disabilities.To business leaders who took a chance and made a good business decision to customize jobs for applicants with significant disabilities,To individuals with significant disabilities who resisted the status quo and entrusted their career development dreams to progressive programs that specialize in integrated employment practices,To determined parents and family members who stood in unwavering support of their loved ones’ dreams to work in regular jobs in the community labor force;To secondary and post-secondary educators who helped to develop and nurture the knowledge, skills, and abilities of youth and young adults with significant disabilities so they could enroll in higher education pr...
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"Heart of the City" Works at Circuit City
2006-12-10 17:11:00
In the past month, I learned about a customized employment arrangement negotiated with Circuit City by one of my organization's brightest and skilled job placement specialists, Ms. Melissa Reller. Reller works with our talented team in St. Cloud, Minnesota called Central Minnesota Work s. Reller and I collaborated on this feature below. As part of a growing trend to employ Minnesotans with significant disabilities, Circuit City - St. Cloud has tapped into an unconventional resource and is partnering with Rise Incorporated’s Central Minnesota Works (CMW) Office in St. Cloud, Minnesota. This unconventional workforce strategy is called customized employment.In 2006, Circuit City rolled out its new Hear t of the City corporate campaign. And General Manager, Shawn Pettigrew, had been looking for an opportunity to help his St. Cloud store connect with the community. The national electronic retailer is encouraging its individual stores to facilitate their own community outreach and integr...
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Whenever they say this, what they REALLY mean is...
2006-12-03 14:30:00
Almost one year ago, I wrote what has become one of my most popular posts on the blog. The post was entitled Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. This article was a satirical look at silly questions I fielded in 2005 and some of faulty reasoning leaking through about why customizing employment was not a possibility for people with significant disabilities. The title Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions was borrowed from a popular feature run in MAD Magazine and written by one of the great social philosophers of our generation Mr. Al Jaffee.Well anyway, I am proud to announce that I'm still MAD! I am sure this news comes as a great shock and surprise to many of my readers and colleagues. And so to further demonstrate that "you just can’t take the MAD out of the boy," I offer yet another satirical feature from the archives of this irreverent but socially relevant magazine. This classic featured in MAD was entitled: Whenever they say this, what they REALLY mean is... Alright, so let's...
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Wage Compensation: Attracting & Retaining Qualified Professionals
2006-11-08 04:30:00
Two days ago, somebody who chose to remain anonymous left a comment on my blog in response to a recent post entitled Strolling Down Memory Lane. This individual’s comments were a bit off topic and not directly related to my post. However, I thought the visitor made some interesting points making it worthy of uploading as a post of its own. I have included this visitor’s unedited comments below. Immediately following the visitor’s remarks, I offer a reaction of my own. Please feel free to offer your own responses or viewpoints on this subject in the comment section to generate discussion. "I know this is not a related topic but I wanted to get peoples’ thoughts and opinions on the internal and external perceptions of being a Vocational Rehabilitation Prof ession al. I recently completed an AmeriCorps term with a large vocational rehab company in the metro area. First off I would like to say that the company I worked for did a very good job of trying to provide quality services ...
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