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The Guiding Hand of a Mom
2009-05-10 16:51:00
On April 19, 2009, my organization held its annual gathering called Celebrate Rise! This event gives Rise a wonderful opportunity to pause and celebrate notable achievements and accomplishments of many business leaders, landlords, staff, and program participants who exemplify the spirit of our corporate mission. Celebrate Rise! has become an annual event and is a reminder to everyone associated with our organization about this important work we do in connecting people to jobs, housing, and integrated community involvements. When we connect people to their dreams and it?s these rich human and social experiences that truly transform lives.Celebrate Rise! is always a highlight of the year for me. I enjoy listening to recipients of this recognition articulate in their own words what it means to work together toward a common purpose. And this event always reinforces a simple truth that people with disabilities and other barriers are just like the rest of us trying to navigate their way t...
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Living with a Disability in India
2009-04-13 02:43:00
This past December 2008, my family took a trip of a lifetime to India to attend the wedding of my daughter Kelly to my new son-in-law Sahil Merchant. It was a special and memorable family vacation for obvious reasons. Also, it was a memorable trip because of our exposure to many learning experiences with respect to Indian culture. I?ve always been fascinated by the study of other cultures and this trip offered our family a glimpse of its rich values, traditions, and mores.I share a common career interest with Kelly about the role competitive employment plays in the lives of people with disabilities from other cultures. My daughter works as an employment specialist for Kaposia, Inc., a progressive employment provider serving businesses in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. In addition to Kelly?s role as an employment specialist, she is also Editor for One Step Ahead, Kaposia?s corporate newspaper. Kelly wrote the article below for the newspaper about an Indian woman with a disability...
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Minnesota's Employment First Movement in Mental Health
2009-03-28 00:09:00
Editorial Note: I recently wrote this newsletter article for Minnesota APSE-The Network on Employment . It will be featured soon in our State Chapter's quarterly newsletter issue. However, I thought I would share it here with my blog readers as well. The State of Minnesota recently issued its annual report for 2008 to the State legislature concerning the employment status of Minnesotans living with serious mental illnesses (SMI). Although we have a long way to go, this status report is rich with data and supports the progress Minnesota is making in clearing pathways to the workforce for its residents with SMI.One of the most exciting trends identified in this 2008 report is Minnesota’s gradual transformation to evidence-based practice, supported employment (EBP-SE) to improve the quality of employment outcomes in the State. EBPs are specific service interventions documented to support success in recovery from SMI through clinical research trials.EBP-SE is one of six EBPs in psychi...
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Customized Employment: Redefining Employment Strengths
2009-03-15 14:36:00
For the past three years, I have been writing here about the importance of integrated employment and using strengths-based strategies such as customized and supported employment to promote the employability of youth and adults with disabilities. I appreciate limitations of the written word as a means for communicating and educating the public about these principles. As the old Chinese proverb goes: ?A picture is worth a thousand words.?Well, about a week ago, I received an email from a colleague of mine that communicates about strengths-based employment practices in ways I could never accomplish with my keyboard. It's a short video about two artists who are outstanding ballet dancers. The dance movements of this couple are strikingly beautiful and powerful. And the amazing part of this presentation is that both of the individuals have visible disabilities that would appear on the surface to be illogical to achieving artistic and career success as dancers. I love this piece because ...
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The One Thing You Need to Know
2009-02-15 17:40:00
The One Thing You Need to Know... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success is the title of a book written by one of my favorite authors Marcus Buckingham. This book is an excellent read for managers in private industry and the nonprofit sector alike. The One Thing You Need to Know is provocative and challenges traditional thinking about the primary roles of effective managers and leaders. A number of key management strategies and leadership principles are advanced in this book. And most of them are of high value for managers of disability employment programs. I really enjoyed the chapters on sustained individual success including playing to one’s signature strengths to achieve lasting career growth and success. All of this material was very helpful to organizing my thoughts about management and leadership strategies. However, one particular passage continues to resonate with me since I finished the last chapter and closed the book.In a discussion on le...

Minnesota's Value Proposition
2009-02-02 02:21:00
During this past year, I was invited to participate in a State Leaders Innovation Institute (SLII). The purpose of the SLII is to improve employment opportunities and outcomes of Minnesotans with disabilities. Our group is examining strategies for changing the fundamental landscape of Minnesota?s workforce development system by connecting policies to State and local economic growth and development goals. The SLII is a project initiative of the National Technical Assistance & Research (NTAR) Leadership Center and John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The project objectives for NTAR are sponsored by the Department of Labor?s Office on Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). In early 2008, NTAR selected three states, including Maryland, Connecticut, and Minnesota, on a national competitive bid basis to participate in an intensive 15-month Leadership Institute. These three states were chosen "to become national leaders in ...

Happy New Year, Happy New You!
2009-01-24 23:46:00
After finishing my run at the local YMCA, I walked over to the matted area to stretch. Stretching has become an important post-run activity for a guy who is getting as old as I am. I need to do this to keep the old muscles and joints flexible and ward off potential injuries. Anyway, as I was engaged in a series of stretching routines my attention was distracted by a bulletin board hanging on the wall in front of me. The bulletin board displayed an important message for the Y?s customers. It read?2009 Happy New Year , Happy New You!Forget the Resolutions.Make the Change!Your body will change when it is challenged to change. You know, I'm always amused at how crowded it gets at the YMCA during the first week of January each year. The facility gets over-populated with all of these well-intentioned people who made New Year?s Resolutions to get their bodies back into shape. And slowly but inevitably, the Y?s daily census goes down visibly with each passing week. By the time the end of Fe...
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Employment First: Enlarging the Circle of Partners
2008-12-13 16:04:00
While doing some Internet research recently, I came upon a poem written by American Poet, Edwin Markham. This poem is very short but packs a powerful message. It struck me how fitting this message is for agents of change in the disability and employment-first movement. Markham?s poem is called Outwitted and I have included the text below.He drew a circle that shut me out?Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win,We drew a circle that took him in.Who is he (she)?In our employment-first cause, it?s the people who need gentle and not-so-gentle persuasion. It could be a legislator, government policymaker, vocational rehabilitation counselor, social worker, or a parent or family member. It might be a community rehabilitation agency executive, program director, or direct service staff. It could be an educator, residential provider, psychologist, or mental health professional. It might be a business owner, company executive, human resources director, operations man...
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Yes we can!
2008-11-10 04:25:00
Photo by Getty ImagesOn November 4th 2008, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African American to be elected President of the United States. I can still see the wild elation and pride in the faces of his diverse supporters as he strolled out on stage to acknowledge his election victory. Obama spoke eloquently to the crowd about his amazing journey to the presidency and reaffirmed how tried and true American values are still very much alive today. This improbable election of a black man in a predominantly white America is a socio-political barometer of just how far this country has come in its race relations and goals of inclusion.Obama?s stunning victory aside, there is still a lot of work left to do.This blog is dedicated principally to a discussion about employment and disability related issues. And I have intentionally avoided political discourse here because I believe the employment and self-sufficiency goals of Americans with disabilities is a bi-partisan issue. Th...

Minnesota's 2nd Annual Employment First Summit
2008-10-16 05:10:00
On November 14th, 2008, Minnesota?s Employment First Coalition will host its 2nd Annual Employment First Summit in St. Paul, Minnesota. This event is by invitation only and will be a gathering of almost two hundred people throughout the State of Minnesota. Summit 2?s invited attendees will share one common focus? how to make employment the first and preferred choice of youth and adults with significant disabilities in Minnesota.The outstanding success of Minnesota?s Employment First Summit held in Chaska, Minnesota on June 12, 2007 resulted in the development and distribution of a consensus report and manifesto for change. Minnesota?s Employment First Manifesto, as the report is called, identifies eight core recommendations to substantially increase integrated employment and competitive wages and benefits for Minnesotans with disabilities. In addition, the Manifesto takes a direct aim at defining what employment first means as well as crafting an operational definition of employment...

Top 10 Reasons Why People with Disabilities Should Work
2008-09-21 03:43:00
Poster by Michael O'HarroRecently, I accepted an invitation to speak at a Statewide video conference entitled: The Meaning and Value of Employment of People with Disabilities in Minnesota. This video conference is being planned and sponsored by Pathways to Employment (PTE), Minnesota?s Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG). The mission of PTE is to increase the competitive employment of people with disabilities and meet Minnesota's workforce needs by bringing together people with disabilities, employers, businesses, government, and providers. This upcoming conference is dedicated to a discussion on real values of employment, beyond wages, from the perspective of workers with disabilities. The target audience for the video conference is people with disabilities and family members, County staff, providers of disability-related services, and advocates from all around the State of Minnesota. Appropriately, the event will include perspectives and views of people with disabilities as well...
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Jeffrey Nurick has a job!
2008-08-29 01:12:00
Last week, I downloaded my email and watched as the headers dropped one by one into queue. One message in particular caught my eye??Jeffrey Nurick has a job!?I skipped all of my other unopened mail and went quickly to read the communication from Jeffrey Nurick. The news of Jeffrey?s hire was a welcome end to a long, frustrating job search journey for this colleague and friend of mine. With Jeffrey?s permission, I wanted to share his email in his own words. Here it is...Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,No, your eyes did not deceive you. After much networking, interviews, letter writing campaigns, etcetera, I have finally found a part-time job. The job is working at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis campus) 14 hours per week.I will be working for the Institute on Community Integration. If you click on this link, you will get an overview of what they do. http://ici.umn.edu/More specifically, I will be working on a program within the Institute on Community Integration. The p...

Sound Bites from the 2008 National APSE Conference
2008-07-22 01:14:00
I attended the 19th Annual National APSE Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky on July 9-11 with this year?s annual theme being The Winner?s Circle: Everybody Works! Everybody Wins! I was pleased to share information about the emerging Employment First Movement along with my colleagues, Bob Niemiec from Minnesota APSE?The Network on Employment and Susan Rinne, a leader from Indiana?s Employment First Planning Coalition. Our joint presentation was entitled A Shift in the Force?Employment First. Bob, Susan, and I also facilitated a follow-up workshop on the second day entitled Employment First Everywhere?An Interactive Session on Building Employment First States. Both presentations were well received and it was energizing for the three of us to speak with so many colleagues from around the country who are launching similar initiatives and grappling with the same issues in promoting systems change in their own states.Bob and I shared with the audience how Indiana?s Employment First S...
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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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