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Title: Employment Empowerment: A Foundational Intervention for Youth with Disabilities to Build Competitive Employment Skills

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: Despite many years of good work around benefits counseling, work incentives, employment supports, employer education efforts, and nondiscrimination laws, the employment rate among youth with disabilities remains low. A vital missing piece of our disability employment policy is a focus on “employment empowerment.” Employment empowerment instruction gives individuals with disabilities the attitudes and knowledge needed to address their basic fears and enter the competitive labor market. Competitive employment success requires self-confident job seekers who can impress potential employers with their ambition and ability to get the job done. However, the disability experience often dampens the development of these traits. This proposal suggests adopting a more aggressive employment empowerment approach throughout the disability employment policy arena; calls for federal cross-agency working groups to promote employment empowerment; and offers piloted sample materials whose content helps build the employment self-confidence, ambition, focus, and workplace knowledge necessary for youth with disabilities to embrace and pursue their competitive employment potential. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This proposal is dedicated to building the will by showing the way.

Url: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ODEP/pdf/SSI_Youth_Hippolitus_Final_Proposal.pdf

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Authors: Hippolitus, Paul

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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