EEOC Issues Q&A Guide On Disabilities/Employment
Carrie Mason-Draffen Newsday September 4, 2008
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued what it calls a
comprehensive question and answer guide on the rights of workers with
disabilities.
The guides looks at how the Americans With Disabilities Act, which the EEOC
enforces, applies, or doesn't, to a wide range of performance and conduct
issues.
The topics discussed include performance and conduct standards, attendance,
dress codes, drug and alcohol use and the circumstances in which employers can
ask questions about employees' disabilities.
"The EEOC continues to receive numerous questions on these topics from employers
and from individuals with disabilities, indicating that there is still a high
level of uncertainty about how the ADA affects these fundamental personnel
issues," said commission chair Naomi C. Earp.
To view the guide go to:
www.eeoc.gov/facts/performance-conduct.html
Best Practices in Supportive Housing and Employment: The Employer's Perspective
Third in a series of webinars sponsored by the Corporation for Supportive Housing and Enterprise Community Partners
To truly be successful, an employment program for tenants of supportive housing must learn to cultivate positive relationships with employers. Yet making the business case for hiring individuals with many (perceived or actual) barriers to employment—including criminal records, mental illness, substance abuse issues, and/or a limited work history—can be difficult and intimidating. However, there is a strong business case to be made for why employers should hire your residents – and it really works.
Hear from an acclaimed employment placement agency that works with employers to find jobs for ”hard to place” individuals. Click to view an archived recording.
The Bazelon
Center and the UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration have produced a
guide to help consumers and other advocates obtain policies that give consumers
a primary role in their recovery planning and greater control over how resources
are spent to meet their needs. Titled In the Driver’s Seat, the 40-page document
includes advocacy strategies and examples of existing programs’ approaches to
self-directed care. Fact sheets summarize important aspects such as financing.
(link to PDF or to purchase hard copy)
This free audiovisual presentation by the UIC National Research and Training Center covers grassroots organizing, how to create an advocacy plan, negotiation strategies and tactics, and "nuts and bolts" skills building including effective advocacy letter writing, phone calls to policy makers, and managing in-person meetings. Funded by NIDRR and CMHS, the archived webcast is available at www.cmhsrp.uic.edu/nrtc/advocacywebcast.asp.
An Evaluation of the Work of the Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers including the National Empowerment Center, 2002 Report (PDF 1,623KB, 63 pages)
Excerpted from the ROSI Research Team’s 2005 handout entitled Piloting the Recovery Oriented System Indicators (ROSI) Administrative Data Profile and Consumer Self-Report Survey. Please note additional use guidelines in the ROSI instrument description section (PDF - 320.41KB, 17 pages)
One of a series of materials produced by the Evaluation Center@HSRI (PDF - 7,917KB, 254 pages) Please note: This is a very large file.
This is an evaluation of the impact of peer delivered mental health services as part of Project Liberty following 9/11 (PDF - 965.83KB, 79 pages)
Peer Support by Consumers Relieves the Traumas of Disasters and Facilitates Recovery from Mental Illness. By Daniel Fisher, National Empowerment Center (NEC), with assistance from Kay Rote, Oklahoma; LaVerne Miller, New York; David Romprey, Oregon; and Beth Filson, Georgia (PDF - 432KB, 15 pages, published September, 2006)
By the National Empowerment Center (NEC) and the Recovery Consortium, published October 2006. Please note: This is a very large file. For additional information go to the Recovery Consortium page.
(PDF 2MB - 104 pages)
Effects of participation in consumer-operated service programs on both personal and organizationally mediated empowerment: Results of multisite study by E. Sally Rogers, ScD; Gregory B. Teague, PhD; Carolyn Lichenstein, PhD; Jean Campbell, PhD; Asya Lyass, MA; Ren Chen, MS; Steven Banks, PhD. (PDF, 15 pages, 233KB)
For Trauma-Informed materials & trainers, email
jmckinney@mhasp.org
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