• Apprenticeships: Understanding the Funding and Opportunities – This Webinar takes a deeper dive into apprenticeships, providing opportunities to learn its benefits, systems of successful implementation and possible funding sources.
  • Customized Employment: Funding, Fidelity and the Future – In this webinar, panelists discuss best approaches for funding Customized Employment (CE) efforts. It explores available CE funding sources and the necessary financial considerations for providers incorporating CE into their service offerings. The webinar concludes with a participant discussion on how to provide tangible steps for increasing access to CE funding.
  • Successful Customized Employment Examples for Veterans – During this webinar a panelist introduces several Veterans who have successfully transitioned from the military into civilian jobs with the assistance of CE. The veterans' success stories are entwined with the definition of CE, highlights of key principles and how they can be integrated into current practices to improve Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) for Veterans.
  • Employers' Perspective on Customized Employment – On a quest to determine the economic impact of hiring individuals into customized jobs, subject matter experts interview employers in Iowa and Maryland to understand how and why they have embraced customized employment.
  • Inclusive Apprenticeship: The Future of Work – In this webinar, presenters from ODEP discuss how inclusive apprenticeship can facilitate entry into well-paying careers in high-growth, high-demand fields for underrepresented population groups, including youth and adults with disabilities. The presentation highlights how the Apprenticeship Inclusive Model (AIM) initiative fosters access to career pathways in information technology, healthcare and advanced manufacturing for marginalized population groups.
  • Employer's Perspective: Hiring and Developing Employees with Disabilities – In this webinar, hear from Jeremy Shapira, with Special Projects, Inclusion and Diversity at Giant Eagle, Inc., on innovative ways his organization has made hiring and including people with disabilities part of the workplace culture.
  • Employer Perspective: Innovative Case Studies Involving Workers with Disabilities – During this webinar, participants learn first-hand from organizations across the country who are hiring people with disabilities in their business model. Some are utilizing technology to increase productivity while others customize jobs and provide reasonable accommodations.
  • Customized Employment: Managing the Employer Engagement Process – This webinar focuses on CE from the perspective of the employer and addresses strategies for identifying the needs of employers that lead to successful customization of jobs.