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GENERAL DISABILITY INFORMATION
Disability Employment 101 from the U.S. Department of Education. Lesson One explains resources available in your community and how you can connect you with qualified workers.
Early-Onset Alzheimer's
Many people with early-onset are in their 40s and 50s. Up to 10 percent of people with Alzheimer’s have early-onset. In the United States, that’s about 400,000 people.
A Resource Guide To Recruiting, Hiring, and Employing People with Disabilities (.pdf) This guide developed by the Business Leadership Network provides practical information on recruiting, communication with, interviewing, and supervising workers with disabilities.
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Information For Employers This page links the user to numerous resources relating to recruitment, training, and retention of qualified employees.
Focus on ability: Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities from the U.S. Office of Disability Employment Policy. The job interview plays a critical role in the hiring process, allowing them the opportunity to identify the individual who possesses the best mix of knowledge, skills and abilities for the position available. The information may assist employers in ensuring maximum benefit from an interview when the person being interviewed happens to have a disability.
Recruiting and Retaining the Best from America's Largest Untapped Talent Pool An article from the Journal of Rehabilitation, available through paid databases or for a fee.
Resources on Recruiting and Hiring People with Disabilities from Worksupport.com of Virginia Commonwealth University's Research and Training Center on Work Supports. This website offers a vast array of resources relating to the recruitment, hiring, training, and management of workers with disabilities.
Disability and HR: Tips for HR Professionals From the Employment and Disability Institute of Cornell University, this site provides access to excellent resources on specific disabilities including strategies for accommodating functional limitations in the workplace.
Job Accommodations Network (JAN) JAN is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by: 1) providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, 2) providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and 3) educating callers about self-employment options.
Accommodation Information by Disability: A to Z This list of terms, from JAN, allows you to acquire information about certain disabilities and how to accommodate individuals who are experiencing difficulties on the job.
Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
ADA Great Lakes Technical Center Also known as The Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center(DBTAC), this organization provides information, materials, technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Topics addressed includes the non-discrimination requirements in employment, the obligations of state and local governments and business to ensure that programs, services and activities are readily accessible to and useable by people with disabilities. This includes access to the information
Partnership for Prevention is a membership organization of businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies advancing policies and practices to prevent disease and improve the health of all Americans. We seek to increase investment in preventing disease and promoting health and to make prevention a national priority.
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By analyzing leading edge scientific research, we identify effective policies and practices that should be adopted to accelerate progress towards better health for all Americans.
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We convene diverse healthcare stakeholders and facilitate dialogue among them to assess critical issue
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We educate decision-makers in every sector about innovative prevention policies and practices, provide analytical tools to aide implementation, and advocate adoption of these approaches.
SPECIFIC DISABILTY INFORMATION
Reasonable Accommodations for People with Psychiatric Disabilities This site, from the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation of Boston University, was made possible by a grant from the Tower Foundation, a family foundation that supports research and dissemination of information about people with psychiatric disabilities. Employers and educators need practical information about reasonable accommodations for people who have psychiatric disabilities. Here's what is available at this site:
An Employer's Guide to Behavioral Health Services. A roadmap and recommendations for evaluating, designing and implementing behavioral health services. This Guide is a blueprint of strategies and best-practice recommendations that will allow employers to create and implement a system of affordable, effective and high quality behavioral health services.
MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WORK PLACE
Worksite Resources and Information
Depression in the Workplace This Fact sheet from Mental Health America
Healthy Mind Connection A collaborative effort between the Mental Health America of Wisconsin and the business community, this group provides education, tools and resources to address mental health in the workplace. This site offers fact sheets, links, and mental health friendly workplace resources for employers.
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When an Employee is Depressed (pdf) includes signs of depression in the workplace as well as resources.
Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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A Mental Health Friendly Workplace: It's in Every Company's Best Interest. - Business Materials for a Mental Health Friendly Workplace: Executives Booklet
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Mental Health: It's a Part of Our Lives at Work - This fact sheet is designed to help people in the workplace who have a mental illness.
Related Service Resources
Accommodation Information by Disability: A to Z This list of terms, from JAN, allows you to acquire information about certain disabilities and how to accommodate individuals who are experiencing difficulties on the job.
Community Mental Health Services
Employer Resources from Mental Health America of Wisconsin, which provides information, referrals, support, education and employer resources.
Learning Disabilities Association of Wisconsin "promote(s) awareness, communication and understanding between parents, adults with LD, educators and the community."
Vocational Rehabilitation service locations are an excellent source for identifying local mental health service providers in your county that have experience working with employment and employers issues.
Wisconsin Rehabilitation Association - The Job Placement Division has a long history of providing mental health services to employers.
VISION AND HEARING RELATED SERVICE RESOURCES
Listed below are Wisconsin-based service resources that might assist you with unmet or recurring needs you might have in dealing with sensory-related disabilities. Some of these services are available at no cost and others are based on a fee-for-service budget system. Although every attempt has been made to keep information up-to-date, availability and fees may change at any time. Please be sure to inquire before moving forward with any service request.
Accommodation Information by Disability: A to Z This list of terms, from JAN, allows you to acquire information about certain disabilities and how to accommodate individuals who are experiencing difficulties on the job.
Hearing
The Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing provides a comprehensive directory of Wisconsin interpreters. Interpreters translate messages, including intonation and emphasis, into a form of sign such as ASL that would be best understood by the consumer(s).
Wisconsin Telecommunications Relay Service (WTRS) Telecommunications service to enable people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech disabled to communicate by TTY (text telephone) with anyone who uses a standard phone through a WTRS Communications by dialing 711.
Vision
Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired This government agency is designated to provide free assessment, training and information to adults with vision loss, their families, and professionals.
Badger Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired provides low vision consulting, and referral information.
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Braille Resources in Wisconsin
The Center for Deaf-Blind Persons provides information and referral for assistive technology resources and purchasing information
Braille Ready, Inc.
6913 Colony Drive
Madison, WI 53717
Phone: 608-833-2876
Volunteer Braillists, Inc.
517 N. Segoe Rd., Room #200
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-233-0222
(8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday only)
Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement, Inc.
803 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436
Phone: 414-286-3039
Email: info@ablenow.org
MOTOR / PHYSICAL RELATED SERVICE RESOURCES FOR WISCONSIN EMPLOYERS
Accommodation Information by Disability: A to Z This list of terms, from JAN, allows you to acquire information about certain disabilities and how to accommodate individuals who are experiencing difficulties on the job.
Back Injury
Vocational Rehabilitation Service Locations - this Division of Vocational Rehabilitation site will directly link you to local service provider in your area that has experience working with individuals with back impairments.
Fibromyalgia
Projects with Industry is an excellent employer's service provider and other community resources. UW-Stout is a partner.
Employees with Fibromyalgia Syndrome - information on accommodations from JAN
Cerebral Palsy
United Cerebral Palsy of West Central Wisconsin
206 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
Voice: 715-832-1782
Email: ucpwcw@aol.com
United Cerebral Palsy of Southeastern Wisconsin (UCPSEW)
7519 West Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53219
Telephone: 414-329-4500
TTY: 414-329-4511
Fax: 414-329-4510
Toll Free: 888-482-7739
e-mail: info@ucpsew.org
Cerebral Palsy of Mideast Wisconsin
36 Broad Street, Suite 120
P.O. Box 1241
Oshkosh, WI 54902-1241
Phone: (920) 424-4071; (800) 261-1895 (Toll Free in WI)
TTY: (920) 424-4071
E-mail: cpmideastwi@vbe.com
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Phone: (800) 242-3358
Email: info@wisms.org
Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute Services placement specialists have a vast knowledge of working with individuals with MS in a work place setting.
WI Department of Health Services Disability Resource Coordinator serves as the central contact person for services and policies for persons with physical disabilities
MEDICAL CONDITION SERVICE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO WISCONSIN EMPLOYERS
Accommodation Information by Disability: A to Z This list of terms, from JAN, allows you to acquire information about certain conditions and disabilities and how to accommodate individuals who are experiencing difficulties on the job.
Diabetes
Diabetes at Work seeks to assist businesses and managed care companies in assessing "the impact of diabetes in the workplace, and provide intuitive information to help employees manage their diabetes and take steps toward reducing risks for related complications"
Become a Health Ambassador of the American Diabetes Foundation
Asthma/Cardiovascular & Chronic Digestive Disorders/Epilepsy/Tuberculosis.
The American Lung Association of Wisconsin has a number of asthma educational resources for individuals seeking more information on the disease and its management.
Arthritis
HIV/AIDS
Labor analysts across the State of Wisconsin agree that by 2009 many employment sectors will experience a serious shortage of qualified workers. Retiring baby boomers, the brain drain, and declining birth rates will seriously erode the supply of workers to fill available positions. As a result, employers will be required to expand their pool of applicants by including older workers and workers with disabilities. This page contains a wide variety of resources to assist you, the employer, with gathering information to effectively hire, manage, and retain older or disabled workers.
LABOR MARKET STATISTICS
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Office of Economic Advisors The Office of Economic Advisors Webpage assists economic data users to better understand the relationships between labor markets and other economic and demographic specifics. The Office helps users interpret labor force data and focus on the issues and trends influencing employment growth in the State of Wisconsin. The office publishes monthly and annual reports that provide an overview of county and state trends. These include Workforce Observations, County Workforce Profiles, Workforce Development Area Profiles, and state and regional Employment Projections and are among the collections found in OEA
Americans with Disabilities: Ready for the Global Workforce is the official theme selected by U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao for National Disability Employment Awareness Month - 2006. The theme echoes President George W. Bush's New Freedom Initiative which has been in the lead, recognizing the need to promote greater job opportunities for workers with disabilities.
Notice Concerning The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act Of 2008
Link: http://www.eeoc.gov/ada/amendments_notice.html
On September 25, 2008, the President signed the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 ("ADA Amendments Act" or "Act"). The Act makes important changes to the definition of the term "disability" by rejecting the holdings in several Supreme Court decisions and portions of EEOC's ADA regulations. The Act retains the ADA's basic definition of "disability" as an impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record of such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment. However, it changes the way that these statutory terms should be interpreted in several ways. Most significantly, the Act:
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directs EEOC to revise that portion of its regulations defining the term "substantially limits";
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expands the definition of "major life activities" by including two non-exhaustive lists:
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the first list includes many activities that the EEOC has recognized (e.g., walking) as well as activities that EEOC has not specifically recognized (e.g., reading, bending, and communicating);
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the second list includes major bodily functions (e.g., "functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions");
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states that mitigating measures other than "ordinary eyeglasses or contact lenses" shall not be considered in assessing whether an individual has a disability;
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clarifies that an impairment that is episodic or in remission is a disability if it would substantially limit a major life activity when active;
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provides that an individual subjected to an action prohibited by the ADA (e.g., failure to hire) because of an actual or perceived impairment will meet the "regarded as" definition of disability, unless the impairment is transitory and minor;
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provides that individuals covered only under the "regarded as" prong are not entitled to reasonable accommodation; and
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emphasizes that the definition of "disability" should be interpreted broadly.
EEOC will be evaluating the impact of these changes on its enforcement guidances and other publications addressing the ADA.
Effective Date:
The ADA Amendments Act is effective as of January 1, 2009.
