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State Roles in Promoting Community Life Engagement: Themes from the State Employment Leadership Network’s Working Group
ThinkWork! Publications
  • Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski, University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, University of Massachusetts Boston
  • ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston, ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston
Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
2-4-2019
Keywords
  • Community Life Engagement,
  • CLE,
  • Employment First,
  • State Employment Leadership Network,
  • SELN,
  • #90DN0216,
  • ThinkWork
Abstract

As states focus on expanding integrated employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and phasing out sheltered work, they are finding a need to concurrently examine Community Life Engagement (CLE) supports as a wrap-around to ensure individuals’ engagement in the community is maintained and they continue to receive sufficient levels of support, despite fluctuations in job status and hours. In January through June of 2017, the State Employment Leadership Network (SELN) hosted a working group of member states to discuss ideas and share strategies for encouraging quality CLE supports while maintaining a focus on Employment First (see below for more on Employment First). The SELN is a membership-based network of state IDD agencies committed to making changes in their service systems to ensure access to competitive integrated employment for people with IDD (www.selnhub.org/home).

Community Engaged/Serving
No, this is not community-engaged.
Citation Information
Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons and ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. "State Roles in Promoting Community Life Engagement: Themes from the State Employment Leadership Network’s Working Group" (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jaimie-timmons/52/