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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
SETC Meeting
Overview of a Partnership:
The DDS andThe NJCC Foundation
February 19, 2008
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
NJCC Foundation
• Established in 1996• Mission:
Build a highly qualified workforce through innovative collaborations with K-12 education and the workforce training and preparation system
• Three areas of interest: K - 12 education Nurse (nurse faculty) shortage People with disabilities
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
NJBLN
• Business Leadership Network Established in 2006 with funding
from Kessler Foundation Sanctioned affiliate of USBLN Employer-led
• Mission: Address the business imperative
of including people with disabilities in the workforce
Promote positive employment outcomes for people with disabilities
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Inaugural Decisions
• Established leadership committee
• Differ from other BLNs across country (50+) by focusing on programs, not membership
• Also differ by focusing on skills of candidates rather than employer interest in hiring
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Original Scope of Work• Provided public relations
support for Disability Mentoring Day(significant increase in business participation)
• Established online job board:www.AccessibleEmployment.org
• Career webinars for students in middle and high school featuring people with disabilities
• SKILLSFirst Conference
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Current Scope of Work• Provides foundation for
partnership with DDS
Promote Disability Supplier Diversity Program
Promote Disabilities At Work
Increase skill levels of people with disabilities
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
DSDP
• Promote Disability Supplier Diversity Program (DSDP) Program of USBLN
Process leading to national credential certifying that a business is ‘disabled-owned’
Enables corporate strategy of diversifying supplier chain
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
NJBLN Role in DSDP
• Recruit disabled-owned businesses into process
Status: 2 businesses completed application and awaiting site visits; 3 others in hopper
• Recruit and train volunteers for mandatory site visits to applicant businesses
• Help successful applicants be ‘ready for prime time’
• Promote use of credential among businesses in state
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Disabilities At Work
• Effort to identify and reward businesses that go ‘beyond compliance’ in hiring practice and/or support people with disabilities in other ways
• Encourage consumers to patronize businesses that have earned the right to display the DAW logo on wall plaques, windows, websites
People with disabilities control over 200 million dollars in disposable income
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
www.njbln.org
Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
DAW Radio
• VoiceAmerica Business Channel – Live Internet Talk Radio
• Live on April 14, 2010 Promote the DAW mission –
feature business that support people with disabilities
Include areas of broad interest to people with disabilities, their families, their employers.
Show sponsorships available
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Third Component
• Least defined• Focus on skill levels
Glaring incongruity between available jobs and skill levels most pronounced among people with disabilities
• Exacerbated by lack of understanding of demands of workplace
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Build Understanding• High School teacher who
tells her special needs students that they don’t have to work as hard as other students and will never have to worry about getting a job because companies want to hire people with disabilities
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Build Understanding• Service provider who
announced that she tells her clients to lie on their resumes(number two reason for termination)
• Statements from multiple human resource individuals saying that people with disabilities come to interviews under-prepared and under-dressed
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Welcome
Speaker:Dana Egreczky
Vice President
Workforce DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
President
Chamber of CommerceFoundation
Build Understanding• Employer stated that she hired
13 people with disabilities but wound up with 39 service providers on site every week who took all parking spaces
• Chamber survey that indicated that 94 of 100 business people did not know where to start in the system to find qualified people with disabilities(six cited Department of Veteran Affairs)
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