Disabled Veterans Webinar

Yesterday, Patrick and Lauren attended the Serving Disabled Veteran in the One-Stop Career Center System webinar presented by Gordon Graff, Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Lead for the Idaho Department of Labor, along with DPNs throughout Idaho.

Did you know there are 475 DPN's in the United States? This image comes from the national DPN Initiative web page:

This may not be a surprise to many of the One Stop Centers in San Francisco, however, Idaho One Stops experienced an increase of veterans utilizing their services by 57%. Some of the program referrals and resources that were mentioned in the webinar include:

• Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
• Employment Services
• Unemployment Insurance
• Transition Assistance Program (TAP)
• Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP)
• Supplementary Security Income (SSI)
  
• Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
  
• Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA)

For those of us that want to be more familiar with disability accommodations in the workplace but don't have the time, there was a great training resource mentioned at both the DPN Quarterly Meeting and the webinar. The best part is... it only takes 30 seconds to complete! Julia Sherry and Gary Hannah created 30-Second DPN training. The sixteen-part series of trainings includes topics such as vision loss, speech disability, WIA Section 188 Disability Checklist, and MORE!