The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA, 2014) outlined practices to be utilized by Vocational Rehabilitation and other service providers to increase integrated competitive employment. Now many personal examples of this increased employment have been shared through social media, websites, and agencies. This presentation will discuss themes and other data gathered through analysis of publicly available successful employment stories. The goal will be a summary of information and data about best practices in supported and customized employment provided through personal stories.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Participants will learn about the broad opportunities for supported and customized employment throughout the nations via the personal stories analyzed for the presentation.

• Best practices will be shared that are gathered via the analysis of personal stories.

• Information about the diversity of the individuals, the diversity of geographical areas, and an increased amount of stories will be shared.

Presented by TASH50.

Free registration.