Achieving Equal Access and Opportunity: Requirements and Promising Practices

Don’t miss this webinar on promoting Equal Opportunity and complying with the requirements of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act’s (WIOA’s) Section 188. Achieving Equal Access and Opportunity is an evolving process. Challenges arise. Strategies change. Join the U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center (CRC) and Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the LEAD Center and leaders from state workforce system on February 27, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. (EST) for a webinar to release an updated online Promising Practices in Achieving Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity: A Section 188 Disability Reference Guide. The updated and expanded Guide provides state and regional workforce systems and partners with a quick and easy way to identify successful strategies and new promising practices that promote equal opportunity for youth and adults with disabilities.

This webinar will review this new valuable resource for state and regional Workforce systems and partners, and offer attendees the opportunity to learn about the successful implementation of these strategies and practices firsthand. Workforce system representatives from three states – Iowa, Minnesota, and New York – will detail their use of the Guide and perspectives on how the Guide helps them prioritize and inform their service delivery and training. Attendees will hear about the specific strategies that have been most impactful in these states, and can ask questions about what they can do in their own systems.