{"id":1285,"date":"2021-10-04T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2021-10-04T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:46:32","slug":"how-state-councils-on-developmental-disabilities-councils-can-invest-effectively-in-employment-systems-change-and-provider-transformation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/how-state-councils-on-developmental-disabilities-councils-can-invest-effectively-in-employment-systems-change-and-provider-transformation-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"How State Councils on Developmental Disabilities (Councils) can Invest Effectively in Employment Systems Change and Provider Transformation Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a historical perspective, Developmental Disability (DD) Councils and provider organizations\u00a0 have often operated on parallel tracks that rarely intersected. State Councils were established as\u00a0 early as 1970, when states were required to establish State Planning and Advisory Councils and were further defined in the Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, at which time\u00a0 councils became independent in their work and committed to community-based living. Provider\u00a0 organizations, many of which were founded by parents seeking a safe and supportive environment\u00a0 for their adult family members with disabilities, often operated in facility-based settings which\u00a0 focused on providing supportive social and pre-vocational services to people with disabilities.\u00a0 These historical and philosophical differences created an \u201cus\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d environment in many\u00a0 states, whereby many councils did not see any alignment with providers who historically operated\u00a0 in facility-based settings and paid sub-minimum wages to workers with disabilities. With the\u00a0 movement towards <em>Employment First<\/em>, and the implementation of the Workforce Innovation and \u00a0Opportunity Act (WIOA) and federal Home and Community Based Settings (HCBS) regulation, the potential for Councils to collaborate with providers in a variety of ways by finding alignment in\u00a0 the mutual goal of improving community access and inclusion and identifying the intersections in\u00a0 how they could support systems-change efforts has become apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DETAC-2021-Council-3_Final_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Document<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a historical perspective, Developmental Disability (DD) Councils and provider organizations\u00a0 have often operated on parallel tracks that rarely intersected. State Councils were established as\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,139,127],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoddisabilityemploymenttacenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}