Strategic Partnerships

Strategic Partnerships include collaboration with community businesses, families, board members, and other stakeholders. This section offers information about partnering across agencies and with businesses, including information about developing internships and apprenticeships. In addition, visit the resources offered under the MEP section of this tab for more information about partnering with community-based manufacturing businesses.

Webinars

• ​Changing Business Models
  ​When organizations change the way they do business, they must consider the impact of fixed costs on their fiscal viability. In this presentation, Laurie Kelley and Allan Blum of Loeb & Troper LLC discuss potential challenges and pitfalls of changing business models and offer resources and solutions.
• Keeping Board Members On Board
  The support of the Board is key to meeting transformation goals. Laurie Kelley and Allan Blum of Loeb and Troper LLC bring their expertise and years of experience to this discussion of keeping Board Members informed about and engaged in the organization's transformation process.
• Identifying Corporate Structural Changes for Business Model Design
  Laurie Kelley and Allan Blum of Loeb and Troper offer insights into the corporate structural changes required to transform Work Centers into sustainable stand-alone businesses.

• Person-Centered Planning and Shared Decision Making
  ​Person-Centered Planning and Shared Decision Making are essential tools in an agency's journey of cultural change. Ability Beyond discusses how they successfully transformed employment supports by supporting individuals to make informed choices around personal, social, and career goals, manage concerns and fears around change, and implement concrete ways to maintain existing friendships while welcoming new relationships and employment roles. 
• Techniques for Involving All Stakeholders in Transformation
  Organization and Work Center transformation goals are met effectively when all levels of the organization are engaged in the process. Techniques for Involving All Levels of Stakeholders in Transformation explores ways to encourage all stakeholders to learn about and participate in the transformation process.

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Additional Resources

• Disability Employment Initiative (DEI) 
  This initiative is designed to help expand the capacity of American Job Centers (AJCs) to improve employment outcomes of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) help expand the individuals with disabilities. It represents a partnership between/collaboration with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to increase and improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.


• DEI Fact Sheet
  This document provides background information on the Disability Employment Initiative in a concise format.

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• UPS Transitional Learning Center
  Learn more about successful strategic partnering in this article about the collaboration between UPS at its Worldport, its main air sorting center in Kentucky and the Coalition for Workforce Diversity.

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• Apprenticeships
  An approach to job development and skills training that has been used in European nations for decades, apprenticeships are being considered in the United States as viable options for people to learn the skills they need to be successful in the job market. These resources from the US Department of Labor (DOL) provide important information about Apprenticeships. 
  

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women_fact_sheet-2.pdf
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faqs.pdf
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employers_fact_sheet.pdf
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eeo_rule_overview_fact_sheet.pdf
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