Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center Podcast

We talk with DETAC strategic advisor, Dan Middleton, from the Catalight Research Foundation, about supporting job seekers and employers with disabilities in their career journeys, and how individuals can play an active role in their own career advancement.

We talk with Samantha Marino, a certified rehabilitation counselor, former Center for Independent Living staff member and an independent consultant on benefits management about some of the myths about employment and loss of benefits. She explains ways people can explore employment on a trial basis without endangering their benefits and programs that can preserve benefits when a person develops add...

We talk to DETAC's self-advocate advisor Nicole Leblanc, about her personal perspective on person-centered thinking and best practices for engaging people with disabilities through a person-centered process, particularly related to employment.

About This Episode Sue Babin founded and runs a self-employment business incubator called “Self Employment: the Spirit of Individual Enterprise” in the state of Rhode Island. In this two-part interview, she goes over all aspects of the program: how the idea came to her, how she started the program, how she secured funding and transformed a pilot into a permanent program, how she produc...

About This Episode Sue Babin founded and runs a self-employment business incubator called “Self Employment: the Spirit of Individual Enterprise” in the state of Rhode Island. In this two-part interview, she goes over all aspects of the program: how the idea came to her, how she started the program, how she secured funding and transformed a pilot into a permanent program, how she produc...

Sierra Royster, the Director of Innovation with the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living (APRIL) , talks with Michael Beers, the Youth Transition Coordinator at Summit Independent Living in Missoula, Montana. Michael is also a standup comedian and runs improv workshops. They discuss a variety of issues in employment, including creativity in employment support, the Centers for Indep...

In The New Normal , we talk with Nicole LeBlanc, DETAC’s Self-Advocate Advisor, about the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for people with disabilities – mostly detrimental in terms of increased risk and unemployment, but also some changes that have benefitted people with disabilities such as remote work and telehealth. Presenters Nicole LeBlanc is the Self Advocate Advisor with DETAC. Nicole...

In this episode, we talk with Angela Greene. After 21 years in a sheltered workshop, she left in favor of competitive integrated employment as a Dining Room Attendant at the University of South Carolina. She is also a founding member and secretary of I.M.P.A.C.T. South Carolina . This podcast is a continuation of Angela’s presentation during the DETAC webinar, Employment First 2.0: Developing a Fo...

About This Episode Following last month’s webinar, “Celebrating Olmstead: It’s Time for 14(c) Phase-Out: Lessons Learned from Advancing Legislation & Leaving the Shop”, we go deeper with one of the webinar presenters, Sunny Cefaratti, about her early post-high school experience of going to work in a sheltered workshop, how she asserted her desire to leave the sheltered...