Employment Partnerships Affinity Group

AFFINITY GROUP FACILITATOR

Jaclyn Camden

Assistant Director for Center on Transition Innovations and Director of ACE-IT in College;
Chair of Employment Partnerships Collaborative Workgroup
jlcamden2@vcu.edu

Danie Roberts-Dahm, PhD
Project Coordinator, Think College Inclusive Higher Education Network
danielle.dahm@umb.edu

Featured Resources

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Can Think College

Are We Leaving Money on the Table? How Partnership Plus May Boost the Fiscal Stability of Inclusive Higher Education Programs

Is Getting a Postsecondary Education a Good Investment for Supported Employees With Intellectual Disability and Taxpayers?

Addressing the Policy Tangle: Students with Intellectual Disability and the Path to Postsecondary Education, Employment and Community Living

Impact of Postsecondary Education on Employment Outcomes of Youth With Intellectual Disability Served by Vocational Rehabilitation

The Employment Partnerships Affinity Group is an open-access group for individuals who want to learn about successful systems-level employment partnership collaborations between institutions of higher education (IHEs), vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies, developmental disability (DD) agencies and employers that support students with intellectual disability to go to college.

Meetings will include facilitated discussion on opportunities and barriers to employment partnerships for students with ID as well as guest speakers/experts from the field. In addition, resources to raise awareness, highlight promising practice, and replicate successful partnership activities will be shared.

Meeting Schedule

Next Meetings

Zoom Registration

Aug 2nd, 2-3pm ET

Past Meetings

State Alliance Support for Employment Partnerships
Julie Lackey, Director of Oklahoma IPSE Alliance, presented on Oklahoma's employment partnerships and how she helped facilitate those partnerships with their IPSE programs.

Relationships with Vocational Rehabilitation
Date: February 15, 2023
Summary: In this meeting, the group facilitator Jaclyn Camden and her VCU colleague Hannah Ramsey, presented on ACE-IT in College’s Relationship with Vocational Rehabilitation (VR). Attendees also discussed challenges with VR collaboration specific to their programs and examples/resources to build positive VR partnerships.

Kick-off Meeting
Date: November 29, 2022
Summary: This meeting focused on providing an overview of the new Employment Partnerships Affinity group, Think College Network, and the Employment Partnerships National Workgroup. Attendees discussed what they hope to get out of the group and topics to focus on for the following meetings.