The Connecting Point 21
Volume 1 Issue   21     Date:   February 5, 2004

In This ISSUE:    

1) Long-Term Care: The Ticking Bomb
2) All in One Stop? The Accessibility of Work Support Programs at One-Stop Centers
3) Report from the National Longitudinal Transition Study: Youth Employment
4) Exceptional Parent Magazine - Resource Guide

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1) Long-Term Care: The Ticking Bomb
Diagnosis: Long-term care threatens to bankrupt Medicaid and the states that pay for it. The best hope for a cure lies in cutting down on the need for institutional care. Article at http://www.governing.com/gpp/2004/long.htm

2) All in One Stop? The Accessibility of Work Support Programs at One-Stop Centers
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) [Taken from the Introduction]   Under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, all local workforce areas in the U.S. (there are currently over 600) are required to develop a "one-stop" delivery system that makes an array of federally funded employment programs available at one location. The one-stop system is designed to make the workforce development system more user-friendly for both job seekers and employers, and, over time, to serve people looking for help finding an initial job, a better job, and/or accessing services to improve their skills. The system is also designed to serve employers seeking qualified workers or funding to train prospective or incumbent workers. http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1 063733515.9/one-stop_rpt.pdf
The purpose of this paper was to conduct an initial investigation into the role one-stop centers currently play in providing job seekers with access to public work support programs.   Work support programs are designed to help workers find a job, accept a job, and/or keep a job, by helping families make ends meet when earnings are not, or will not, be enough.
To learn about the current state of access to work supports at one-stop centers nationwide, we surveyed 33 one-stop center directors from across the country. Although one-stop directors do not typically set workforce development policies in their regions (local Workforce Investment Boards [WIBs] are designed to do this instead), directors are responsible for implementing policies. Given their location "on the ground," they are also able to provide feedback to WIBs about policies that should be adopted or modified.

3) Report from the National Longitudinal Transition Study: Youth Employment December 2003 -- Vol. 2, Issue 2 http://www.ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp
Youth employment is the norm in American society. Approximately 80% of youth report holding jobs during their high school years (National Research Council, 1998). Entry into the labor market often begins early, with about half of youth ages 12 and 13 reporting that they work (Rothstein & Herz, 2000). Although statistics are gathered regularly about youth employment in the general population, comparatively little was known about employment patterns of youth with disabilities until the National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS) 2004 Edition of the Annual Resource Guide collected data from 1987 to 1990. The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) began updating and expanding data on youth with disabilities in 2001, including information on employment. Information reported here comes from telephone interviews and a mail survey conducted in 2001 with parents and guardians of youth with disabilities, and from comparisons made with 1987 NLTS employment data. Findings from NLTS2 are generalizable to youth with disabilities nationally who were 13 to 16 years old in December of 2000, and to each of 12 federal disability categories and to each age group (e.g., all 13-year-old students with disabilities, all 14-year-old students with disabilities, etc.). According to parents' reports, almost 60% of youth with disabilities are employed during a 1-year period--some at work-study jobs, but the vast majority at non-school-related jobs.

4) Exceptional Parent Magazine - Resource Guide
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