{"id":98,"date":"2020-08-26T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-11-13T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:11:07","slug":"ada30-seed-learning-lab-beyond-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/2020\/08\/26\/ada30-seed-learning-lab-beyond-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"#ADA30 SEED Learning Lab: Beyond Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>This article recaps a recent installment of a webinar series celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=liOMVWvBHx4&amp;feature=emb_title\">To view the program, please click here. <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Mary Elizabeth Robertson, The Council of State Governments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council of State Governments (CSG) continued its celebration of 30 years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with its second installment of the State Exchange on Employment and Disability Learning Lab. The workshop entitled, \u201cStates as a Model Employer,\u201d featured Nadia Mossburg, senior policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment, moderating a discussion between Maryland Secretary of Disabilities Carol Beatty, Pennsylvania state Rep. Dan Miller and Minnesota Minority Whip Sen. John Hoffman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation centered around the progress states make in providing disability services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat works in one state might also work in another,\u201d Mossburg said. \u201cThat\u2019s the thinking behind the State Exchange on Employment and Disability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inclusion in the workforce is still an area where more work needs to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe disability community represents a very broad range of individuals,\u201d Beatty said, pointing to tools her agency is working toward to help connect students headed into the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Pennsylvania, plans are in motion to integrate disabled workers into the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSEED and CSG are fantastic partners,\u201d Miller said. \u201cHow can you get people into these opportunities to get them to succeed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller listed several opportunities in Pennsylvania for the disabled community to find gainful employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn everything the state does, that the lives and opportunities of their citizens with disabilities are included in the planning and execution from top to bottom,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoffman\u2019s state of Minnesota is an Employment First state, a feat accomplished by bipartisanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCollaboration mattered,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cMinnesota did that in 2014. Governor Dayton initiated an executive order calling upon state agencies to hire people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, Gov. Walz re-established that executive order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can get beyond the politics in life and make sure we are doing the right thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article recaps a recent installment of a webinar series celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). To view the program, please click here. By Mary Elizabeth Robertson, The Council of State Governments The Council of State Governments (CSG) continued its celebration of 30 years since the passage of the Americans&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/2020\/08\/26\/ada30-seed-learning-lab-beyond-politics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ADA30 SEED Learning Lab: Beyond Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,39,38,57,56],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","tag-ada","tag-ada30","tag-americans-with-disabilities-act","tag-seed","tag-state-as-a-model-employer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.csg.org\/tcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}