Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
2009
Keywords
Funding & Service Contracting, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, I/DD, Developmental Disabilities, Employment, Access to Integrated Employment, ThinkWork
Disciplines
Organization Development | Rehabilitation and Therapy | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Work | Sociology | Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
Abstract
Contracts with Industry, implemented in the 1990s as the Natural Supports Initiative, is a program option that allows the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD) to contract directly with businesses to provide job coaching supports that become a part of the natural workplace. Individuals participating in this program are employed by a business and are paid minimum wage or better. The name change to Contracts with Industry was an effort to distinguish the program from other DDSD employment options that involve employment service providers and paid job coaches.
Recommended Citation
Cox, Monica and ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston, "State Agency Promising Practice: Oklahoma - Contracting with Industry for the Provision of Job Coaching Supports" (2009). ThinkWork! Publications. 71.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/thinkwork/71
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