State Agency Promising Practice: Oklahoma - Contracting with Industry for the Provision of Job Coaching Supports

Authors

Monica Cox, University of Massachusetts BostonFollow
ThinkWork! at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston

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