Meaningful Day Idea Book: Second Edition
The Meaningful Day Idea Book is divided into selections that break down the concepts within the Meaningful Day definition. Each selection contains several Idea Papers that provide information and stories about Meaningful Day concepts.

Table of Chapters

Introduction
Supporting Individualized Access
Deep Connection with Ordinary Community Life
Wellness and Optimal Health
Self Empowerment, Relationships, and Respect
Champions Assure Progress is Linked to the ISP
Making Employment First a Reality in New Mexico: Resources

• Making Employment First a Reality in NM Webinar presented by DDSD's Judith Stevens for the National Alliance For Full Participation - 6/18/2010
• Making Employment First a Reality in NM Text of the Webinar - NOTE: Download times may vary - 6/18/2010
• Announcing New Mexico's Employment Training Project
• Employment Success Stories - DDSD Statewide Directors Meeting Award Winners
  
• Other Employment Success Stories
  
• Job Placement
• Introducing Employment Services and Benefits
  
• Ticket to Work
  
• New Mexico and National Employment Reports and Data

ICI 2008 National Report Note: Download document to the computer's desktop before opening

MN Employment-First-Report

Natl Core Indicators Employment Report 5-08

SELN_StateData_New_Mexico_Webinar

State Employment Practices Funding for Employment 2008

New Mexico Department of Health, Indicator Based Information System for Public Health (NM-IBIS) Employment Reports:

- Indicator Report Unemployment in New Mexico by Monthly Data

- Indicator Report Unemployment in New Mexico and U.S., 2000 - 2008 Data

- Indicator Report Unemployment in New Mexico by County Data

" Employment First" White Paper By Advancing Employment. Connecting People. (APSE).  APSE, the national network on employment, has released a white paper on "Employment First." This refers to state policy or principles that make employment in integrated, community-based businesses as the priority for state funding for people with disabilities.  A number of states have or are working toward such policies.

Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) to see fact sheets from employers, video clips, summits, employment data and much more at www.dol.gov/ODEP

2009 Federal Poverty Guidelines

Job Accommodation Network

New Mexico Benefits Training

The Center for Workers with Disabilities
Find reports, resources and event information at Disability Info.Gov

Work as a Priority: A Resource for Employing People who have Serious Mental Illnesses and are Homeless at http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/
Learn how New Mexicans with disabilities income solely receiving benefits compares with when they work... click here.

• Building Assets
• The State of California promotes supported employment see: www.firstlady.ca.gov/projects/needs
• New Mexico Governor Richardson’s proclamation that October 2009 be >Disability Employment Awareness Month
• Shifting Resources Away from Sheltered Workshops in Vermont
  By: Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski [Originally published: 1/2007]. http://www.communityinclusion.org/article.php?article_id=200
  Other resources on ICI Institute for Community Inclusion: http://www.communityinclusion.org/
  

And Yet More

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