Additional Research

    • An Introduction to the State Peer Leaders Network Presentation Transcript

      Jun 01, 2008

      This webinar took place in June 2008 and featured presentations by Nanette Relave, Center for Workers with Disabilities, APHSA and Damon Terzaghi, Center for Workers with Disabilities, APHSA. Kathy Krepcio, Executive Director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development was the moderator.

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    • Assessment: What It Is…What It’s Not…and Why to Use It Presentation Transcript

      Feb 01, 2012

      This webinar took place in February 2012 and featured a presentation by Lisa Stern of Stern Consulting LLC.

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    • Asset Development: State Strategies for Making Work Pay for People with Disabilities Presentation Transcript

      Oct 01, 2009

      This webinar took place in October 2009 and featured presentations by Candace Baldwin, Senior Policy Advisor, NCB Capital Impact; Rich Sanders, Program Coordinator, Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, Alaska; and Tammie Amsbaugh, Policy Coordinator for the Iowa Department of Human Services’ Medicaid Infrastructure Grant, University of Iowa, Center for Disabilities and Development. Nanette Relave, Director, Center for Workers with Disabilities was the moderator.

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    • Barack Obama: Race, Diversity, and America’s Global Competitiveness

      Jun 08, 2010

      Examines the opportunity and promise that President Obama must address as he provides a new form of leadership and charts a new, more worldview American administration; one that he has announced to be more collaborative and inclusive. Provides an introspection into America’s continuing difficulty at resolving the issue of race relations, and the limiting impact that it is having on America fulfilling the opportunity for unleashing the country’s full capacity for creativity and innovation.

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    • Barack Obama: The Economy, Race, and the American Presidency 2012

      Oct 22, 2012

      This paper is a reflection on the nation’s economic problems in 2012 and the racial tensions that persist in the age of an African American president. This article was published by the Competition Forum journal.

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    • Blending and Braiding Resources to Support the Employment of People with Disabilities Presentation Transcript

      Jan 08, 2013

      This webinar took place in August 2008 and featured presentations by Robert B. Nicholas, Ph.D., Senior Visiting Fellow for Disability Research, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development; Jack Quigley, Medicaid Infrastructure Grant Project Manager, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services; and Dr. Joseph Ashley, Assistant Commissioner, Grants & Special Programs, Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services. It was moderated by Nanette Relave, Director, State Peer Leaders Network, NTAR Leadership Center, Director, Center for Workers with Disabilities.

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    • Career Profiles: Classroom Application Document

      Jan 25, 2010

      Provides teachers guidance on presenting Career Connections video profiles and stimulating student discussions following the videos.

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    • Closing the Skills Gap


      Jan 05, 2004

      Provides an article published in NJ BIZ highlighting the Ready for the Job initiative, which profiles the skill needs in key New Jersey industries and occupations in order to create a common language to enable employers, students, counselors, parents, and educators to understand where the state economy is headed and what it will take for workers to succeed.

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    • Community College Strategies to Serve Adults in Transition: Dislocated Workers, Older Job Seekers, and Job Seekers with Disabilities Presentation Transcript

      Nov 01, 2012

      This webinar took place in November 2012 and featured presentations by Dr. Michelle Van Noy, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development; Maria Heidkamp, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development; and Dr. James Shanahan of Shanahan Resources Inc.

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    • Customized Employment in an Economic Downturn: Leveraging Opportunities for Employers and Job Seekers Presentation Transcript

      Mar 01, 2009

      This webinar took place in March 2009 and featured a presentation by Michael Callahan, President, Marc Gold & Associates and was moderated by Nanette Relave, Director, State Peer Leaders Network, NTAR Leadership Center and Director, Center for Workers with Disabilities, APHSA.

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