Using Braided Funding Strategies to Advance Employer Hiring Initiatives that Include People with Disabilities

September 1, 2011

Identifies and describes key nationally recognized employer-responsive models that are operating across the nation.

Identifies and describes a few of the key nationally recognized employer-responsive models that are operating across the nation, outlines the various forms they may take, and describes and explains the various funding sources and braiding strategies they are using to make the models work. This report profiles four employer-responsive models that have gained increasing attention in an effort to help local policymakers and administrators better understand the relationship between these model programs for hiring people with disabilities and braided funding strategies.