Institute on Community Integration

Brian wanted a community job. Plain and simple. He wanted to feel like he had control over his own life. “I met Brian when he had expressed interest in finding community employment,” Amber Kram writes in Frontline Initiative (jointly published by ICI and the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals - NADSP). “That is when I learned he had been told he was deemed ‘unemployable,’ yet he still wanted to look for a job.”

Thirtieth Anniversary Issue on Progress and Priorities in Direct Support | Volume 22, Number 1 | From Exclusion to Inclusion, The 31-year Journey to Competitive Employment Thirtieth Anniversary Issue on Progress and Priorities in Direct Support From Exclusion to Inclusion, The 31-year Journey to Competitive EmploymentAuthorAmber Kram is a Credentialed Employment Support Professional (CESP) at PHASE-Industries Incorporated in Mora, Minnesota. Amber can be reached at ak...

On June 22, join ICI’s Minnesota Transformation Initiative’s quarterly virtual training on how Minnesota providers support Community Life Engagement in Action—a project that shares research, resources, and promising practices that support community inclusion and partnership for people with disabilities. Project partners (the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability, the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston, and ANCOR American Network of Community Options and Resources) will provide an overview of the CLE toolkit and the components of CLE in Action. This event was rescheduled from last month. Register at https://z.umn.edu/bagm