Toolboxes

TOOLBOX FOR
Frontline Staff

Diversity Partners offers a series of online training modules for frontline staff. This "toolbox" of information and resources prepares frontline staff to successfully engage with businesses, and support people with disabilities who want to work in their communities.

Who should use this toolbox?

Job developers, employment specialists, workforce development staff and others in both the public and private sector who connect people with disabilities to jobs are the "bridge" between labor supply and demand.

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Module 1: Leading with Strengths
Module 2: Skills, Culture & Needs
Module 3: Raising Expectations
Module 4: Strengths-based Assessment

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Module 1: Changing Expectations
Module 2: The Importance of Social Capital
Module 3: Approaching the Topic of Disclosure
Module 4: Requesting & Negotiating Accommodations
Module 5: Jobseeker Engagement
Module 6: Apprenticeship and Training for People with Disabilities

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Module 1: Who are People with Disabilities
Module 2: Disability Language & Etiquette
Module 3: What You Need to Know About Disability Rights 

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Module 1: Assessing Employer Needs
Module 2: Perception is Reality: Building Your Professional Identity
Module 3: Understanding and Using Policy Initiatives: Impact on Practice
Module 4: Industry and Sector Expertise

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Module 1: Enhancing Your Value to Employers
Module 2: Partnerships and Business-Led Coalitions

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Module 1: Dealing with Rapid Change
Module 2: Breaking Down Silos

TOOLBOX FOR
Leadership

The Diversity Partners Leadership Toolbox contains resources, tools, and planning guides to create a climate that emphasizes effective business engagement strategies among frontline personnel, while encouraging strategic planning related to changing policies and workforce dynamics that impact the demand for qualified candidates with disabilities.

Who should use this toolbox?

Leaders in organizations that provide employment services, such as: disability service agencies, workforce development organizations, and private staffing firms.