David Mank on the Six Keys to Success in Competitive Integrated Employment

YES To Employment

Season 3, Episode 1 — 4 February 2019

About this episode

David Mank discusses the six keys to success in in facilitating Competitive Integrated Employment for people with disabilities.

About the presenters

David Michael Mank, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He is formerly the Director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University, Indiana’s University Center for Excellence on Disabilities.

As a writer and researcher, Dr. Mank has an extensive background in the education and employment for persons with disabilities. He has authored or coauthored dozens of articles and book chapters. His interests also include transition from school to work and community living.

Dr. Mank is a member of the editorial boards of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (TASH), the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Journal of Disability Policy Studies. He is Associate Editor for the journal, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

In January 2015, Dr. Mank was appointed by the U. S. Secretary of Labor to the Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities, which was created in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. He was subsequently elected Chair of the Committee, which delivered its Final Report and Recommendations to the Secretary of Labor and Congress in September 2016.

Dale Verstegen is a Senior Research Associate at TranScen and one of the State Liaison for the YES! Center.

Transcript

Announcer: You’re listening to YES! To Employment, a podcast series that seeks to improve competitive, integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

At the 2018 APSE conference, the YES Center’s Dale Verstegen caught up with David Mank. David Mank is a Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, where he served as the Director of the University Center for Excellence on Disabilities. In 2015 he was appointed by the U. S. Secretary of Labor to the Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities, which advised the Department on the implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. They discuss Professor Mank’s six keys to success in competitive integrated employment.

Complete transcript forthcoming

Announcer: You’ve been listening to YES! To Employment, a podcast that seeks to improve competitive, integrated employment outcomes for transition-aged youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Today we spoke with David Mank about six keys to success in competitive integrated employment. You can find links to a longer interview with him by the Indiana Disability History Project and the full report of the Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities at the show notes page.

For more about YES! To Employment, including show notes, links to the resources discussed, a complete transcript and a schedule of episodes, visit www.yestoemployment.org/podcast. You can subscribe through iTunes or your favorite Android podcast app to have the series delivered automatically to your device so you never miss an episode. If you enjoyed today’s episode, please give us a rating on iTunes. Ratings will help us get the series in front of more listeners.

YES! To Employment is a production of the Youth Employment Solutions Center, the national Training and Technical Assistance Center that serves as a hub of information and expertise for the Partnerships in Employment (PIE) state projects. The YES! Center is a collaboration of TASH and TransCen. You can learn more about TASH at tash.org and more about TranCen at transcen.org. You can receive updates from the YES! Center on this podcast and our other activities by following us on Facebook or on twitter at @YEStoEmployment.

Partnerships in Employment is a series of seed grants funded by the Administration for Community Living’s Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, made to states for the purpose of transforming state disability support systems to competitive, integrated employment. AIDD is dedicated to ensuring that individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families are able to fully participate in, and contribute to all aspects of community life in the United States and its territories.

Music for YES! To Employment is an original composition and performance by Sunny Cefaratti, the Co-Director and Autistic Self Advocacy Mentor at the Musical Autist. You can learn more about the Musical Autist at www.themusicalautist.org.

Be sure to keep YES! To Employment on your list: we’ll have another episode on competitive integrated employment for you in the near future.

Musical postlude

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This interview was originally recorded.

The audio of this interview and the transcript have been lightly edited for clarity.

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