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NISH-Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Severe Disabilities

NISH is a national nonprofit agency whose mission is to create employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities by securing federal contracts through the AbilityOne Program for its network of community-based, nonprofit agencies. More than 600 participating nonprofit organizations employ these individuals and provide quality goods and services to the federal Government at a fair market price.

AbilityOne Program Speakers Bureau

The AbilityOne Program has launched the AbilityOne Program Speakers Bureau. The speakers are people with disabilities who work in the AbilityOne Program. They are available to speak to groups and organizations about the importance of AbilityOne in their lives and the benefits the program provides to the organizations that hire people with disabilities. To learn more, please visit any of the links below.

AbilityOne Program Speakers Bureau

To see speeches from AbilityOne speakers, Click Here

To see the media's coverage of AbilityOne speakers, Click Here

To request a DVD, please contact Meredith Hall at mhall@nish.org

To request a speaker come to an event, please contact Sarah Gray at sgray@nish.org

Employment Resources for People with Significant Disabilities

The following links will help guide people with significant disabilities to nonprofit agencies that may have employment opportunties and state vocational rehabilitation agencies that provide resources for people with significant disabilities seeking to enter the labor market.

Job Opportunities for People with Significant Disabilities through NPAs

NPA Locator - Find a nonprofit agency in your community that provides employment opportunities through the AbilityOne Program

One-Stop Resource Guide on Disability Information

Job Accomodation Network

Job Accomodation Network's Searchable Online Accomodation Resource (SOAR)

America's Job Bank

America's Job Bank for State Specific Resources

Ability Jobs, ADA - Affirmative Disability Action

The Ticket to Work and Self Sufficiency Program

To locate your office of vocational rehabilitation where you can access additional employment supports, please click on this link http://www.yourtickettowork.com/vrdist and select your state.

Customized Employment

Customized Employment (CE) includes resource ownership and small business development for people with disabilities. NISH and AbilityOne Community Rehabilitation Programs partner with local One Stop Centers, banks, and other community resources in customizing economic empowerment options for AbilityOne workers. These options are ideal for workers whose AbilityOne pay exceeds average community wages or for those who are looking for additional opportunities to participate and contribute in their communities.

Training and Technical Assistance for Providers

Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

Marc Gold & Associates

Cobra Assistance Through the ARRA (Economic Stimulus Package)

COBRA Premium Subsidies Notice Requirements and Action Plan

COBRA Premiums Subsidized Under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Social Security Administration - Work Incentives for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Programs

For information on the Social Security Administration's Disability Programs, benefits and eligibility, click on this link

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/

Work Incentive Planning & Assistance Projects or WIPAs provide information and planning services about work and work incentives to Social Security and SSI disability beneficiaries. WIPA services are available in every State and Territory.

WIPA resources are available to all Social Security and SSI disability beneficiaries age 14 and over are eligible for WIPA services and beneficiaries do not have to be working, or even have decided to work, to get WIPA services.

WIPAs can answer beneficiaries questions about how part-time, full-time, or seasonal work would affect their individual disability benefits and other benefits that they may receive from Federal, State, and local programs. To contact a WIPA in your state visit the Social Security link here:

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/oesp/providers.nsf/bystate

Work Incentives: Special rules make it possible for people with disabilities receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid. Social Security calls these rules "work incentives." Below are the rules that apply under each program.

SSDI & SSI Work Incentives

SSDI Work Incentives

SSI Work Incentives

Additional Resources for People with Severe Disabilities

Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

National Industries for the Blind (NIB)

The AbilityOne Program

Other Related Sites

Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy

The Institute for Economic Empowerment

AbilityOne Program Speakers Bureau

Government Affairs

The Government Affairs department strives to create and maintain the job opportunities of individuals with significant disabilities, conducts leadership in support of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act, and increases awareness and understanding of, and preference for the AbilityOne Program. This is accomplished primarily through the identification, monitoring and influencing of legislative and regulatory initiatives related to both procurement and disability policy. NISH is pleased to share with you a link to CapWiz, an online advocacy system that allows you to deliver messages directly to state and federal elected officials and media contacts.
CapWiz

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