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Expanding Opportunities for Workers with Disabilities

People with Disabilities Receiving Services From Maine One-Stop Career Centers⁵

In 2009, among the customers served by the Adult and Dislocated Workers programs (funded through the federal Workforce Investment Act), the CareerCenters reported 66 customers with disabilities who exited. Of the 66 people who exited, 72 percent entered employment.

More than 3,900 adults with disabilities received employment services at the CareerCenters with funding provided by the Wagner-Peyser Act. From 2002 through 2009, the number of adults with disabilities receiving Wagner-Peyser services increased by an average of 246 customers each year.

As of January 2011, there were 1,399 registered job seekers with disabilities on the Maine Job Bank (an on-line job posting service offered by CareerCenters).

Of the 161 youth served in the Summer Youth Employment Program in 2010 (funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), approximately 43 percent were youth with disabilities.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, WIA National Performance Reports and Wagner-Peyser State by State Performance Reports

⁵ For federal reporting purposes, customers served by the Adult and Dislocated worker programs are only counted after they have “exited”, meaning the customer has not received services within the past 90 days as of the end of the year or self-reported that they are exiting. As a result, these figures do not include everyone who received services at a CareerCenter; customers who received services within the past 90 days or who have services scheduled are not included.

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