Maine's CHOICES CEO Project
Expanding Opportunities for Workers with Disabilities
Resource Library
Browse Resources by Category
- Employment Practices and Opportunities
- Reports, studies and links regarding employer and employee experiences, attitudes and concerns; resources for employers; and reports of opportunities for workers with disabilities.
- Employment Services and Support
- Information, links and reports about employment services, such as vocational rehabilitation, benefits counseling, personal assistant services in the workplace, and the Ticket to Work program.
- State Employment
- Resources for state employees and managers. Plus, links and documents pertaining to current efforts by the Maine state government to expand employment opportunities for workers with disabilities.
- Youth and Employment
- Information on improving the experience of young people with disabilities who are transitioning from school to work.
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs
- Reports and links about MaineCare Workers with Disabilities Option (Medicaid), the Part D prescription drug plan (Medicare); and Medicaid Buy-in programs generally.
- Disability Statistics, Data-Collection and Integration
- Reports, studies and links concerning the number of workers with disabilities, their income, use of services, trends in employment and wages and more. Also, information on efforts to integrate data across agencies and service providers.
- Products of the CHOICES CEO Project 2000-2009
- Studies, reports, news about disability and employment in Maine, plus, our strategic plan.
Conferences and Training
Ongoing Conference and Training Opportunities
- Training Calendars for the Maine Employment Curriculum
- Training Resources compiled by Maine's Department of Health and Human Services related to employment, behavioral health and developmental services
- Speaking Up for Us of Maine (SUFU), provides outreach and training for individuals and organizations about self-advocacy and other issues that are important to people who live with disabilities.
- New England Training Events and Resources compiled by the Institute for Community Inclusion in Boston
- Training Events compiled by the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire
- National and Inter-national Disability-related Conferences compiled by Online Conferencing Systems
- The Community Living Association (CLA) in Houlton, Maine, serves people with mental retardation and autism. For a CLA calendar of training events for service providers, please contact Mark Morin.
