Employment Assistance For Workers With Disabilities

Section § 18000

This law focuses on making sure that California's one-stop job centers are accessible to people with disabilities, whether they offer services in person or online. The goal is to help disabled individuals improve their job prospects.

Additionally, it requires local workforce boards to plan and report on how they provide services to disabled jobseekers and employers. Some centers may also decide to implement the federal Ticket to Work program to further assist these efforts.

(a) It is the purpose of this division to ensure that workforce preparation services provided through California’s one-stop centers, including information and services provided electronically, are accessible to employers and jobseekers with disabilities.

(b) It is further the intent of the Legislature that one-stop centers provide appropriate services to individuals with disabilities to enhance their employability.

(c) It is further the intent of the Legislature that, in order to achieve the goals specified in subdivisions (a) and (b), local workforce investment boards plan for and report on services to jobseekers and employers with disabilities, including the implementation of the federal Ticket to Work program for those local workforce investment boards and one-stop centers that choose to implement the Ticket to Work program in their local workforce investment areas.

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Section § 18002

This law requires local workforce boards in California to set up comprehensive career centers in each area they manage. These centers must offer various services specified by a federal act, ensuring people, including those with disabilities, can access these resources.

Key services include orientation and outreach, initial skills assessments, eligibility checks for programs, labor market info, and unemployment filing assistance. Centers should also provide intensive services like personalized employment plans and specialized counseling. They must deliver training programs, such as skills training, job readiness, and literacy activities combined with training.

Each local workforce investment board shall establish at least one comprehensive one-stop career center in each local workforce investment area. These one-stop centers shall ensure access to services pursuant to Section 134(d) of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2864(d)), including services for persons with disabilities, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) Outreach, intake, and orientation.

(b) Initial assessments of skills, aptitudes, abilities, and need for support services.

(d) Information on the local, regional, and national labor market.

(e) Information on filing for unemployment insurance.

(f) Access to intensive services as needed, including, but not limited to, comprehensive and specialized assessments of skill levels and service needs, development of individual employment plans, group counseling, individual counseling and career planning, case management for participants seeking training services under subdivision (g), and short-term prevocational services, such as learning, communication, interview, and other jobseeking and work related skills to help prepare individuals for unsubsidized employment and training.

(g) Training services, including, but not limited to, occupational skills training, on-the-job training, workplace training and cooperative education programs, private sector training programs, skills upgrade and retraining, entrepreneurial training, job readiness training, adult education, and literacy activities combined with training, and customized training.

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Section § 18004

This law requires local workforce investment boards to regularly review their one-stop centers. The goal is to ensure these centers and their providers are effectively including people with disabilities in their programs and activities.

The local workforce investment boards shall schedule and conduct regular performance reviews of their one-stop centers to determine whether the centers and providers are providing effective and meaningful opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in the programs and activities of the centers and providers.

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Section § 18006

One-stop center counselors are required to give clear information to people receiving Supplemental Security Income, State Supplemental Program, and Social Security Disability Insurance about how working might affect their benefits. This includes directing them to benefits planners who can help. Additionally, these counselors must inform individuals with disabilities on how to access Medi-Cal benefits as explained in another law section.

One-stop center counselor staff shall provide accurate information to beneficiaries of Supplemental Security Income and the State Supplemental Program and Social Security Disability Insurance on the implications of work for these individuals. The information shall include, but not be limited to, referrals to appropriate benefits’ planners. One-stop center counselor staff shall also provide accurate information to individuals with disabilities on how they may gain access to Medi-Cal benefits pursuant to Section 14007.9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

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Section § 18008

This law ensures that California's one-stop career centers, managed by local workforce boards, are accessible and serve the needs of workers and employers with disabilities. The Governor is responsible for making sure these centers are evaluated on their ability to provide services that are fully accessible. They must offer assistive technology, train staff on how to assess and serve those with disabilities, include disability community representatives in planning, and develop regional employment networks that support the federal Ticket to Work program.

In order to ensure that one-stop career centers operated by local workforce investment boards meet the needs of workers and employers with disabilities, the Governor shall ensure that evaluations conducted pursuant to Sections 134 (a)(2)(B)(ii) and (v) of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2864(a)(2)(B)(ii) and (v)), address how local one-stop centers provide all of the following:

(a) Full access to workforce development services for their disabled community.

(b) Assistive technology to ensure access to services.

(d) Representation of the disability community in program planning and service delivery.

(e) The development of regional employment networks to participate in the federal Ticket to Work program and the role of the local board and one-stop centers in the Ticket to Work program.

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Section § 18010

This section requires the California Workforce Investment Board to provide a report to both the Governor and the Legislature by September 30, 2004. The report should focus on the progress and current status of one-stop services available to individuals with disabilities and the implementation status of the federal Ticket to Work program within the state.

The California Workforce Investment Board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature by September 30, 2004, on the status of one-stop services to individuals with disabilities and implementation of the federal Ticket to Work program in California.

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Section § 18012

This law suggests that if federal law allows, California's Workforce Investment Boards should include people with disabilities or their representatives. They are especially encouraged to involve those who do not work for state or local government.

If permitted by federal law, the California Workforce Investment Board and local workforce investment boards shall include persons with disabilities or their representatives, with a particular effort to include such persons who are not employees of state or local government.

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