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Self Employment
Part II
DOL / VETS
Competitive Grantees Conference
Denver, Colorado – August, 7 2007
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Rich Toscano
National consultant to the Northeast Program Evaluation
Center at Yale / New Haven on Evidence-based
research initiatives for veterans with mental illness,
substance abuse issues and spinal cord injuries
Currently servicing as a Public Service Adjunct Faculty
capacity at the University of Georgia – Institute on
Human Development and Disability where he oversees
the implementation of Olmstead related initiatives for
Customized Employment, an ODEP/Workforce Action
Grant sponsored by the Statewide Independent Living
Center.
2
Daria Pampaloni
PsychoSocial Rehabilitation Fellow at Yale
School of Medicine currently working for
the VA West Haven, CT campus as a
Compensated Work Therapy/Supported
Employment Specialist
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Resources / Services / Trends
4
Elements of Customized (Self) Employment
5
Stories from Veterans Business
Owners Association
West Haven, Connecticut
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Building Partnerships and
Expanding the Networks
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Building Partnerships and
Expanding the Networks…..
During the voc assessment / discovery process,
the Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist met a
veteran in his community with an interest in
accessible housing
A well established real estate developer, known
to one of the staff in the Spinal Cord Unit, was
asked to join his employment planning team to
discuss the viability of starting a consulting
business on accessibility issues with local
builders and developers
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Building Partnerships and
Expanding the Networks …..
Tommy receives a service connected pension of
$6500/month. He needs assistance in
formalizing his customized / self employment
idea.
DOL/VETS, Disabled American Vets, could be
poised to join this customized planning team to
maximize resources, contacts and outcomes.
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Summary of Self Employment
Process
Discovery of the Person
Employment Plan resulting in potential
Business Concepts
Business Team Formed
Research & Feasibility
Benefit Planning
Business Plan
Initial Implementation
Review, Revise, and Implement
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Understandings