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WorkLink:

Creating meaningful lives for people with disabilities

UCSF Developmental Disabilities Conference March 4, 2016 Sara Murphy

How do we help people with I/DD to become active, productive members

• f our communities?

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• Program Goals: 1)Maximize Independence,

2)Build skills, 3)Direct Hire Employment

• A menu of braided services– allows us to build

service plans to order

• 100% Community‐based
• WORK Focused‐ value adding
• Individualized, person‐centered

WorkLink’s Services

What People Want in Life

• Employment (money & self‐worth)
• Engagement in community & friends
• A happy home, a sanctuary
• Health
• Choices/options
• Freedom &

Independence

• Meaningful lives

Meaningful (adj.): full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice

‐ Dictionary.com

Community‐based Support Services

• Explore interests
• Develop social and

professional networks

• Gain independence,

self‐confidence

• Learn hard/soft skills
• As natural supports

are developed, program services fade

Adding Value and Building Skills Volunteering

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Creating Meaningful Lives

• Employed at GAP 9 hrs a
• week. Earns $12.53/hr.

plus stock options

• Learning to cook at

Project Open Hand

• Swimming & Zumba @

24 Hour Fitness

• Volunteers for Save the

Redwoods

• Independently travels on

bus/Metro all over town

• Loves the Karaoke bars in

Japantown

Anna

CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYMENT

Our focus is on STRENGTHS, not deficits

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Help Wanted

Company looking for individual with developmental disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, autism and history of aggressive behaviors. Auditory processing delays. Lack of Visual/Motor integration, Extensive history of hospitalization preferred. Drug addiction, poor social skills and delusional behaviors OK. Call for an application.

We must re‐frame how we see individuals with disabilities.

See DISABILITY as human variance

Julio and his co‐workers at IDEO.org

Reframing: ROY (aka the Tornado)

What the file said:

• Bombed out of

3 programs/5 jobs

• AD/Hyperactive
• Moderate/severe ID/DD
• Can’t sit still, can’t focus
• Anger management issues,

behavior problems

• Limited academic skills
• Low motivation
• Stubborn

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What we said:

• Physically active guy
• Very, very outgoing
• Has to move
• Hates getting up in the

mornings

• Loves variety
• Can match numbers and

use site words

• Opinioned, passionate
• Gearhead‐loves

expensive cars

Fast Paced, Lots of Variety Good with his Hands

Roy’s VENN Diagram

Use VENN diagrams to target employment settings based on candidate’s unique characteristics.

Employee of the Year Divisadero Car Wash

CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYMENT

It Works!

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WorkLink Employment Outcomes

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2015

Outcomes Number Working 21

• Ave. Hours/week

19 hours/wk Range of Hours 4 to 40 hours Range of Wages $12.25‐$22.86/hr. Average wage $13.65/hr. % of Successful Closure (transfer to Habilitation) 95% Number of Placements in 2014‐15 4 In Job Development 7

Alvin, Patient Transporter Kaiser Permanente/San Francisco

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Jessie, Development Assistant American Conservatory Theater

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Karen, Packer/catering support Bi‐Rite Markets

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Enrique, Office/lab assistant Diadexus Delmy, Housekeeping Equinox

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Simon, Office Clerk, Phillips, Spallis and Angstadt, LLP Simon’s Path to Success

• Started in volunteer jobs

learning hard & soft skills

• Polished skills in professional

setting (Project SEARCH KP)

• Now employed as a clerk at

PSA, 18 hrs a week, $16/hr.

• Day Services continue 12

hours/wk: Koret House (laundry & cleaning), Let’s Get Lost (problem solving), POH (initiation & communication)

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“The greatest danger may not be that our aim is too high and we miss it, but rather that it is too low and we reach it.” ‐ Michelangelo

For more information, contact:

Sara Murphy

TransCen, Inc./ WorkLink Program 785 Market Street, Suite 670 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.979.9520 smurphy@transcen.org www.transcen.org

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