As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1)Agency partners means the department, the department of health care
policy and financing, the department of education, the department of higher
education, the department of human services, the Colorado office of employment
first, JFK partners within the department of pediatrics of the university of Colorado
school of medicine, and the university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus.
(2)Career development planning means a person-centered process that
identifies the individual's employment goals and objectives; the services and
supports needed to achieve those goals and objectives; the persons, agencies, and
providers assigned to assist the individual in attaining the goals; and the obstacles
faced by the individua
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As used in this part 3, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Agency partners means the department, the department of health care
policy and financing, the department of education, the department of higher
education, the department of human services, the Colorado office of employment
first, JFK partners within the department of pediatrics of the university of Colorado
school of medicine, and the university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus.
(2) Career development planning means a person-centered process that
identifies the individual's employment goals and objectives; the services and
supports needed to achieve those goals and objectives; the persons, agencies, and
providers assigned to assist the individual in attaining the goals; and the obstacles
faced by the individual working in competitive integrated employment. Career
development planning reflects a presumption that all persons with disabilities are
capable of working in a competitive integrated employment setting.
(3) Competitive integrated employment means work paid directly by
employers at the greater of the state or federal minimum wage or prevailing wage
with commensurate benefits, occurring in a typical work setting where the
employee with a disability interacts or has the opportunity to interact continuously
with coworkers without disabilities, not including supervisory personnel or
individuals who are providing services to the employee with a disability, and the
employee with a disability has an opportunity for advancement or job mobility, and
is engaged, preferably, in full-time work.
(4) Discovery process means a process to discover already existing
information about a job seeker that is based on information obtained from a
person's entire life and not from short instances of job performance. The
information is gathered from the job seeker and others to determine the job
seeker's interests, skills, and preferences related to potential employment that
guide the development of a customized job.
(5) Employment first means a framework for change in the provision of
services that is centered on the premise that all persons, including persons with
significant disabilities, are capable of full participation in competitive integrated
employment and community life. Under this framework, in providing publicly funded
services, employment in the general workforce is the first and preferred outcome
for all working-age persons with disabilities, regardless of the level of disability.
Publicly funded agencies and systems align policies, service delivery practices,
funding, and reimbursement structures in order to achieve competitive integrated
employment.
(6) Employment first advisory partnership or partnership means the
partnership described in section 8-84-303.
(7) Persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities has the same
meaning as person with an intellectual and developmental disability as set forth
in section 25.5-10-202, C.R.S.
(8) State employment leadership network means the joint partnership
between the national association of state directors of developmental disabilities
services and the institute for community inclusion at the university of
Massachusetts Boston or another similar organization that facilitates collaboration
with other states to share effective solutions to increase employment outcomes for
persons with disabilities.