Stakeholder Consultation Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Department of Labor (DOL)

1. Stakeholder Consultation Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Department of Labor (DOL) DRAFT Strategic Plan FY 2010-2016 Draft: February 22, 2010

2. ODEP Overview • ODEP • Mission: The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) provides national leadership by developing and influencing disability employment-related policies and practices affecting an increase in the employment of people with disabilities. • Leadership: Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary • Organization: • 52 FTE in the National and Regional Offices • Current FY 2010 Resources: $ 39,031,000

3. ODEP Goals ODEP supports the following Department of Labor Strategic Goals and Outcome Goals: • Strategic Goal 1: Prepare workers for good jobs and ensure fair compensation. • Increase workers’ incomes and narrowing wage and income inequality. • Assure skills and knowledge that prepare workers to succeed in a knowledge-based economy, including in high-growth and emerging industry sectors like “green” jobs. • Help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle class jobs. • Help middle-class families remain in the middle class. • Strategic Goal 3: Assure fair and high quality work-life environments. • Break down barriers to fair and diverse workplaces so that every worker’s contribution is respected. • Ensure worker voice in the workplace. • Strategic Goal 4: Secure health benefits and, for those not working, provide income security. • Improve health benefits and retirement security for all workers. • Facilitate return to work for workers experiencing workplace injuries or illnesses who are able to work and sufficient income and medical care for those who are unable to work. • Strategic Goal 5: Foster fair working conditions in the global marketplace. • Assure that global markets are governed by fair market rules that protect vulnerable people, including women and children, and provide workers a fair share of their productivity and voice in their work lives.

4. ODEP Results • We are measuring results differently. • ODEP recognizes that determining the impact of policy change takes years. Therefore, ODEP will measure its efforts through a continuum of short-term, intermediate, long-term and strategic performance measures. • How will we measure success? • Short-term: Number of policy outputs, formal agreements and effective practices • Intermediate: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers adopting ODEP identified disability employment related policy and practices. • Long-term: Number of targeted Federal, state and local agencies and employers implementing ODEP identified disability employment-related policy and practices. • Strategic Impact: Number of workers with disabilities: served and trained through the One Stop system and exiting with minimum wage jobs retained for six months or longer; employed by Federal contractors; employed by and accommodated within Federal agencies; returning to work under FECA; and benefiting from ODEP policies and policy strategies in partner countries within the European Union. • Do you believe these are the right outcomes? • Do you believe these are the right measures for those outcomes?

5. ODEP Strategies • We are using new approaches. • ODEP will undertake critical inter-agency policy development and policy strategy activities, as well as public-private partnerships, to improve the labor force participation of all people with disabilities. • Our strategies to achieve these goals include: • Leverage incentives and reduce disincentives to securing “good jobs.” • Increase Federal workforce participation and make the government a model employer. • Ensure the availability of and access to universally usable workplace technology. • Increase and improve access to Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs. • Reduce discrimination, ensure civil rights protections, and promote affirmative hiring programs and authorities. • Improve return-to-work outcomes. • Increase integrated employment at minimum wage or above. • Transition returning wounded and injured service members to “good jobs.” • Improve employment outcomes for diverse populations, including women, minorities and transition age youth with disabilities. • Do these strategies make sense to you?

6. Questions If you would like to send comments to DOL or to learn more about the DOL strategic planning process, please visit http://www.dol.gov/strategicplan2010.