In January 2005, Hawai`i was awarded a Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to increase competitive employment outcomes for people with disabilities. The project, called Hire Abilities Hawaii, represents an innovative collaboration among the Department of Human Services (DHS), University of Hawai`i College of Education Center for Disabilities Studies (CDS), the Department of Education (DOE), the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of Labor (DOL) and its statewide Workforce Development Council. For the Benefits Online Tools beta, click here
Why Hawaii needs a Medicaid Buy-In
Would a Medicaid Buy-In be Helpful to You?
People with disabilities are often forced to choose between health care and work. This proposed Medicaid Buy-In program would allow workers to keep their Medicaid coverage as their income rises by paying a premium.
Learn more about this proposed work incentive:
Free State-wide Tax Preparation Sites
Thanks to IRS-certified volunteers working at tax assistance sites across the State, you can have your federal and state tax returns prepared for free. For the 2012 season, please click here to download a list of locations where free tax preparation is available.
Starting A Business
Information from the U.S. Small Business Administration that guides you through the process involved in starting your own business. It discusses making your decision on starting a business; writing a business plan; and getting financing. It also has information about business laws and regulations and what forms you are most likely to need in starting your own business. Please click here
Think Beyond The Label commercial
To view this commercial online, click here. We are proud to annouce the launch of this marketing campaign, called Think Beyond The Label.
Here's some resources to evolve your workplace:
For information on how to make accommodation to your employees and/or new hires, please visit www.askjan.org. The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is the leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues. Working toward practical solutions that benefit both employer and employee, JAN helps people with disabilities enhance their employability, and shows employers how to capitalize on the value and talent that people with disabilities add to the workplace.
Think Beyond the Label is committed to making the business case for employing people with disabilities. We are a partnership of health and human service and employment agencies with federal grants, coming together to build a uniform national infrastructure and approach that connects businesses to qualified candidates with disabilities. Our goal is simple: to raise awareness that hiring people with disabilities makes good business sense. Employees with disabilities have unique, competitively relevant knowledge and perspectives about work processes, bringing different perspectives to meeting work requirements and goals successfully. Hiring someone who “thinks outside the box” might be thinking too small when there’s an opportunity to hire someone who lives outside the box.
Think Beyond The Label national campaign, please visit
http://www.thinkbeyondthelabel.com
For other Think Beyond The Labecommercial, please visit
http://www.youtube.com/user/thinkbeyondthelabel
USBLN
The US Business Leadership Network® (USBLN®) is the national disability organization that serves as the collective voice of over 60 Business Leadership Network affiliates across North America, representing over 5,000 employers. The USBLN® helps build workplaces, marketplaces, and supply chains where people with disabilities are respected for their talents, while supporting the development and expansion of its BLN affiliates.
The USBLN® recognizes and supports best practices in the employment and advancement of people with disabilities; the preparedness for work of youth and students with disabilities; marketing to consumers with disabilities; and contracting with vendors with disabilities through the development and certification of disability-owned businesses.
To learn how to navigate ADA, accessibility and accommodation, we are offering a workshop here in Honolulu! Don't miss the opportunity to meet with 3 great speakers. For our workshop information, please visit here
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Workplace Diversity:A Strategic Business Advantage Workshop
Navigate ADA, Accessibility and Accommodations with the “A Team!”
Join experts and local business leaders for an interactive workshop:
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
9:00 am – 12 noon
Lunch and networking to follow
Hawai‘i Convention Center
Click here for registration form, and download the flyer here.
For more information about the workshop, please visit here. Should you have any question, please feel free to contact Chin Lee at 808.956.9142 or chinlee@hawaii.edu