The Minnesota Employment Training Services & Technical Assistance Support Center, or MNTAT for short, was recently funded by the MN Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) at the Dept. of Human Services Disability Division, Pathways to Employment.
Briefly, the MNTAT will: Design and broker state of the art, person-centered employment training and technical assistance using proven, inventive, and evidence-based methods that meld the needs of employment seekers (supply-side), the business community (demand-side), service providers, policy makers, families ,educators, workforce development professionals and other Minnesota stakeholders.
Accomplishing these tasks requires a multi-year approach, developing a series of classroom and on-line courses, establishing at least 5 customized employment development and demonstration sites, developing best-practice examples, and proposing policy that supports the full employment of Minnesotans with disabilities. The Center will take a economic development approach to employment, utilizing both wage and self-employment strategies, and will create the labor market rather than reacting to it.
For now, this blog is simply providing an introduction to the Training and Technical Assistance Center. We will be adding our website soon, which will include training schedules, materials and resources related to employment, updates on the Development Sites, and links to related organizations, opportunities, and sites. Down the road, this blog will host discussions of various employment strategies and related topics.
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Also, please check the right-hand column, at the bottom, for articles and resource materials relevant to employment and Minnesota. Comments on these are welcome too!
Thanks so much! We look forward to meeting you during the soon-to-be-scheduled Town Hall Meetings!
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