Disability Access Committee
Mission
The Disability Access Standing Committee’s mission is to address issues relating to providing workforce services to individuals with disabilities, including (but not limited to):
- Issues relating to compliance with applicable state and federal nondiscrimination laws regarding the provision of programmatic and physical access to the services, programs, and activities of the state workforce development system.
- Appropriate training for staff on providing supports for or accommodations to, and finding employment opportunities for, individuals with disabilities.
Goals
- Ensure that Iowa’s one-stop delivery system meets all accessibility requirements for individuals with disabilities under the ICRA, ADA, and WIOA; and
- Increase accessibility for individuals with disabilities to the programs, services, and activities of Iowa’s one-stop delivery system.
- Continuously improve for individuals with disabilities the provision of services within the one-stop delivery system.
- Improve opportunities for individuals with disabilities in competitive integrated employment.
Each Local Workforce Development Board has been tasked with creating a Local Disability Access Committee to work with the State Disability Access Committee as part of the statewide initiative.
The State Disability Access Committee will provide direction, guidance, and technical assistance to the Local Disability Access Committees to help meet the goals of the statewide initiative.
Youth Standing Committee
Mission
The Southwest Iowa Local Workforce Development Board created the Youth Standing Committee to provide information and to assist local workforce development boards with planning, operational, and other issues relating to the provision of services to youth.