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NYC Placement Consortium

 VESID Logo - Our mission is educational equity and excellence for students with disabilities; assure appropriate continuity between the child and adult services systems; and provide the highest quality vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to enable them to work and live independent, self-directed lives.

Background

We are the New York City Placement Consortium. We are actively supported by the N.Y. State Department of Labor (NYSDOL), NYS Education Department’s Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID) and the Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (CBVH).

Early in 1985, representatives from more than twenty-four rehabilitation facilities met to determine the degree of interest in forming a consortium. The consensus clearly indicated a strong interest and need for a collaborative network of professionals working in the field of job placement and counseling for persons with disabilities.

While an eventual goal of the consortium was to develop a shared job bank service, this was not seen as the immediate or only function of this network. The areas cited as those which a consortium would be most effective were, and still are:
  • Lobbying on legislation affecting people with disabilities. This effort provides us with an opportunity to participate and impact upon legislation affecting our consumers.
  • Public Relations: To foster a positive and constructive perception of people with disabilities.
  • Conduct in-service training seminars and workshops for professionals working with people with disabilities. Thus encouraging better informed and trained vocational rehabilitation staff.

  • Provide technical assistance and training seminars to present and prospective employers of persons with a disability. Increase potential job sites and placement.
  • Development of an "EMPLOYER RESOURCE GUIDE": a manual listing and describing the membership agencies of the New York City Placement Consortium.

This manual will include a clearer definition and correct terminology by disability category as applied by the facilities that provide services to them; i.e.
The N.Y. League for the Hard of Hearing =People who are deaf or hearing impaired;
The Lighthouse =People who are blind or visually impaired; etc.
  • Joint Job Development Effort: Representatives from several agencies joining forces in a concerted marketing effort, targeting the industries that would/ could be open to specific disability clusters. Accessing industries that have historically resisted employing people with disabilities; we will present a united front, with the goal of better servicing the needs of our clients.
  • We will pre-screen job ready candidates prior to scheduling an appointment with an employer and attempt to present several qualified job candidates to the employer.
  • The net result of our efforts will be an improved vocational future for all our consumers.