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Lanterman Regional Center is a Board-approved Employment First Center. We believe every individual of working age, regardless of abilities, has the right to seek and obtain employment.

Employment First Policy

It is the intent of this Employment First Policy to facilitate integrated, competitive employment for adults supported by Lanterman Regional Center. We believe that integrated, competitive employment should be the first consideration for all individuals with developmental disabilities, therefore this will be the first option considered by planning teams for every working age adult.

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The Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) was signed into law on July 22, 2014 by President Obama and went into effect on July 1, 2015. The primary purpose of the Act in relation to individuals with disabilities is to increase access to high-quality workforce services to prepare them for competitive integrated employment (CIE). WIOA promotes training and program services for competitive and integrated work for individuals with disabilities. Youth with disabilities are to receive extensive pre-employment transition services to obtain and retain CIE.

More information about WIOA is contained in this flowchart.

What Employment Options Are Available?

There are a variety of employment options, including:
  • Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) – The preferred outcome of employment services.
  • Community Integration Training Program (CITP) – Support focused on enabling individuals to attain maximum ability.
  • Supported Employment
    • Individual – Assists people supported by Lanterman in finding and keeping competitive employment.
    • Group – A time-limited bridge to competitive employment.
  • Paid Internship Program (PIP)
  • Tailored Day Services
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Employment and Your Individual Program Plan (IPP)

Let your service coordinator know that you would like to develop a Person-Centered Plan for Employment. At your Individual Program Plan meeting, the first option that will be discussed is Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE). Competitive Integrated Employment is a real choice. Your service coordinator can help you identify which employment options and services are right for you.

Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE)

All people have the right to work at jobs that pay minimum wage or more, provide opportunities for raises and advancement, and have people with and without disabilities working together. This is called Competitive Integrated Employment or CIE. Lanterman and our community workforce partners can support people to obtain CIE through full or part-time employment, self-employment, micro-enterprise, or contract jobs and skilled work. Community and Lanterman funded employment services can be authorized through the planning team process for individuals who choose to work.

 

Note: California Senate Bill 639 specifies that effective January 1, 2025, an employee with a disability shall not be paid less than the legal minimum wage required by Section 1182.12 or the applicable local minimum wage ordinance, whichever is higher. (SB 639, Sec. 2. Section 1191(b) of the Labor Code). For more information about this law, visit LegiScan.

Community Integration Training Programs (CITP)

Community Integration Training Programs (CITP) support individuals to actively engage in their local communities in ways that both honor individualized choice while helping foster employability, and may be coordinated with other services. These activities develop connections that can become steppingstones toward competitive integrated employment opportunities.

CITPs that provide employment services offer alternatives to traditional day programs and allow flexibility to meet individualized or newly identified needs for employment services and support.

Supported Employment

Individual Supported Employment (ISE) services are designed to assist individuals supported by Lanterman in obtaining and maintaining Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE).

Supports may include a process of discovering an individual’s strengths, talents and interests; person-centered planning for employment; business planning and micro-enterprise support; soft skills training (e.g. workplace communication, professionalism and attitude, teamwork and problem solving), transportation, employment preparation, and job-specific skills; paid work experience and internships; job development and placement; and job coaching or on-the-job training and support.

Group Supported Employment (GSE) is intended to be a time-limited bridge to CIE. Lanterman is committed to assisting GSE providers in preparing individuals for transition to CIE. The goal of GSE is to provide work experience and foundational employment preparation services that will result in successful transition to individual employment in the community.

Paid Internship Program (PIP)

The purpose of the Paid Internship Program (PIP) is to increase the employment skills of adults supported by the regional center who choose to participate in a paid internship. Through the Individual Program Plan (IPP) process, the adult is supported by a service provider to find an internship opportunity with a collaborative employer and assist him/her to develop skills and good work habits throughout the internship. The goal is for the individual to gain experience and skills for future paid employment, or for the internship itself to lead to full- or part-time paid employment with the same job. The individual’s wages, which must be at minimum wage or above, are paid through regional center purchase of service funding.

Tailored Day Services (TDS)

Tailored Day Services (TDS) are designed to maximize an individual’s choices and needs, with customization of day services with the goal of further development of an individual’s employment suitability through customized training services. Tailored Day Services provide opportunities for increased integration and inclusion, as well as further opportunities for the individual to develop or maintain employment/volunteer activities, and pursue postsecondary education.

View TDS handout

Adult Day Services

Adult Day Services are community-based programs intended to provide adults who do not work with the opportunity to have a pattern of life similar to non-disabled individuals. Adult day programs provide adults with planned activities for up to 30 hours per week. Day Services help develop and maintain:

  • Employment skills
  • Self-advocacy
  • Self-help and self-care skills
  • Communication and interaction with others
  • Community integration skills (e.g., accessing community services)
  • Behavior management to help improve behaviors
  • Social and recreational skills

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Understanding Benefits

Local Community Work Incentive Coordinators:

Calculators, CA specific information regarding work and benefits:

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