WIOA Section 188 Webinar Series: Effective Outreach and Recruitment of Underserved Populations

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, Civil Rights Center, and the Employment and Training Administration have updated the “Promising Practices In Achieving Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity: A Section 188 Disability Reference Guide” to provide the workforce system with additional practices, ideas, and resources that address the systemic barriers individuals with disabilities may face because of intersecting identities and increase cultural competence of service providers who serve them. The National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Economic Advancement of People with Disabilities (LEAD Center) is hosting a three-part webinar series that will highlight the new language in the guide and provide perspective from the field from both the state and local levels. The LEAD Center will host the first webinar on January 9, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET and will showcase the new language in the guide that advances Affirmative Outreach. This webinar will focus on two themes:

• effectively reaching out to and serving individuals representing underserved communities, which includes people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality; and
• access and communication for the Deaf or hard of hearing community.