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Audio Podcast: Indiana Alliance for Full Participation State Team
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October 2009
Podcast Script: Greetings and welcome to the Indiana Institute In the Spotlight Podcast. This Podcst focuses on the Indiana Alliance for Full Participation State Team.
The Indiana Alliance for Full Participation State Team is a coalition of key stakeholders in the developmental disabilities community in Indiana committed to increasing employment for people with disabilities.
Indiana’s AFP State Team includes the voices of Hoosiers with disabilities, families, employers, policy makers, providers, researchers, and community builders and is organizing in response to the National Alliance for Full Participation in promoting employment outcomes in Indiana.
The National Alliance for Full Participation is a partnership of 14 national organizations that share a common vision - to help create a better and more fulfilling quality of life for people with developmental disabilities. AFP was created with this vision and with the hope that through the diversity of our many voices we can collectively achieve this goal.
AFP is united in its commitment to the successful inclusion of people with developmental disabilities into the mainstream of American life. By bringing together the many voices within participating organizations dedicated to this cause, we will work together to make this vision a reality. AFP began in 2003 and hosted a major developmental disabilities summit in 2005 with more than 2,400 participants.
The National AFP and the Indiana State Team are setting a goal to double the employment rate for those with developmental disabilities from 22% nationally to 44%. Here in Indiana, we are a little ahead of the national average at about 28-30% according to 2008 data received from David Braddock and Indiana’s Day and Employment Services Outcome System.
The Indiana Alliance for Full Participation State Team believes that Indiana is in a good position to accelerate the employment rate in community jobs if we work together. The Alliance provides a vehicle for drawing attention to the possibilities and the need for improving employment in Indiana.
Your participation is invited and needed. Watch for more information in the months ahead regarding the activities of the Indiana Alliance for Full Participation State Team. Now is the time to accelerate employment outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Indiana!
Visit the Indiana AFP facebook page on the internet or the national AFP website at www.alliance for full participation .org