Texas Workforce Solutions - Disability Navigator Initiative
Our Goal is to increase access to employment and training services and work incentives, and to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities. |
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The Texas Disability Navigator Initiative establishes a specialized position in local workforce areas, a Disability Program Navigator (Navigator), to facilitate staff growth and system development.
Texas Navigators:
- Build system capacity by assisting and training staff to more effectively serve people with disabilities
- Strengthen relationships with community partners to achieve collaborative services
- Provide information to businesses and increase their capabilities of hiring and retaining people with disabilities
Learn more about what a Navigator is.
Fourteen Workforce Boards and the Texas Workforce Commission implemented the Texas initiative in 2006, joining an ongoing national project. The Texas initiative is expanding into the remaining workforce areas during 2009.
Review DOL's FACT SHEET (PDF) about the national initiative.
The map below illustrates the 28 workforce areas in Texas. For Navigator contact information, click on an area of the map, or the area's name on the list.
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