Employment First Missouri
Employment First Missouri provides training and technical assistance to service providers and staff to make Missouri’s Employment First vision a reality, advancing community employment for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Services include individualized technical assistance for service providers, in-person and online training, and support for numerous capacity-building efforts in Missouri, including Missouri’s Technology First initiative.
The ICI’s in-state training and technical assistance staff work with service providers throughout the entire state of Missouri on such areas as:
- service flow and structure
- business engagement
- building of staff competencies
- engaging participants and their families and systems of support
- expanding funding sources
- building relationships with community partners
Further details are available on the project’s website.
Funding for this initiative is provided by the Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of Developmental Disabilities to the ICI.