Metropolitan Center for Independent Living(MCIL)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 9:00a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The public is invited to a forum on employment services for Minnesotans with disabilities to be held in Golden Valley on Wednesday, June 25.

The meeting will be hosted by the Minnesota State Rehabilitation Council in partnership with the Golden Valley Human Rights Commission and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).

The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the City Council chambers, Golden Valley City Hall, 7800 Golden Valley Rd.

The public is welcome at any time throughout the day. No registration is required to attend.

The morning session, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., features a dialogue between council members and a panel of experts on employment discrimination and disability.

The afternoon session is set aside for State Rehabilitation Council members to hear from the public about unmet needs for disability related employment services in Minnesota, and about public satisfaction with current services.

At least 175,000 Minnesotans of working age experience significant difficulty finding or keeping employment due to long-lasting disabilities, according to Kimberley Peck, director of DEED's Rehabilitation Services and a member of the State Rehabilitation Council. Rehabilitation Services has offices statewide, assisting individuals with disabilities to prepare for, find or keep jobs and careers of their choice. Peck said information will also be available at the forum for high school and college students interested in learning about careers with Rehabilitation Services.

DEED's Rehabilitation Services branch maintains offices at each of the state's WorkForce Centers, offering services through its Vocational Rehabilitation, Extended Employment and Independent Living programs.

Contact Gail Lundeen, DEED Rehabilitation Services, toll-free at 1-800-328-9095, or 651-259-7364; or TTY at 1-800-657-3973 for questions about the forum or requests for accommodations. Real-time captioning and sign language interpreters will be available.

MCIL'S NEW WEBSITE

Welcome to MCIL's new web site. We are excited about this new web site for many reasons. First, we want to make this web site a destination that brings you up-to-date news and information related to the disability community. Second, we want this site to facilitate communication between community members and MCIL staff. Third, we want to integrate various tools such as on-line evaluation forms, downloadable federal, state, and local forms, and other useful documents that people may need. Finally, the overall idea behind this new web site is that it will increase the capacity of MCIL to meet the needs of our consumers, staff, and others who have a stake in issues and topics in the disability community.

Creating MCIL's web site has been a quite the undertaking and we recognize that there may be things we need to address. Accessibility is of vital importance and if you have an issue view and/or using our web site, please let us know and we will do what we can to address the issue. We recognize that there will be issues and we ask that you be patient when issues do arise. Our goal is to make this site usable and accessible to all people.

Again, we are excited about our new website as we use it as a tool to reach more people and to address issues within the disability community. We hope you visit often and find the site useful.


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