A Common Path: Navigating Your Way to Successful Negotiations in the Workplace

[Excerpt] Creating change in the workplace can be a difficult process, especially if it requires asking for job accommodations from your supervisor or boss. For many, requesting assistance can feel like an intimidating task. If an individual has decided not to disclose his or her disability or significant health issue to an employer, this situation may feel even more difficult. Yet often times accommodations are necessary to create a comfortable and effective working environment. The good news is that this interaction between employee and boss is not nearly as scary as it can appear to be. It can be, in fact, a very rewarding and empowering experience. With this in mind, “Working it Out Together” held an exciting seminar with three expert panelists. These guest speakers presented on a variety of tools and tips aimed at creating win-win situations.d

How Mental Health and Welfare to Work Interact: The Role of Hope, Sanctions, Engagement, and Support

[Excerpt] This article describes some of the lessons learned in the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) as it relates to people with psychiatric disabilities. It attempts to articulate some of the inherent difficulties faced in serving these individuals within the welfare system as well as how the established strengths of each system can inform the other’s efforts. The philosophy concerning work for clients of the welfare and mental health systems differ. Each system has developed separately, and they do not easily integrate their differing philosophies and goals. At the client level, this lack of consistency presents obvious coordination barriers. At the system level, examination of practice and the underlying philosophy of each provides incentives for cross-training and policy changes. Two case studies describe the identification of issues, opportunities, and challenges to providing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) services to individuals with mental illness. These lessons can provide guidance to mental health systems as they strive to implement evidence-based employment practices and provide welfare entities with policy direction as a result of a widening knowledge base. Specific policy and program innovations in a county and in a state are highlighted to demonstrate these issues. Finally, the authors raise areas for further inquiry and reflection

Research to Practice: Diabetes and Vocational Rehabilitation Employment Services and Outcomes

Approximately 18 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. This brief uses Rehabilitation Services Administration data to provide a picture of people with diabetes using the Vocational Rehabilitation system

Tools for Inclusion: A Common Path: Navigating Your Way to Successful Negotiations in the Workplace

Asking for job accommodations can feel intimidating, especially if an individual has decided not to disclose his or her disability. The good news is that this negotiation can be, in fact, rewarding and empowering. The Working It Out Together project asked experts for tactics to create win-win situations

Research to Practice: Employment Services and Outcomes of People Receiving Welfare Benefits and Vocational Rehabilitation Services

Poverty programs have undergone substantial reform in the past decade, and there has been a heightened interest in exploring the experiences of people with disabilities who receive welfare benefits. This report profiles people with disabilities who had TANF, GA, or both at application to VR services and completed these services in the year 2003

Institute Brief: Developing Interagency Agreements: Four Questions to Consider

Recent legislation emphasizes collaboration between state agencies. A good interagency agreement is one tool that can assist collaboration and promote systems change. Researchers offer four important considerations for an effective agreement and a worksheet for agency personnel

Data Note: Employment Outcomes for People with Diabetes in the Vocational Rehabilitation System

Approximately 18 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. Diabetes in and of itself does not necessarily qualify any given individual for disability services. However, for some individuals, diabetes can be serious enough or can lead to secondary conditions that enable them to qualify for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services

Françoise Thébaud, Écrire l’histoire des femmes et du genre

Le livre de Françoise Thébaud, Écrire l’histoire des femmes, constitue une contribution importante à l’historiographie de la France et a reçu un accueil très favorable en 1998. Méditation, en premier lieu, sur l’évolution professionnelle de son auteure, le livre analyse en outre le développement de « l’histoire des femmes » et les débats théoriques et méthodologiques qui l’ont marqué. Cette nouvelle édition rend compte des développements jusqu’à l’année 2007 et met à jour la bibliographie. Co..

« J’avais tant besoin d’être aimée … par correspondance » : les discours de l’amour dans la correspondance de Léonie Léon et Léon Gambetta, 1872-1882

De 1872 à sa mort à la fin de 1882, Léon Gambetta et son amante Léonie Léon ont échangé quelque 6 000 lettres, dont presque 1 100 ont été conservées. En raison de l’importance politique de Gambetta, l’un des pères fondateurs de la Troisième République, cette correspondance constitue une source exceptionnelle sur les luttes des républicains pour établir une véritable République. Il s’agit en outre d’une correspondance romantique parmi les plus belles du XIXe siècle. À travers leurs lettres, Léonie Léon et Léon Gambetta se montrent des amoureux profondément ancrés dans les pratiques culturelles de leur époque, pratiques marquées à la fois par des conventions littéraires et des conventions de rapport social de sexe. Ces lettres, étudiées à la lumière des théories d’épistolarité, nous démontrent les richesses d’un discours d’amour façonné par un désir autant politique que personnel.Between 1872 and his death at the end of 1882, Léon Gambetta exchanged some 6,000 letters with his lover, Léonie Léon. More than a thousand of these letters have survived. Given the political importance of Gambetta, this correspondence represents an exceptional source for studying the republican struggle to establish a true Republic. It is also one of the most beautiful romantic correspondences of the nineteenth century. In their letters, Léonie Léon and Léon Gambetta emerge as lovers deeply embedded in the cultural practices of their day, practices marked simultaneously by literary and gender conventions. Studied in the light of theories of epistolarity, these letters reveal the richness of a romantic discourse fashioned by desire that was simultaneously political and personal