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Launch of the NYESS Website
September 16, 2011
Announcing the Launch of the New York Employment Services System (NYESS) Website
Operating under a whole-person philosophy, NYS has successfully brought together its employment services systems to create a single approach to linking and coordinating employment supports, using the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant as the catalyst. NYS' 2011 Medicaid Infrastructure Grant funds the initiatives that comprise the New York Makes Work Pay program, which has provided the opportunity to bring various, disparate parties and systems together to focus on creating sustainable systems changes that will positively impact the ability of New Yorkers with disabilities to find and retain competitive and integrated employment opportunities. NYS has seized upon this opportunity, focusing a large component of Medicaid Infrastructure Grant dollars on efforts to merge the segregated disability-related employment systems into the mainstream resource that most people in NYS (and elsewhere) turn to for assistance in finding job opportunities and supports – the Department of Labor. This comprehensive employment system will provide all New Yorkers – regardless of their (dis)ability – with a single point to access all employment-related services and supports, including job matching with the approximately 90,000 jobs currently posted by employers in the
NYS Job Bank.
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