Community Collaborations for Employment: Building Pathways That Work

Date and Time: Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern Time | 2:00-3:30 PM Central Time

Accommodations: ASL, English and Spanish captions will be provided.

Event Host: Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC), a project of the Administration for Community Living (ACL).

ACL’s Projects of National Significance (PNS) Community Collaborations for Employment (CCE) grants, launched in 2021, support stakeholder collaborations to better facilitate transitions of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) between schools to employment and community living. As the seven grants conclude their final year, the CCE teams from Kansas and North Carolina will share highlights from their work, including successful strategies, effective partnerships, outcomes, and lessons learned. Self-advocates will also discuss their employment journeys and their roles in CCE teams. This session will offer ACL grantees and organizations working to advance competitive integrated employment (CIE) practical approaches they can apply in their own communities.

Learning objectives

Understand the purpose, scope, and outcomes of CCE grants.
Learn concrete strategies to build partnerships, engage employers, and support long-term sustainability.
Explore effective marketing and communication approaches to raise awareness and demonstrate impact across communities and stakeholder networks.

Registrants can note accommodation needs — such as captioning or sign language — on the registration page. The webinar will be live captioned (with Spanish machine translations) and have American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation available. Webinars are recorded and posted with supporting materials on the Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) website.

The ACL-funded Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) provides evidence-based training and technical assistance to Administration on Disabilities (AoD) grantees for improving competitive integrated employment and economic outcomes for individuals with disabilities across the nation.