Disability Subcommittee Meeting AGENDA

Disability Subcommittee Meeting AGENDA

Disability Subcommittee Meeting
date Thursday, April 7, 2016
time 1:30 pm
place Workforce Solutions Borderplex, Inc., Norman Haley Employment Center,
300 East Main, First Floor, Yost Room, El Paso, Texas 79901
AGENDA
I.
CALL TO ORDER AND NOTE OF ATTENDANCE
Item 1.1: Approval of the Minutes of February 3, 2016 meeting (Gary Hedrick,
Disability Subcommittee Chair)
II.
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
Item 2.1: Update on Project Higher (Rick Razo, Project Manager, Project Higher)
Item 2.2: Presentation by Emergence Health Network on Mental Health First Aid classes
(Emergence Health Network)
Item 2.3: Discussion of adaptive equipment station relocation at North Loop Workforce
Center (Muriel Thomas-Borders, Real Estate Administrator)
Item 2.4: Report on Breaking Barriers Program 2016 (Janet Bono, Workforce Services
Program Administrator)
Item 2.5: Report on WIOA Disability standing committee recommendations (Janet
Bono, Workforce Services Program Administrator)
Item 2.6: Report on services provided to customers with disabilities and veterans (Janet
Bono, Workforce Services Program Administrator)
Item 2.7: Request for information on October National Disability Employment
Awareness Month activities (Gary Hedrick, Disability Subcommittee Chair)
III.
ADJOURN
Item 3.1: Discussion on items of interest for next agenda – May 5, 2016
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