Public Meeting Notice  Workforce Supports Subcommittee Meeting

This subcommittee will collect data and analyze initiatives that address the workforce crisis for people who provide services to individuals with disabilities.

Agenda

1. Welcome, Roll Call, and Introductions
    
2. Workforce Support Panel Session:

• Ellen Attaliades, CEO Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers
• Michael Weekes, CEO and Bill Yelenak from the Providers’ Council
• Barbara L’Italien, Executive Director; Rick Glassman, Director of Advocacy and Hillary Stanisz, Senior Attorney from the Disability Law Center
• Mary McGeown, Undersecretary of Human Services Executive Office of Health and Human Services
   

3. Adjournment
   
   
   Meeting information: 

• Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom webinar and live streamed for the public at https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4617
• Zoom link:
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84621317122
• CART service will be available embedded in Zoom with captions and through a separate URL: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=StatehouseADA  
• ASL interpreters will be provided 
• For accessibility requests and other questions, contact Imene Bouziane Saidi at imene.bouzianesaidi@mass.gov
  
  Meeting documents (attached and linked): 
• N/A 

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• National Disability Employment Awareness Month Celebration coming up on October 5 2023! https://www.mass.gov/news/national-disability-employment-awareness-month-celebration