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Disability Employment Initiative

The Disability Employment Initiative (DEI) is jointly funded and administered by the United States Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the Office of Disability Employment Policy.

This federally-funded disability employment service is available in the ten Career Centers listed below. The DOL provides seamless Workforce Investment Act (WIA) services and accessibility for everyone served in all NYS Career Centers, including individuals with disabilities.

The DEI’s purposes include the following:

Improve educational, training, and employment opportunities and outcomes for adults with disabilities who are unemployed, underemployed, and/or receiving Social Security disability benefits, by refining and expanding already identified successful public workforce strategies;
Help these individuals with disabilities find a path into the middle class through exemplary and model service delivery by the public workforce system;
Improve coordination and collaboration among employment, training and asset development programs implemented at state and local levels, including the expansion of the public workforce investment system's capacity to serve as Employment Networks under the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work Program; and
Build effective community partnerships that leverage public and private resources to better serve individuals with disabilities and improve employment outcomes.

The Disability Resource Coordinator, among other responsibilities, will:

Help expand the workforce development system to serve as Employment Networks under the Ticket to Work program;
Provide services to Ticket Holders, as credentialed Benefits and Work Incentives Advisors;
Develop and maintain partnerships and collaborative activities;
Help ensure that job seekers with disabilities access all of the different programs and services they need to meet their employment and asset development goals;
Assist with Career Center staff and partner training; and
Assist in maintaining and ensuring the accessibility of the Career Centers.

For more information about the DEI, visit https://dei.workforcegps.org/.

Special Populations Team - Staff Contact Information

E-Mail: [email protected]

Sara Harms
Special Populations Team DEI State Lead - Round 6 (Adult)
Workforce Programs Specialist
State Office Campus
Building 12, Room 440
Albany, New York 12240
P: (518) 457-2369

Kerry Wiley
Special Populations Team DEI State Lead - Round 8 (Youth)
Workforce Programs Specialist
State Office Campus
Building 12, Room 440
Albany, New York 12240
P: (518) 485-2588

Alan Gallagher
Special Populations Team Supervisor
Workforce Programs Specialist 3
State Office Campus
Building 12, Room 440
Albany, New York 12240
P: (518) 457-2381

County	Disability Resource Coordinator	Employment Network
Albany	John Banas [email protected] P: (518) 270-2860	Career Central 175 Central Avenue Albany, New York 12206
Broome	Randall Cook [email protected] P: (607) 778-6478	Broome County Career Center 171 Front Street Binghamton, New York 13905
Cayuga	Emily Tortorici [email protected] P: (315) 253-1013	Cayuga Works Career Center 199 Franklin Street, Suite 204 Auburn, New York 13021
Chautauqua	Lori Fabritius [email protected] P: (716) 487-5127	Workforce Investment Board 4 E. 3rd Street, Suite 102 Jamestown, NY 14701 Chautauqua Works 407 Central Avenue Dunkirk, New York 14048
Chenango	Alan Sessions mailto:[email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 109 Kathy DeAngelo [email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 113	CDO Workforce 1 Ohara Drive Norwich, New York 13815
Cortland	Emily Tortorici [email protected] P: (315) 253-1013	Cayuga Works Career Center 199 Franklin Street, Suite 204 Auburn, New York 13021
Delaware	Alan Sessions mailto:[email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 109 Kathy DeAngelo [email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 113	CDO Workforce 1 Gallant Avenue Delhi, New York 13753 CDO Workforce 21 Liberty Street Sidney, New York 13838
Erie	Laurie Schaller mailto:[email protected] P: (585) 447-8257	Wyoming County Community 6470 Rt. 20A Suite 1 Perry, NY 14530
Madison	Charlene Levonski [email protected] P: (315) 867-1353	Madison County Working Solutions Career Center 133 N. Court Street Wampsville, NY 13163
Nassau	Maria Lombardi [email protected] P: (516) 485-5000 ext. 1113	Hempstead Works Career Center Hempstead Executive Plaza 50 Clinton Street, Suite 400 Hempstead, New York 11550
Niagara	Marilyn Patterson [email protected] P: (716) 278-1695	Niagara's WorkSourceOne 1001 11th Street Niagara Falls, New York 14301
Oneida	Charlene Levonski [email protected] P: (315) 867-1353	Utica Working Solutions Career Center 207 Genesee Street #201 Utica, NY 13501 Rome Working Solutions Career Center 300 W Dominick Street Rome, NY 13440
Orange	Veronica Jones [email protected] P: (845) 346-0318	Orange Works Career Center 18 Seward Ave First Floor Middletown, NY 10940 Orange Works Career Center The Maple Building 3 Washington Center, 4th Floor Newburgh, New York 12550
Otsego	Alan Sessions mailto:[email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 109 Kathy DeAngelo [email protected] P: (607) 432-4800, Ext. 113	CDO Workforce 12 Dietz Street Oneonta, New York 13820
Rensselaer	John Banas [email protected] P: (518) 270-2860	Rensselaer County Career Center 1600 7th Ave. 4th Floor Troy, New York 12180
Schenectady	John Banas [email protected] P: (518) 270-2860	Schenectady Job Training Agency 797 Broadway Schenectady, New York 12305
Suffolk	Timothy Carew [email protected] P: (631) 853-6634	Suffolk County Department of Labor, Licensing & Consumer Affairs 725 Veterans Memorial Highway Hauppauge, New York 11788
Tioga	Randall Cook [email protected] P: (607) 778-6478	Tioga County Career Center 1062 State Route 38 Owego, New York 13827
Tompkins	Mary McLaughlin [email protected] (607) 272-7570 ext. 106	Tompkins Workforce New York Center Ithaca, Suite #241 171 East State Street Ithaca, NY 14850
Ulster	Troy Snyder [email protected] P: 845-340-3176	Ulster County Career Center Office: 521 Boices Lane Mail: 535 Boices Lane Kingston, NY 12401

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