The APSE MO Employment Summit is a premier event dedicated to fostering dialogue, sharing best practices, and advancing the field of employment for individuals with disabilities in Missouri. This Summit provides training to employment providers, employment professionals, families, and individuals who believe that employment is the path to self-determination. This year at Summit we are happy to be offering a variety of presentations all with an emphasis on three tracks: Technology, Best Practices, and Transition Age.

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Our Key Note Presenters: 

   

Doug Crandell has worked for decades in employment and disability supports and is a subject matter expert related to job development within the arts, humanities, and entertainment.  He's an advocate for a sibling with disabilities. In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, he focuses on how the Disability Industrial Complex is often impenetrable, mired in deficit-thinking, and controlled by the lobbying of trade groups that do little for people with disabilities. Doug has published eight books with publishers including Penguin-Random House, Chicago Review Press, Virgin Books, and Cornell University Press. His essays on labor, mental health, and disability appear regularly in the SUN magazine https://www.thesunmagazine.org/contributors/doug-crandell He directs the training and technical assistance center known as www.advancingemployment.com and supports the work of www.tellthevaluedstory.com Additional information is available at: www.dougcrandell.com  and www.abolish14c.com

Barry Whaley, M.S. is a Project Director and Principal Investigator at the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University. His current projects are the Southeast ADA Center, The Council on Access and Mobility Technical Assistance Center Project, the Kentucky Supported Higher Education Project, and the Mid-Atlantic Youth and Self-Advocacy Project. For forty-four years he has worked toward equitable access for people with disabilities in our country and worldwide. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, Laws, and the Journal of Forensic Science & Addiction Research. His current research examines the impact of the intersectionality of race and disability, on three ADA-related issues: 1) employment, 2) access to digital technology, 3) long and short-term poverty. Mr. Whaley is qualified in federal district court to give expert testimony on applicable guidance and industry standards for accommodating people with disabilities in the workplace.

Closing Keynote speaker- Dominic McKinney