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The LADSE Employer Advisory Board...
Building the Future Now!

Terri Lee           Steve Pleimling

Co-Chair                 Co-Chair

A note from the LADSE Employer Advisory Board:

Since 1993, the LADSE Employer Advisory Board has guided the development of programs and services to the Vocational Alliance. Over the years this partnership has built a network of business and educational opportunities for students with disabilities within the LADSE districts.

We are a career cluster diverse board, meaning that we come from a variety of industries. We welcome and encourage members from the business community to join us on the Employer Advisory Board. From a business perspective......

Members can self nominate or be nominated through the Vocational Alliance network of school work programs. Our goal is to have members who represent each of the 9 categories of career clusters. A member is asked to make a commitment for a minimum of one year.

The purpose of the Advisory Board is to:

• Provide a forum for an exchange of views between the business community and the LADSE sponsored vocational education programs
• Provide guidance through specific board projects which relate to vocational growth of students, expansion of transitional services to students and their families and/or the development of new opportunities within the existing programs and new programming

A sample menu of the programs and projects of the Employer Advisory Board:

• Grant program on Transition and Students with Autism
• Partnering with the West Suburban Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation on the development of the EmployAlliance network of job development
• PWI grant initiative on the Business Approach to the Social Integration and Communication (BASIC)
• Development of an entrepreneurial document shredding program, ShredderWorks
• Networking projects with the Business Education Council of the West Suburban Chamber of Commerce and Industry such as the Computer Drive, Career Days, Job Shadowing and the Career Fairs, Customer Service Training Program development
• Ongoing advisory to initiatives of the LADSE Vocational Alliance such as the development of the Career Academy
• Grant project development of the PathWays to Self Advocacy Project
• Development of marketing tools and strategies
• Development of materials and trainings on the education of employers and community members on disability etiquette, It's Your Dime project

Who to contact for application or more information:

Click here to download the Employer Advisory Board Brochure