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Supporting Cross-System Collaboration in American Job Centers
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The LEAD Center’s “Cross-System Collaboration: Supporting Accessibility in American Job Centers” brief highlights how cross-system collaboration can strengthen accessibility in American Job Centers (AJCs) through partnerships among workforce, vocational rehabilitation, disability, and community organizations.
The brief features promising practices from Missouri and Virginia and highlights strategies for improving coordination, embedding accessibility into workforce systems, and advancing employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
The brief explores:
- Cross-system collaboration: Joint planning, shared accountability, and active engagement among workforce partners.
- Missouri and Virginia: Examples of Missouri’s NEXUS collaborative model and Virginia’s cross-agency Accessibility Taskforce.
- Lessons learned: Shared responsibility, leadership commitment, structured training and follow-up, community partnerships, and AJC certification.
- Moving forward: Strategies for convening partners, identifying shared customers and priorities, establishing formal partnership agreements, evaluating data, and developing shared training and accountability strategies.
Visit the LEAD Center to access the brief and explore strategies for supporting accessibility in American Job Centers.
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One Stop/American Job Centers
Collaboration
Integrated Programs/Services
Partnerships - General
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- Resource Publication Date: 2026
- Posted by: Damon Jones
- Posted in: Disability and Employment