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Welcome to ePolicyWorks!


ePolicyWorks is a collaborative, information-sharing initiative among national policymakers designed to address specific barriers to employment faced by people with disabilities. The goals of ePolicyWorks closely align with the guiding principles outlined in the President’s disability agenda – from strengthening access to and improving the quality of health care, to protecting civil rights and increasing opportunities for employment. Facilitating real-time coordination and communication, ePolicyWorks is an unprecedented effort to tackle today’s critical disability employment issues.

Increasing Access to Employment

ePolicyWorks exemplifies President Obama’s stated commitment to identifying and removing barriers to employment for people with disabilities. Through this effort multiple federal agencies will work together to ensure that Americans with disabilities have equal access to employment and critical employment-related supports such as health care, education, employment, transportation, housing and technology. The President’s commitment to addressing these issues – and to fostering an open government – empowers the members of ePolicyWorks to collectively contribute to the development of national policies and programs that advance America’s promise of opportunity for all.

Fostering Partnership, Collaboration & Open Government

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, ePolicyWorks delivers on the Administration’s pledge to work together and actively engage with the disability community on priority issues. The initiative also establishes a model for future national policy-building efforts. Partners in this initiative include the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Transportation; the Social Security Administration; and others. Furthermore, national experts representing critical stakeholders will be invited to join, reflecting the Administration’s commitment to open government, heightened transparency, collaboration and participation in the ongoing national dialogue on disability and employment-related issues.

Promoting Positive Change

Historically, participation in the workforce by people with disabilities has been significantly lower than those individuals’ without disabilities. The challenge of increasing employment rates has often come, not from an inability or unwillingness to work among people with disabilities, but their inadequate access to such necessities as education and training, housing, transportation, technology and health care. ePolicyWorks confronts this disparity by leveraging resources as well as encouraging coordination and integration across systems.

History demonstrates that achieving widespread change often necessitates modifying the environment, not the individual. Social, economic and political factors have dramatically impacted both businesses and individuals in many ways over recent years. Advances in education, science and technology, mass transit systems, and the workplace have improved our ability to communicate, travel and be productive at work. They also have led to greater employment opportunities for people with disabilities. However, much work remains to be done.

ePolicyWorks provides the framework for altering the disability employment landscape as America moves forward. Combining cutting-edge technology with expertise from the federal government and beyond, it has the power to promote positive, lasting change and fulfill America’s promise of equal employment opportunity for all citizens, including those with disabilities.

ePolicyWorks Health Care

The ePolicyWorks Health Care collaborative workspace is an online, limited-access forum where federal partners and other national policymakers can share information and ideas on how to reduce health care-related disincentives to employment and increase access to health care and mental health services and supports for people with disabilities. The workspace provides a framework for engaging ePolicyWorks Health Care stakeholders from a variety of vantage points and helps them work together to share and disseminate information in a coordinated manner.

Core features of this workspace are the Resource Library and Legislative Corner—repositories of articles, publications, legislation and other resources addressing the intersection among health care, disability and employment. Another key feature is the eWorkgroups function, which enables users to create their own online workplaces to collaborate on projects, share information, facilitate online discussions and more.

Membership to ePolicyWorks Health Care is open to federal agency representatives and other policymakers from organizations involved in the development and support of national policies that examine the intersection among health care, disability and employment, and promote an increase in employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

For more information, to suggest a person or organization to join ePolicyWorks Health Care or to sign up for weekly legislative and news updates, please contact ePolicyWorksHealthCare@dol.gov.

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