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Welcome to ePolicyWorks!


ePolicyWorks is a new, collaborative approach to federal policymaking that leverages Web-based technology, stakeholder involvement and real-time information-sharing. Created in response to the President's call for a more open, transparent and participatory government, ePolicyWorks empowers national experts to shape policy and address specific barriers to employment faced by people with disabilities.

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 (ODEP), ePolicyWorks delivers on the Administration's pledge to work together and actively engage with the disability community on priority issues. Partners in this initiative include: In addition, 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.

ePolicyWorks Health Care

Given the nation's current focus on health care and the critical role it plays in achieving an inclusive workforce, ODEP unveiled ePolicyWorks Health Care. Its centerpiece is an online collaborative workspace where national experts and key stakeholders can leverage technology to transform how government works. This online platform incorporates many Web 2.0 features- tools to help federal partners develop policies and strategies that address employment, disability and health-care related issues.

Membership in ePolicyWorks Health Care is open to federal agency representatives and other policymakers from non-partisan, not-for-profit organizations involved in the development and support of national policies that examine the intersection among employment, disability and health care, and promote an increase in employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

  • For more information or to suggest a person or organization to join ePolicyWorks Health Care, please contact ePolicyWorksHealthCare@dol.gov.

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