CCEPD Healthcare Employer Stakeholder Input |
Purpose of Survey
The California Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities is focusing our efforts this year on the health care industry. According to the Center for Health Workforce Studies, between 2010 and 2020 the health care industry in the U.S. is projected to add over 4.2 million jobs. California faces the challenge of supplying the number of qualified, skilled health care workers needed to meet the growing employer demand.
Workers with disabilities represent an untapped resource in meeting this growing employer demand. While skilled health care workers with disabilities are an asset in improving health status and quality care for all (particularly given their lived experience), they are often viewed solely as the recipients or consumers of health care and rarely as the health care provider. As such, people with disabilities currently make up only 3.7% of the workforce in California’s health care and social assistance industry (Employment Development Department, Labor Market Information Division, 2012).
As the statewide body charged with advising the California Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor and Workforce Development on all issues related to the employment of people with disabilities, one of the Committee’s objectives this year is to learn from employers in the health care industry about the barriers to, and best practices in, employing workers with disabilities. Information gathered from this survey will assist the Committee in the development of employment initiatives and prioritization of policy recommendations.
This survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. We would like you to respond to this survey by Friday, November 15 but will accept responses until April 30, 2014. If you have any questions or additional feedback, please contact: CCEPD@dor.ca.gov. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey!
Workers with disabilities represent an untapped resource in meeting this growing employer demand. While skilled health care workers with disabilities are an asset in improving health status and quality care for all (particularly given their lived experience), they are often viewed solely as the recipients or consumers of health care and rarely as the health care provider. As such, people with disabilities currently make up only 3.7% of the workforce in California’s health care and social assistance industry (Employment Development Department, Labor Market Information Division, 2012).
As the statewide body charged with advising the California Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor and Workforce Development on all issues related to the employment of people with disabilities, one of the Committee’s objectives this year is to learn from employers in the health care industry about the barriers to, and best practices in, employing workers with disabilities. Information gathered from this survey will assist the Committee in the development of employment initiatives and prioritization of policy recommendations.
This survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. We would like you to respond to this survey by Friday, November 15 but will accept responses until April 30, 2014. If you have any questions or additional feedback, please contact: CCEPD@dor.ca.gov. Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey!