Connecticut

The Connecticut team plans to develop strategic actions that leverage the services of multiple government agencies to build a more integrated continuum of career development supports for adults with disabilities, as well as create stronger alliances with workforce and employer needs. The state will focus specific high-growth, industry-related building efforts in southwestern Connecticut through The Workplace Inc., the state's southwest regional Workforce Investment Board.

Maryland

The team from Maryland will develop strategic actions that result in stronger coordination with the state's economic development, workforce development, and disability employment systems to better integrate training and preparation programs for adults with disabilities. The state will focus on identifying and linking job seekers with disabilities to anticipated job growth in and around Prince George's, Harford, and Anne Arundel counties as a result of military base expansion plans.

Minnesota

The Minnesota team will build on important recent work taking place in the state to integrate adults with disabilities into the design and implementation of state economic growth activities. Minnesota will look to build on existing models that work to move youth with disabilities into jobs in the manufacturing sector by adapting these models to adults, and expanding the model to other high-growth sectors in the state.