>> Thank you, Lisa, for your help and what you're doing with the state of Missouri. Like Lisa said earlier, we met at the national meeting for CRC. She was mentioning the lead Institute. At that time I was state president and I walked up to her and said we want to be part of this. We want you to come into Missouri. And I believe in really partnership development. And so in order to make that happen, we had to bring in, of our 14 regions, all of our executive directors and our state to make sure what I was asking for, they were in support of. And I went immediately back to my local Workforce board and the mayor and said, we're going to create a disabilities committee. So we created that disabilities committee. And it became -- it was first only my board. And our EO officer. We were talking about how do we work with the company that we work with currently? And out of that came from board members, from companies the saying, we really don't know everything about it. We're trying to do this work, but maybe a conference? We were like, a conference? They were like, can you all put together -- it could just be a half-day -- the board members, which where the business sector -- largest employers of our state, which is our healthcare system, BJC, he said, I will share it. Along with Job Corps. We will put everything together. So we came up with this accommodation for success program. And then we opened it up not only to our region, but we opened it up to the two -- three closest regions to St. Louis. The St. Louis city, St. Louis County, Jeff Frank, and we also went over to Illinois to Madison County and St. Clair County and said we're going to have this task force. Can you all volunteer to put this one day conference -- this half-day conference on? We target employers because the number one issue was employers, HR people didn't know everything and they wanted to have a discussion. So we had breakout sessions. All this was done by committee that started in the local disabilities committee. And it got to be where the whole region -- the other four WIBs started saying how can we be a part of it?The breakout sessions
>> Thank you, Lisa, for your help and what you're doing with the state of Missouri. Like Lisa said earlier, we met at the national meeting for CRC. She was mentioning the lead Institute. At that time I was state president and I walked up to her and said we want to be part of this. We want you to come into Missouri. And I believe in really partnership development. And so in order to make that happen, we had to bring in, of our 14 regions, all of our executive directors and our state to make sure what I was asking for, they were in support of. And I went immediately back to my local Workforce board and the mayor and said, we're going to create a disabilities committee. So we created that disabilities committee. And it became -- it was first only my board. And our EO officer. We were talking about how do we work with the company that we work with currently? And out of that came from board members, from companies the saying, we really don't know everything about it. We're trying to do this work, but maybe a conference? We were like, a conference? They were like, can you all put together -- it could just be a half-day -- the board members, which where the business sector -- largest employers of our state, which is our healthcare system, BJC, he said, I will share it. Along with Job Corps. We will put everything together. So we came up with this accommodation for success program. And then we opened it up not only to our region, but we opened it up to the two -- three closest regions to St. Louis. The St. Louis city, St. Louis County, Jeff Frank, and we also went over to Illinois to Madison County and St. Clair County and said we're going to have this task force. Can you all volunteer to put this one day conference -- this half-day conference on? We target employers because the number one issue was employers, HR people didn't know everything and they wanted to have a discussion. So we had breakout sessions. All this was done by committee that started in the local disabilities committee. And it got to be where the whole region -- the other four WIBs started saying how can we be a part of it?The breakout sessions