Opportunity of Interest: IPAS Survey

Over the past year, Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS) has been conducting a survey project regarding individuals employed in settings that pay commensurate wages under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  As a part of this effort, an online survey has been developed to compliment information gained from on-site interviews.

For more information, please see the message from IPAS below.
  

To Whom It May Concern:

Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services (IPAS) is Indiana's Protection and Advocacy system (P&A). Each state’s P&A is part of a federally mandated system with the authority and obligation to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities, mental illness and/or other disabilities. Since 1974, we have visited and surveyed a multitude of facilities across the state to monitor the rights and safety of individuals with disabilities and to provide information to those individuals about our organization.

In December, 2013, IPAS launched a project to survey facility-based work centers here in Indiana to ensure that employees with disabilities working in sheltered workshop settings in Indiana under Section 14c of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 had access to assistive technology, reasonable accommodations, a safe work environment, choice in work that they performed and the opportunity to move in to community-based employment, if they so desired.

Please complete the survey, available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C66D65H

We may also be in contact with you at a later date to discuss in more detail, your rehabilitation program and its goals.

It is IPAS’s belief that people with differing abilities can be productive, valuable citizens. It is our goal to ensure that these individuals are given an opportunity to reach their full potential and have a choice in how to get there.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 1-812-343-4765 or toll free at 1-800-622-4845, ext. 469 or by email. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.

Sincerely,

Catharine M. Wingard
Assistant Director of Client Services
Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services 
cwingard@ipas.in.gov 
www.in.gov/IPAS

IPAS will share the results of this survey with INARF and participants when the project is complete. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.