MHANJ’s Career Connection Employment Resource Institute (CCERI) PresentsReentry and EmploymentA Professional Development

MHANJ’s Career Connection Employment Resource Institute (CCERI) Presents Reentry and EmploymentA Professional Development Workshop

Friday, November 15, 2019 – 10:30 am-2:30pmElizabeth Public Library, 4th floor Auditorium11 South Broad StreetElizabeth, NJ 07202

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Service Providers will learn more about Disability rights, Expungement, and Reentry in New Jersey.

10:30 am-12 pm – Disability Rights and Employment
In this workshop, participants will identify and discuss important information that affects people living with mental illness and their employment rights as persons with a disability. Participants will gain an understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, particularly essential job functions, reasonable accommodations, and job applications (including New Jersey’s “ban the box” restrictions). General employment rights and advocacy resources will be shared.

Trainer – Joe Young is the former Executive Director of Disability Rights New Jersey. Joe represented people with disabilities exclusively since 1979, when he joined the Community Health Law Project. He also served as Deputy Director of the Division Advocacy for the Developmentally Disabled in the Department of the Public Advocate. Joe received his law degree from Rutgers-Newark Law School. He has appeared in the administrative, trial, and appellate courts, including the New Jersey Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

1 pm-2:30 pm: Information and Updates on New Jersey’s Expungement Law
This overview of New Jersey’s expungement law will explain what records may be eligible for expungement as well as the documents used to determine eligibility. Participants will learn how to obtain a criminal case history (CCH) and receive detailed information on the Opportunity to Compete Act (also known as “Ban the Box”). Information on options available for legal assistance and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice (VLJ) client services on reentry will be shared as well as resources for those who do not qualify for expungement.

Trainer – Karen Robinson is a Staff Attorney for Volunteer Lawyers for Justice (VLJ) and coordinates VLJ’s efforts for Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe) and the Trafficking Victims’ Legal Assistance Program. Karen currently is a member of the Essex Vicinage Advisory Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement and the New Jersey State Bar Association Karen is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Rhetoric and received her law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law.

Lunch is on your own

No cost to participate

CRC credits pending
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