Alliance for Full Participation

AFP has 40 teams in some stage of formation.  Read about State Team Activities or visit the State Team Directory Page for contacts in your state.

Several of the state teams are using Employment First initiatives to promote AFP, others are incorporating the AFP mission and employment challenge as part of a Medicaid Grant project, still others are working within their APSE chapters or State DD Councils, or with other coalitions that have worked to promote employment within their states.

State teams are using AFP to call attention to improving competitive and inclusive employment for people with developmental disabilities. 

AFP provides state teams with resources to help:

• assess their current employment practices
• determine areas that they would like to focus on for improvement, and
• create an action plan for achieving these goals.

State Teams are composed of representatives within the developmental disabilities community and include the voices of individuals with developmental disabilities, employers, families, policy makers, providers, researchers and community builders. State Teams are a vehicle to build state-wide coalitions representing all key stakeholders that will provide input, feedback and direction to the national summit organization process. Our expectation is that state teams will bring the Summit’s action agenda back to their communities so that the vision and outcomes agreed upon in Washington can become a reality nationwide.

See the State Team Directory on the menu to:

• Locate your state team
• Access its employment resources
• Read more about State Teams' Priorities and Action Plans.

We are seeking leadership of state teams in the following states:  Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico, Hawaii, Louisiana,  West Virginia, Nevada, Idaho and South Carolina.