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Record Group Number: 000100
Series/Collection Number: .S 1695
Creator: Florida Governor's Alliance for Employment of Disabled Citizens
Title, Dates: Audio cassette recordings of meetings and other events, 1988-1997.
Amount: 73.00 item
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological by date of meeting or event, with undated or incompletely dated tapes at the end of the series.  There are some gaps where tapes are missing.
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Biographical/Historical:     The Florida Governor's Alliance for Employment of Disabled Citizens (known as the Florida Governor's Alliance, or FGA) was created by Executive Order 86-183 in October 1986 in response to the large percentage of disabled persons who wanted to work but could not find employment.  According to its first annual report, the FGA was to "explore the situation of employment forpersons with disabilities and to make recommendations on policy directions to address identifiable problems."  The FGA also served as Florida's state liaison to the President's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities, established in 1947.
    Appointed in October 1986, the Governor's Alliance Board of 24 members first met in December 1986 and began carrying out activities to meet the goals of improved efficiency of disabled employment service delivery through increased coordination of planning and delivery of local programs; expansion of work opportunities; increased awareness in the disabled community of the requirements of and opportunities for work; increased awareness in the public and private sectors of the needs of the disabled for work and of the potential contributions of disabled citizens; and introduction of models for service delivery of employment and training services to the disabled which would provide significant gains in results, or significant efficiencies in process if implemented in the existing delivery systems.
    The Board was administered and operated by funding through the Job Partnership Training Act under a contractual arrangement with the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security.  To support Board activities, the Florida Alliance for Employment of the Handicapped Inc., a private, non-profit corporation which provided the original model for FGA activity in Florida, accepted responsibility for administration of the FGA Board.  The FGA also is known by the names of: Florida Endowment for Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Able Trust.

Summary:     This series consists of cassette tapes created by the Florida Governor's Alliance to document it's meetings and other activities.  The tapes are primarily of the FGA Board meetings and Executive Board meetings, although there are some tapes for a variety of special meetings, seminars, and events dealing with the employment of the disabled.  Unfortunately, not all tapes are labeled and even tapes that are labeled may not be labeled correctly. Also, several tapes appear to be blank.
    The minutes for the FGA Board and FGA Executive Board are contained in Series 1690.  The paper records are somewhat better organized.
Finding Aids: Item listing available.
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Associated Materials: Series 1690, Subject and Correspondence Files, contains minutes of FGA Board and Executive Board meetings of which recordings are included in this series.
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Subject Access Fields: People with disabilities Employment Florida.
People with disabilities Florida.
People with disabilities Employment  --Law and legislation Florida.
People with disabilities Employment  --Law and legislation United States.
Handicapped Employment Florida
Handicapped Florida
Handicapped Employment --Law and legislation Florida
Handicapped Employment --Law and legislation United States
Audio cassettes. aat
Audio tapes. aat
Added Entries Able Trust.
Florida Endowment for Vocational Rehabilitation.