Welcome back to Season 3 of PinPoint!

This issue of the magazine is focused on employment and its many different forms. We’re bringing information on the DSP workforce crisis, the state of the disability workforce, and the disbanding of sheltered workshops just to name a few.

Don't worry if that all sounds overwhelming, this is the perfect place to start. In this episode, GCDD's Executive Director D'Arcy Robb explains many of these issues at an introductory level for those who may be totally unfamiliar. And now is the best time to start getting educated, as there are large changes on the horizon that disability advocates and those in the community will want to know about.

The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD) is driven by its Five Year Plan (2017-2021) goals of education; employment; self-advocacy; Real Communities; and formal and informal supports. The Council, charged with creating systems change for individuals with developmental disabilities and family members, will work through various advocacy and capacity building activities to build a more interdependent, self-sufficient, and integrated and included disability community across Georgia.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2001GASCDD-03, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.