These accommodations can be in the workplace, or in getting to and from the workplace, or even a place to live. CRPs are in every city and town and understand how to serve the needs of their communities when others can not or will not. The Drucker Foundation serves as a home and showcase of the vitality of what he calls the Social Sector and other call the independent or freedom sector. CRPs have long understood the need for non-governmental solutions to society's problems. Federal and state funds have never been sufficient to do all that must be done and it now increasingly the entrepreneurial activities of the Social Sector that is filling the gap.
People sometime refer to CRPs as having both head and heart.
NISH wants to nurture both. WorkForce Development is for those who chosen a work life of personal contact and commitment to individuals with special needs and terrible barriers to employment. I once attended a training class for job development and job placement specialists. They had good hearts in abundance. Its intended audience are those that use the market place to bring in revenue in support of a social mission, as well as use real work and real jobs as the best means to contribute to the skill and professional development of real people.