• Community Living and Employment Specialist
Email
mahoe001@umn.edu
Phone
+1 612-626-0429
Address
Masonic Institute on the Developing Brain
Rm 1-305B1c [map]
2025 E River Pkwy
MInneapolis, MN 55414

Danielle Mahoehney is an education program specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration. She provides training, technical assistance, and project coordination within the areas of community living and workforce development. She works with non-profit organizations and government agencies to advance competitive, integrated employment and community-based day support options for people with disabilities.

Before joining the ICI staff in 2020, Mahoehney served the organization as a consultant on employment-focused projects. She also has worked as an advocate for The Arc Minnesota and as a direct support professional and frontline supervisor. She earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.

“Early in my career I lived in an intentional community in Florida with people with and without developmental disabilities,” she said. “It not only sparked an interest in disability as a career but also helped form my priorities in life. While I was in Florida, there were major budget cuts and I saw up close how that directly impacted the people I lived with. I love working on employment issues because they are absolutely essential to full inclusion. When people with disabilities work in settings with people without disabilities, that’s when people really get to know each other and learn that everyone has something to share. If we don’t challenge people to explore what they are capable of and take some risks, it compromises the dignity of all of us.”

Projects

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Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)

Conducts a wide range of research, training, and technical assistance and dissemination projects related to community supports under its center grant and related project funding. The RTC-CL is …

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Implementing ES-Coach to Support Provider Capacity-Building and Development

Uses smartphone technology to reduce the gap between training and field-based implementation of best and evidence-based practice. ES-Coach is a web and smartphone-based tool that collects daily …

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Go MN!

The Go MN! project is led by MN DEED. The project addresses people with disabilities in or contemplating subminimum wage work settings and offers them opportunities to explore careers in transporta…

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Implementing ES-Coach to Support Provider Capacity Building and Development

ES-Coach is a web- and smartphone-based tool that collects daily data on supports and provides feedback to employment consultants, managers, and their teams in real time, helping them to reflect, …

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Training for Direct Support Workers Employed in Self-Directed Programs

This project provided training for more than 1,000 direct support workers (DSWs). The purpose of the training was to provide information on the following topics: 1) disability rights movement; 2) …

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Day Support Consulting

Provided specialized consultation on integrated day services and staff training for MRCI, Inc., an employment provider. ICI developed new tools for staff training to support increased community …

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Lewin HCBS Special Projects

Assists the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in accelerating its understanding of the challenges that states face related to the HCBS direct service workforce and with potential …
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Direct Support Workforce Solutions

Direct Support Workforce Solutions is a national consulting group addressing the workforce needs of organizations providing community-based supports for individuals with disabilities. Drawing on …

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Minnesota Employment, Training, and Technical Assistance Project (MN TAP) [Archived]

Funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, this project aimed to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. As part of the project, the Institute for Community Inclusion …

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Minnesota Transformation Initiative Technical Assistant Center (MTI)

ICI and the University of Massachusetts Boston are collaboratively designing, implementing, and evaluating the Minnesota Transformation Initiative Technical Assistance Center (MTI). MTI supports …

Products

How Did Employment Consultants Adjust and Innovate Services to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Background: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced an immediate change to the delivery of employment supports and services for jobseekers and workers with intellectual and developmental disabili…

Published: 2023