DMCS course author and presenter
Integrated Disability and Absence Management
DisAbility Solutions LLC
Azucena wrote the Disability Management Compliance Specialist course and presents every lesson in it. She has worked in integrated disability and absence management since the mid-1990s.
Azucena developed and presents DMCS, a six-lesson micro-credential on California and federal disability and leave compliance. She also presents IEA’s disability and leave webinar series. The case studies she teaches are cases she ran.
Azucena designs and administers integrated disability and absence management programs. She has built and run those programs for major public agencies including the City of Oakland, BART, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the County of Orange. She is not an attorney, and her training is compliance practice rather than legal advice.
DMCS runs six sessions covering federal and California disability law, the interactive process from trigger to meeting, medical leave as a reasonable accommodation, evaluating restrictions against essential job functions, running an interactive process meeting, and what changes when a restriction becomes permanent.
Azucena presents IEA’s disability and leave webinar series. Every session she has recorded is below.
CPDM, Certified Professional in Disability Management. CLMS, Certified Leave Management Specialist. Working in integrated disability and absence management since the mid-1990s.
DMCS is a California-focused micro-credential in disability and leave compliance: six lessons, 13.25 hours of SHRM and HRCI recertification credit, and 6 hours toward CPDM renewal. $349, self-paced, no class dates.
