If anyone is interested in any of the remaining training sessions
offered through APSE, let me know. If we get enough interest we can
look into getting a common location(s) for the training. We can
project the Powerpoint on a screen and use a speaker phone for the
training. We have done this in the past and it works quite well.
Let me know of your interest.
Thanks,
Bryan
APSE NETWORK ON EMPLOYMENT
INSTITUTE
APSE TELETRAINING SERIES, FALL,
2006
SESSION
DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOS
Session 1: Foundations of
Supported Employment - September 12, 2006 - Bob
Niemiec
What is Supported
Employment? What are the values, guiding principles and features that
influence this approach to working with people who have significant
disabilities? How and why did it begin? In this session, you will learn
about the evolution of supported employment. You will discover the critical
factors that lead to the development of SE and how it differs from other,
more traditional approaches to employment of people with significant
disabilities. You will be exposed to the underlying values and principles
that guide organizations and people in the quest to facilitate supported
employment in their communities. You will learn about the critical roles
that employment specialists play in the successful employment of people with
disabilities in community businesses. You will also hear about some of the
best practices in Supported Employment as well as in school-to-work and
community living transitions. Finally, there will be a brief discussion
about how organizations and states have managed to fund supported employment
services.
Bob Niemiec is
an internationally known trainer and consultant. Bob has a long history of
providing high quality training and consultation services to businesses,
organizations and individuals throughout the United States and Canada. He is
an accomplished coach, trainer, strategic planner and organizational
consultant. A graduate of Indiana University, Bob has been in the field of
employment for persons with disabilities for twenty-two years. He has
performed at virtually every level within a human service organization, from
direct service to executive director. Bob is currently the Director of
Employment and Community Supports for Community Involvement Programs in
Bloomington, Minnesota. Bob is an accomplished coach, trainer, consultant,
and public speaker. Bob is a Past-President of APSE, a founding member and
Past-President of Minnesota APSE, Immediate Past-President of the APSE
Foundation, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of
Vocational Rehabilitation. Bob also coordinates SE 101 and the APSE
Tele-Training Series.
Session 2: Person-Centered
Career Planning - September 26, 2006 - Rob Hoffman
This section of SE 101 will provide in-depth
information and training on person-centered career planning, with emphasis
on best practices in this most important area. Key topics will include the
following:
…
Introduction to Person-Centered Career Planning
… Moving from a Deficiency towards Capacity view of
persons with disabilities
…
Mobilizing and implementing career planning teams that
work
… Developing Career
Profiles
… Creating individual Employment
Support Plans that get results
…
Strategies & tactics for building employment connections and effectively
tapping personal networks
Rob
Hoffman is the Project Manager for
Region VII's CRP-RCEP with the University of Missouri-Columbia and is
responsible for the development and delivery of training and technical
assistance on employment services and business partnership strategies. Prior
to coming to Missouri, he was the Executive Director of the Wyoming Business
Leadership Network, a network of business partnership initiatives in various
communities throughout the state. He has trained and consulted nationally on
business partnership strategies and continues his efforts to support
communities in Missouri to develop these initiatives. Rob is also the owner
of Hoffman Promotionals, a company that provides marketing and promotional
items for businesses, schools and organizations.
Session 3: Job Development - October 10, 2006 -
Tyler Paris and Joe Lewis
Start your own job development revolution. This
session teaches the basic, yet critical, job development skills necessary
for successful Supported Employment Professionals. Discover a potent arsenal
of effective skills no job developer should be without. By using a
combination of consultative sales (the customer helps you make the sale) and
relationship sales (knowledge, trust and respect are the foundation for the
sale) you can customize an irresistible approach to business. These crucial
skills include: features, advantages and benefits; networking, prospecting,
the art of questioning, and overcoming objections. Spend 90 minutes to
become the job development sensation you've always dreamed
about.
Tyler Paris. Come saddled up and ready to ride.
Tyler's varied career has fashioned a unique perspective on employment for
people with disabilities, job development, Social Security benefits and
supported employment management. His experiences and creative spirit
produces a training style which is concise, easily followed, worthwhile and
fun. Tyler's previous experience includes insurance agent, radio
advertisement salesperson, security guard, hod carrier, low income
weatherization project director, self-employed bicycle repair shop owner,
consultant and jeweler. He received B.S. and M.P.A. degrees from the
University of Wyoming and is a graduate of Stewarts International School for
Jewelers.
Joe Lewis brings more than 25 years experience in
the field of employment for people with disabilities to his position at
CTAT. Joe has worked as a vocational counselor and program director for some
fine community-based organizations such as the Center for People with
Disabilities, EmployAbility, Inc., Colorado Easter Seals, and most recently,
Employment Link. He also has more than 12 years experience with the State of
Colorado, serving as a valuable link between state government and
applicants/employees with disabilities. Joe has been a member of the
Colorado Workplace Equity Coalition, has chaired a successful annual job
fair for people with disabilities in Denver, and has conducted numerous
trainings in areas such as practical applications of the ADA in the
workplace.
Session 4: Systematic Instruction - October
24, 2006 - Dan Steere
Supported employment professionals need to be
excellent instructors who can help individuals with disabilities master
complex work and work-related activities. This session will introduce
participants to essential strategies used in systematic instruction.
Particular emphasis will be placed on using effective prompting, error
correction and motivation strategies, and on approaches to fading the
intensity of instruction. Participants will leave this session with the
skills to develop comprehensive instructional plans for supported
employees.
Dan Steere, Ph.D., has worked in the field of
special education and rehabilitation since 1973. He has worked as a special
education teacher, a manager of a community residence, a consultant to
schools and rehabilitation agencies, and as a university professor at two
universities (Montana State University, Billings and East Stroudsburg
University of Pennsylvania). In his current position at East Stroudsburg
University, Dan teaches courses in special education and in rehabilitation.
Dan has co-authored over twenty five journal articles and book chapters,
many on topics related to the employment of people with disabilities,
including a text on the topic of supported employment. He has served on the
editorial board of the journal, Career Development for Exceptional
Individuals, and as a guest editor of the Journal of Vocational
Rehabilitation. Dan is a past president of the Vocational Rehabilitation
Division of the American Association on Mental Retardation. His professional
interests include supported employment and transition from school to
adulthood.
Session 5:
Supporting "Yeah, But" People on the Job - November 14, 2006 - Bob
Niemiec
Many
organizations struggle with the challenge of providing employment supports
to people who exhibit challenging behavior, have poor social skills, and
unusual methods of communication. These people are often referred to as
being "behavior problems." This workshop is about common sense strategies
and concepts for facilitating supported employment for people who experience
these situations.
Session 6: Facilitating Ongoing Supports - November 28,
2006 - Jon Alexander & Becky Brink
What constitutes effective on-going supports in
supported employment? Finding a job is just the beginning. Once the employee
has learned the job either through natural means or with the assistance of
an employment specialist/consultant, there must be a planned effort to
support the individual and the employer. Among the items to be discussed in
this section include nurturing the ongoing relationship between the
employer and the employee, helping the employee and his/her family and
supports navigate the world of Social Security, Medicaid, and financial
planning, to name but a few. You will leave with tools and ideas to provide
superior ongoing support to help people maintain their jobs and improve
their economic self reliance.
Jon Alexander is the Director of Operations of Kaposia, inc in St.
Paul, MN. He directs the delivery of services for over 250 people with
disabilities and other challenges. Throughout his career, Alexander has been
a leader in the creation and implementation of innovative programs and
methodology to promote competitive, integrated employment. These programs
were some of the first to try the use of natural job supports for people
with significant barriers to employment.
Session 8: The
Ever-Changing World of Supported Employment and its Future - December
12, 2006 - tbd
The concept of
supported employment has proven to be a viable option for many individuals
with high support needs. At the same time, it has also created a good deal
of tension in the education and rehabilitation service system. The practice
of supported employment has caused the education and rehabilitation service
system to change the way of business, specifically, its services,
organizational structure, job descriptions, supervision, and funding. It is
these changes that cause the excitement, challenges and tensions within
organizations. This presentation will discuss the impact of
community-based services, specifically supported employment on the
organization and management of human service programs. It will focus on
factors and strategies that can minimize resistance to change that
ultimately impact the real and meaningful jobs for people with
disabilities.
--
Bryan Dague, Ed.D.
University of Vermont
Center on Disability
& Community Inclusion
Mann Hall, 3rd Floor
208 Colchester
Ave.
Burlington, VT 05405-1757
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