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TASH/APSE Collaborative Web TrainingWorking Life:Towards a Lifestyle of Employment for AllA Webinar Series on Customized EmploymentWinter 2008Co-sponsored by Institute on Community Inclusion (ICI) UMass-BostonGo no further than your workplace to take advantage of this exciting learning opportunity.TASH and APSE: The Network on Employment invite your participation in a collaborative webinar training on customized employment. Drawing from the best of supported employment, customized employment is an intensive approach to individualizing and supporting jobs, with strategies designed to meet the needs of the individual and the employer. Learn from those who are storming the country with these innovative and successful approaches to supported employment. This series is designed for individuals who prefer to learn from the comfort of their own workplace, but wish to stay abreast of the best thinking in the nation on employment for people with disabilities. APSE and TASH, both well known for high quality training, have joined forces to offer this series of web based trainings to front line workers, administrators, management staff, consumers and family members who want to learn about best disability employment practices. Each session includes a lecture and interactive time to ensure the opportunity to ask questions and dialogue with the presenter. Registrants receive visuals via e-mail prior to the session and have access to the materials and the trainer in a live 1 hour webcast. Administrators and Managers !These sessions provides a rare opportunity for your agencies to economically purchase training for your entire staff. Register your agency and make the power point materials and teleconference available to your as many staff members as you like at one site, for the cost of a single registration. SCHEDULETASH/APSE WEBINAR SERIES ON CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYMENT (Session descriptions, fees and registration form attached) Date Trainers TopicJanuary 28, 2008Mike Callahan, Marc Gold & Associates, Employment for All Challenges & Opportunities in Expanding Integrated EmploymentFebruary 4, 2008Ellen CondonRural Institute, University of Montana Discovery and ProfilesFebrury 11, 2008Norciva SchumbertMarc Gold & Associates, Employment for All The Customized Planning Meeting &Development of a Representational PortfolioFebruary 25, 2008Cary GriffinGriffin-Hammis AssociatesCorey SmithVIA of Lehigh ValleyInterest-Based Negotiationfor Customized Employment For more information, contact: Barb Trader TASH - 202-263-5601 - Celane McWhorter APSE 804-278-9187 TASH/APSE:THE NETWORK ON EMPLOYMENT WEBINAR CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYMENT SERIESJanuary 28 February 25, 2008Registration FormStep 1. Complete the following:NAME: _Check one: o - agency o - individual ADDRESS: _TELEPHONE NUMBER: _FAX NUMBER: _E-MAIL: _Step 2. Select session/s you are registering for:The whole package . . .all four sessions, or: o Jan. 28, 2008Challenges & Opportunities Mike Callahano Feb. 4, 2008 Discovery & ProfilesEllen Condono Feb. 11, 2008Customized Planning/Representational PortfolioNorciva Schumberto Feb. 25, 2008Interest-based Negotiation Cary Griffin/Corey SmithStep 3. Calculate your fees: TASH and APSE Members Only:One session $125.00 per siteEntire Package (4 sessions) $450.00 per site Non-membersIndividual session $150.00 per siteEntire Package (4 sessions) $550.00 per siteUnlimited participation allowed per site* $100.00 for each additional site added by one agency50% Discount for Self-Advocates and Family MembersTOTAL DUE: _Payment due in full before each session TASH/APSE Collaborative TrainingWorking Life:Towards a Lifestyle of Employment for AllA Webinar Series on Customized EmploymentWinter 2008Sponsored by:Institute on Community Inclusion (ICI) UMass-BostonCo-Conveners John Butterworth and Mike CallahanSession 1: Challenges & Opportunities in Expanding Integrated EmploymentJanuary 28, 2008Just do it: Lessons learned from 20 years of employment data John Butterworth, Institute for Community Inclusion, UMass BostonAn overview of Customized Employment Mike Callahan, Marc Gold & Associates/Employment for AllThis session will review the state of the states in employment, frame opportunities and challenges at the system and individual levels, and provide an overview of Customized Employment, a strategy that provides persons with disabilities, and indeed other applicants with significant barriers to employment, with an alternative to traditional, competitive jobs. Just do it: Over 20 years of employment data and the experiences of states and community providers that have been successful in expanding employment opportunities provide us with both the challenge to do better. This part of the session will review our progress and discuss lessons learned about organizational and systems strategy and policy that lead to better employment outcomes. Customized employment: According to a new definition used by the US Department of Labor, Customized Employment refers to:Individualizing the employment relationship between employees and employers in ways that meet the needs of both. It is based on an individualized determination of the strengths, needs, and interests of the person with a disability, and is also designed to meet the specific needs of the employer. (Federal Register, June 26, 2002, Vol. 67. No. 123 pp 43154 -43149)Customized Employment relies on a negotiated rather than competitive approach to employers; therefore job developers must be available to assist applicants to develop personalized proposals for employers. This approach to employment offers the promise of welcoming all persons with disabilities who wish to work into the generic employment system and into a job that fits their needs. It also defines the critical role of vocational rehabilitation services to support both the individual with a disability and the generic system to make employment a viable option for persons once thought to be unemployable.Session 2: Discovery and Profiles February 4, 2008Ellen Condon, Rural Institute, University of Montana This session focuses on two important components of Customized Employment: Discovery and Profiles. The discovery strategy uses an examination of the job seekers life as a substitute to comparison-based testing procedures in that it utilizes already-existing information rather than information developed through formal assessment methods. Discovery is used as a guide for customizing an employment relationship for an applicant with an employer. This process takes into account the applicants entire life experiences rather than single instances of performance. The discovery process begins with a provider representative who meets with the applicant and family at the home of the applicant. These visits, along with other discovery activities, give the individual and family, as appropriate, information about their powerful roles in the process and allow the provider to compile basic information that is necessary to begin the process.A comprehensive narrative called the profile that describes the individual in a narrative manner is then developed. For students, this document becomes a work in progress during the transition years of the students school career passed on from teacher to teacher until graduation. For adults, the descriptive document provides information vital to planning and can substitute for traditional, comparative vocational assessment procedures. In addition to sample profile formats for a written narrative, alternative format for capturing discovered information will be offered.Session 3: The Customized Planning Meeting and Development of a Representational PortfolioFebruary 11, 2008Norciva Shumpert, Marc Gold & Associates/Employment for AllThis session builds from Sessions 1 & 2, moving into customized job planning and the development of individualized portfolios. A Customized Planning Meeting is held with the applicant, family, friends, advocates, the provider, VR counselors and others chosen by the applicant. This planning meeting adheres to the values associated with the best of person-directed, person-centered values. The applicant (with support from family or others, as necessary) holds “trumps” during the meeting and decides the information that will be included in the plan. The meeting describes a customized job development plan in the form of a blueprint that includes:*Generally speaking, “what works and what doesnt work” for the applicant* The applicants preferences, contributions, and conditions for employment;* The types of job tasks the applicant feels should comprise the job,* Specific employment sites where work could be developed for the applicant; and*Employment leads & relationships with possible employers.This approach also utilizes a “presentation portfolio” as a tool for job developers to use to introduce both the general idea of persons with significant disabilities making contributions to employers and as a personalized, visual resume that represents the best of the applicant with a disability. The portfolio is a customized visual presentation on behalf of a person that will assist either the job developer o