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One Day Training, "Choosing Community One Person at a Time", Supported Employment as an Option |
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One Day Training
“Choosing Community One Person at a Time”---Supported Employment as an Option
Supported Employment is a well defined approach to supporting people with high support needs in community employment. Yet national data shows only 22% of individuals receiving day supports from state mental retardation or developmental disability (MR/DD) agencies participate in integrated employment. For other disability populations, the rate is equally dismal. Many reasons are attributed to the lack of employment outcomes. These include no transportation, fear of losing SSA benefits, loss of Waiver support, parents and/or guardian’s resistance to employment, and others. To address this critical concern in our state, the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Alabama APSE will sponsor workshops across the state that will focus on issues that are vital to building new supported employment services and to increasing the quality of existing services.
Specifically, these workshops will address:
- What does “good” supported employment look like?
- How do I continue best practices when our funding does not support it?
- What partnerships are needed for positive quality outcomes?
- How do our services, values, and mission impact our community?
- Are we poised with the right people and structure to deliver what we promise?
- Who should go to work and how do we make it happen?
- How do we provide individualized services (one-person-at-a-time) when we have so many people to support?
In this workshop you will:
- Identify essential components of successful Supported Employment
- Learn how to maintain your program integrity in light of funding challenges
- Identify and evaluate your stakeholders and partnerships
- Discover how your organizational values influence community employment
- Understand the required competencies of your Supported Employment professionals and program leaders
- Discern real solutions to values conflicts within your organization, and between individuals and families
- Evaluate your employment program design and outcomes
The Trainer: Patty Cassidy, M.Ed. is Employment and Community Coordinator /Public Service Assistant Faculty at the Institute on Human Development and Disability, University of Georgia. Her experience in supported employment spans over 22 years to include: Project Coordinator for Jobs For All, a five year federally funded Customized Employment project; 15+ years directing supported employment agencies and programs; designer and instructor of two supported employment certificate programs; Disability Navigator in federally funded project at One-Stop Career Center; Coordinator of School-to-Work Alliance Program; and national consultant, trainer, and speaker on supported and customized employment. She received her Masters Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Training Locations:
- February 4, 2009 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Mobile
- Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services Office
- 2419 Gordon Smith DriveMobile, AL 36617
- Phone: 251-479-8611
- February 5, 2009
- 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Montgomery
- AIDT
- One Technology Court Montgomery, Alabama 36116-3200
- Phone: (334) 242-4158
- February 18, 2009
- 9:00a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Huntsville
- Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services Office
- 3000 Johnson Road, SW, Huntsville, AL 35805-5847
- Phone: 256-650-1700
- February 19, 2009
- 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Birmingham
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church
- 2701 Sydney Drive, Birmingham, AL 35211
Please email your intent to attend one of these workshops to Byron White at
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or Beth Hanks at
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. Please request any special accommodations at least 1 month in advance. Pre-registration isn’t required but helpful in planning logistics for the training. You may also register by telephone or obtain additional information by contacting Byron White at 334-353-7713. Please include your name and the number of individuals attending from your agency/facility in your email.
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