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Application for Online Training: Employment Consulting and Workplace Support

Description:

This online mini-course teaches employment specialists, job coaches, and other employment staff to assist employees with disabilities to succeed in community jobs. Participants learn to identify and enlist natural company resources for training and support, to adopt a consultant approach, and to effectively include an employee in the culture of the workplace. The course is designed for staff who provide direct placement, training, or follow-up services to individuals in supported or competitive employment. Topics include:

• How to adopt a consultant approach at a business
• Analyzing workplace cultures for social inclusion
• Using employer and coworker training resources
• Handling difficult workplace support issues

The course will be conducted online for a four-week period beginning Monday, February 27, 2012. Participants log into the training each week at any time from anywhere with access to the internet, and work at their own pace. Completion of each week’s module takes about 5 hours. Participants receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Each week’s instructional module will feature a “mini-lecture” with state-of-the-art approaches to employment support, animated and filmed video scenarios showing the strategies in use, and guided discussion in small groups with other participants and with the instructors. Participation includes a fieldwork component following the workshop to apply the strategies learned and evaluate their effectiveness.

Dates:
Week 1: Feb. 27 - Mar. 2, 2012
Week 2: Mar. 5 - 9, 2012
Week 3: Mar. 12-16, 2012
Week 4: Mar. 19 - 23, 2012

A registration fee of $35.00 is required at the time of application; if you are not accepted your fee will be refunded. The remaining cost of instruction is subsidized by a grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. To allow for individualized instruction, enrollment is limited to 40 participants. To fulfill the goals of the grant, participation includes a fieldwork component, involving implementing the strategies learned with a consumer following the training, and completing brief data forms. Login and other instructions will be provided upon acceptance.

Application deadline: February 17, 2012
Acceptance notification: February 20, 2012

This workshop series is supported by Grant # H133G100176 - Development of an Employment Consultation Staff Training Model for Workplace Inclusion - from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Presenter(s): David Hagner, Ph.D. and Bryan Dague, Ph.D.

David Hagner, Ph.D. is Research Professor with the UNH Institute on Disability. He has over 25 years experience in training, direct service, and research related to vocational rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities and is the author of several books and articles related to workplace inclusion and workplace culture.

Bryan Dague, Ph.D. is a Research Associate at the University of Vermont Center on Disability and Community Inclusion. He has directed staff in-service training and technical assistance to supported employment programs throughout the state of Vermont for the past 20 years, and co-authored a book on developing natural supports in the workplace.