Webinars and Resources
Provider Transformation Series - Center for Human Services
Presenters: Ann Graff and Kimberly Anderson
This video series provides information on how providers are transforming in order to come into compliance with the HCBS Settings Rule. This webinar highlights the efforts made by the Center for Human Services based out of Sedalia, Missouri.
The Center for Human Services provides services and supports in four distinct areas: Family and Child Development, Employment Services, Community Living, and Service Coordination.
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Transformation Series - Work Activity Center
Presenters: Kathryn McConaughy, Cassidy Thomas, and Brian Hart
This video series provides information on how providers in Utah are transforming in order to come into compliance with the HCBS Settings Rule. This webinar highlights the efforts made by the Work Activity Center based out of West Valley City, Utah.
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Utah State Office of Rehabilitation - New Forms for CRP Services
Presenter: Jeff Pitts
The following videos provide training on the new forms for CRP Services as of July 1, 2019
Part 1: Referral Form & Work Strategy Assessment;
Part 2: Job Development & Placement;
Part 3: Job Coaching & Tracking;
Part 4: Transfer to Extended Services Form 58A and 58B.

Benefits Planning Series
Presenter: Ashlea Lantz, Griffin Hammis and Associates
This series provides an overview of Social Security Work Incentives.
Part 1: SSA Overview; Part 2: Title II Benefits and Work Incentives; Part 3: SSI Benefits and Work Incentives Part 1; Part 4: SSI Benefits and Work Incentives Part 2; Part 5: Applying the Information as an Employment Specialist - What is Your Role?


Person-Centered to Person-Driven: Successful Innovative Accommodations Elevating Services from Compliance to Alliance
Presenter: Jennifer White
Introductory webinar to learn accommodation strategies that successfully address barriers to employment. Jennifer covers a variety of tools that expand self-determination, direct connection with community members, colleagues, and residential teams, increase choice making, and financial literacy that bring powerful results.


Partnering with Individuals and their Families: An Important Ingredient in Employment First Planning
Presenter: Rachel Pollock
Explore the key role of effective engagement with individuals and families in our employment first initiatives. Emphasizing the importance of understanding concerns, fears, and life goals as a starting point for engaging individuals and families in employment first planning and designing agency plans/system change. Also discussed is the effective strategies for collaborating with families and an overview of the basic information we need to provide individuals and their families in the areas of work incentives, wrap around supports, and provider commitment.
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Meaningful Writing: Capturing Strengths and Ideal Conditions of Employment
Presenter: Doug Crandell
There is an ever-expanding demand from the vocational rehabilitation system to communicate, through written reports, the strengths, capacities, abilities, and preferences of the people we serve. Sounds simple. But the reality is, writing can be a bit of a challenge for most people. Even more so, how can we capture and document the focus person using a narrative approach? What if you were able to write a vocational profile that actually told the story about the person you are supporting, in a way that you and others could visualize that person working? This webcast provides basic ideas to improve writing skills, decrease stereotypes, and use words to create pictures, with the goal that the reader will gain a better understanding of the job seeker.
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Competitive Employment for People with Challenging Behaviors
Presenter: Dr. Dan Baker
Employment for people with intellectual or development disabilities who also present challenging behaviors remains on the more vexing problems in the field of disability supports. This group of people is often excluded from meaningful work, but needs the benefits of employment like any other person. This three-part webinar series addresses this topic area, blending employment supports and positive behavior supports in a person-centered manner. Hands-on strategies will be the focus of this series.
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Systematic Instruction: Teaching to Promote Success
Presenter: Teri Johnson
This is a two part webinar series provided by Teri Johnson on Systematic Instruction. Teri has extensive experience providing individualized technical assistance which includes: identifying strengths and preferences of individuals to guide job development; designing tasks and environments to accommodate learning styles; utilizing systematic instruction in teaching new and complex tasks; developing self-management strategies to increase and maintain independence; and troubleshooting performance issues including speed, accuracy and employability skills.
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Employer Relations and Considerations for Customized Employment
Presenter: Michael Callahan
This webinar, by Michael Callahan, focuses on how to develop relationships with employers, specifically in terms of customized job development and placement. Michael has consulted throughout the US, Canada and Europe in the area of supported employment for the past thirty seven years. He has worked with Marc Gold & Associates (MG&A) since 1979 and has served as president of the organization since Marc Gold’s untimely death in 1982. He is an editor of a popular “how-to” book on employment for persons with severe disabilities, Getting Employed, Staying Employed (1987) and co-author of Keys to the WorkPlace (1997) a text on systematic instruction and natural supports in supported employment.
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Community Action Teams
Presenters: Emily Raming & Janice Weinsten, PsyD
Discover an essential component of establishing partnerships for your agency in learning how to initiate community action teams (CAT) that will focus specifically on securing competitive integrated employment for persons living with ID/DD. This webinar will define how community businesses and family members can be sought for the CAT based on their ability to leverage influence and follow through with leads in the employment community. Explore how schools, provider agencies and other stakeholders can also be recruited to participate on the CAT. This webinar will also teach how to build a forum to allow job seekers to be heard in a strength-based and supportive setting as as to naturally educate and engage the community in customized employment.
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