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 Brown Bag Series

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This multi-media training series will provide you with an overview of  different disability topics.  At the end of each session, we have included resources and links for additional information on this topic.

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Nancy Brooks-Lane

Nancy Brooks - Lane

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5 min.

Nancy Brooks-Lane Shares an Example of Resource Ownership  (Excerpt from T-TAP's System's Change Online Seminar*)
Presenter: Nancy Brooks-Lane, Cobb Douglas Counties Community Services Board in Georgia.

Video Transcript: Text 
 

Nancy Brooks-Lane of Cobb Douglas Counties Community Services Board in Georgia, gives examples of some employment options that fall under a self-employment type of modality that focus on resource ownership, business within a business, and more traditional form of self-employment. In this excerpt, Nancy shares Keith's story about resource ownership and a partnership with a construction company. *Original Online Seminar:  Systems Change: Providing Quality Service Delivery for Persons with Disabilities

Resource

Please visit the T-TAP (Training and Technical Assistance for Providers) website for more examples and additional resources on this topic: T-TAP Online Seminars

 


Previous Brown Bag Seminars

Making Your Business Accessible
Presenter: Marian Vessels, Director of the ADA and IT Information Center for the Mid-Atlantic Region.
 

Lex Frieden

Future Outlook of Employment for People with Disabilities
Presenter: Lex Frieden, Sr. VP at TIRR; Dir. of TIRR's ILRU; & Professor of PM&R at Baylor College of Medicine
Original Source: RRTC & PMR's Spinal Cord Injury and Employment Telecast, June 23,2004

Cheryl Al-Mateen

Seeking Mental Health Treatment - A Primer for African Americans
Presenter: Cheryl S. Al-Mateen, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University

Justin Dart

Max Starkloff reads the Farewell Message of Justin Dart Jr.
Justin Dart, Jr
. advocated for human rights for over four decades. He served five Presidential appointments in the area of disability policy.

Manpower photo

Manpower, VCU-RRTC, & SunTrust Bank Put Ability to Work in the 21st Century
Millie Hewett, MANPOWER; Paul Wehman, VCU-RRTC; C.T. Hill, CEO, SunTrust Bank; Katherine McCary,  SunTrust Bank; Howard Green, VCU-RRTC
 

Debra Ruh's photo

Telecommuting and People with Disabilities
Debra Ruh, C.E.O. TecAccess, Over 75% of the staff at TecAccess are people with disabilities.

Photo of Connie Ferrell

Work Incentives Associated with Medical Insurance Coverage
Connie Ferrell is a consultant and trainer providing information on employment and inclusion for people with disabilities.

Susan Omara

SSI and Work Incentives - 1619b
Susan O'Mara is the Technical Assistance Associate with the Virginia Commonwealth University Project Office

Laurie Ford

Employment & Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Laurie Ford, Dir. for Community Rehab Training at the Center for Continuing Ed in Rehab (CCER), WWU

Paul Wehman

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Return to Work - Case Study
Dr. Paul Wehman, Professor, VCU & Director of the RRTC on Workplace Supports

don shrey

Disability Management Best Practices
Don Shrey, Ph.D., C.R.C. is the President of Advanced Transitions, Inc. an international consulting business

photo lex frieden

Investing in People Through Technology
Lex Frieden, Sr VP,  Institute for Rehabilitation & Research, Houston,TX
 

Paul Wehman

Supported Employment Best Practices
Dr. Paul Wehman, Professor, VCU & Director of the RRTC on Workplace Supports

Wendy Wood and Larry Cooper

Self Determination
Wendy Wood, Associate Professor, UNC
Larry Cooper, Self-Advocate

Photo Ken McGill

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act 
Ken McGill

 


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