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Project: Start-Up-USA
Presenter(s): Christine Hess
Planning for a business start-up is one thing, but finding funding for business start-up is yet another. Often, great business ideas are not implemented, because financial feasibility is not a focus during the business planning process.
Project: VCU-RRTC
Presenter(s): Howard Green
This webcast discusses the importance of utilizing business in your programs as well as how to start working together as partners. It also provides information regarding why it is important to listen and involve business, and shares practical ways to utilize business involvement.
Project: Business Connections
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Getzel
The transition from high school to college is challenging for all students. However students with disabilities once protected and supported by IDEA policy may be unaware of the challenges facing them once they enter higher education.
Project: Work Incentive Planning & Assistance National Training Center (WIPA-NTC)
Presenter(s): Lucy Miller
This webcast provides practical information on how to effectively report wages or other forms of earned income to the Social Security Administration.
Project: VCU Project Empowerment: Improving Minority Disability Research Capacity
Presenter(s): Allen Lewis, Ph.D., Andrew Imparato, Phillip Rumrill, Keith Wilson
This web cast will present a model of disability disparities. Though the concept of health disparities is discussed in the health care literature, there is no such model that explicitly addresses disparities in the disability literature. Therefore, this model begins to fill a void in the disability literature.
Project: Business Connections
Presenter(s): Katherine Wittig, Kelly Ligon
The IEP team is responsible for facilitating the age-appropriate transition assessment process. Are you confused about which tools to use and who else might partner with you to gather this valuable information with your students?
Project: VCU-RRTC
Presenter(s): Beth Keeton
Project: VCU-RRTC
Presenter(s): Mary Huber, Debbie Joseph, Missy Jones
Project: Business Connections
Presenter(s): Sallie Rhodes
Project: Business Connections
Presenter(s): Gary Bond, Ph.D.
The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based model of supported employment for individuals with severe mental illness. However, little is known about the nature and intensity of follow-along support in IPS programs or how IPS helps clients become steady workers over the long term. This webcast summarizes the findings for a two-year follow-up study of follow-along support and employment outcomes for 142 IPS clients. We found that mean job tenure for IPS clients was twice that reported in the literature. We also found a significant association between frequency of follow-along contact and duration of employment. I discuss the study’s implications for specifying the employment specialist role after a job start and for enhancing the effectiveness of the IPS model with regard to job tenure.
Project: VCU Project Empowerment: Improving Minority Disability Research Capacity
Presenter(s): Allen Lewis, Ph.D., Aisha Shamburger, MS, CRC, CRP, Ph.D. Student
Do you ever wonder what tools are out there that really work to improve your ability as a service provider of rehabilitation or disability services to connect cross-culturally? Do you sometimes wish that you could find the “right” tool that would integrate seamlessly into your current counseling style? Well, look no further. Join us for the next Project Empowerment webcast titled “How to Improve Your Cultural Competency Using the Three-Factor Model.” The three-factor model is an assessment tool that you will develop to enhance your ability to get acquainted with your clients along the three factors of cultural identity, stage of development, and adjustment to disability.
