This training covered: context for the Career Development Initiative; Recovery Principles; Employment as an Evidence-Based Practic; and the Clinical Connection.

NY will provide a brief introduction to TransQual Online and the “cycle of change” workday process, used to increase districts’ compliance around Indicator #13 while simultaneously introducing and providing guided practice in the use of a tool kit for systemic change and continuous organizational improvement. TransQUAL Online is a tool to support school district teams as they collaboratively review and improve their practices in career development and transition. TransQUAL is built on the New York State Transition Quality Indicators Self-Assessment (TQI), adapted from the work of Dr. Paula Kohler from Western Michigan University (see Taxonomy for Transition Programming: http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~kohlerp ). This web site is developed and maintained by Cornell University’s Employment and Disability Institute, through the support and guidance of the New York State Education Department, Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (NYS VESID).

Presented on Wireless Internet Learning Devices and Teching and Learning for Students with Disabilities

Community Dialogue: Identifying & Measuring Quality Indicators- Cross Stakeholders & Cross Systems (Led by NY)

Office of Mental Health, Career Development Initiative Psychiatric Centers will give an update on Work: It's Everybody's Business!

Discussion of SSA work incentive programming available to SSI recipients.

This one day session provides a step-by-step guide to helping human service staff recognize how to support people with disabilities choose, get and keep a job. The session targets all direct care staff who are responsible for developing and implementing plans with people.

This workshop will demonstrate for corrections education personnel a planning process for supporting assessment, rehabilitation, treatment and release planning for inmates with disabilities. The "Framework for Planning" is part of a series of interventions being used under a five year research demonstration with the Department of Correctional Services.

Office of Mental Health, Career Development Initiative Psychiatric Centers will give an update on Work: It's Everybody's Business!

This presentation is designed to engage participants in discovering where and how simple every day acts may inadvertently create and/or perpetuate stigma and discrimination of people with disabilities

Discussion of special work protections and medicaid coverage available to SSI recipients engaging in work activity.

Transition from secondary school is a time of great change in the lives of young people. They are presented with opportunities for independence that they have never faced before. Assistive technology can help to support young people as they leave the familiar surroundings of high school and move into post-secondary education and work. There are many considerations that students will have to make as they move into these new environments including how to know what technology they need, how to ask for the technology, and how to pay for it. This session will review these essential considerations along with a review of the types of technology that are commonly used for people with disabilities.

It is difficult to think of an occupation today that does not involve computers. Because technology use today is so interconnected, within a company as well as externally, any decisions regarding the use of technology must take into account the entire interconnected network. Assistive technology devices are available for accommodating people with a very wide range of needs. It provides access to the information technology used by the business world for people who experience functional limitations associated with disabilities. This session will provide a basic overview of the types of assistive technology currently in use by individuals with disabilities to gain access to or improve productivity with computing technology. It will also review the considerations when implementing assistive technology in the business world. This training presentation is based on one of a series of nine essential trainings developed and offered by the Business and Disability Technical Assistance Center at Cornell university.

In this session we will consider emerging legal, practical and human trends regarding disability inclusive hiring practices.

Prepare students for post-secondary studies, increase independence, and save time and money, to boot: sound too good to be true? Providing electronic text and alternate format materials for students with print disabilities has the potential to do just this. This session will discuss the process, demonstrate some of the tools, outline the associated cost and time savings, and point out the potential benefits of providing textbooks and other instructional materials in the format that best suits the students’ needs and abilities.

Participants will learn how to apply A Framework for Planning to customize employment plans, carve vocational niches and establish responsive systems for support

The purpose of this 90-minute webinar will be to provide an overview of select national surveys used to generate key disability statistics, and discuss and illustrate their relevance for centers for independent living and state disability public policy advocates. As a result of this session, participants will understand the availability and quality of existing data sources and will learn how to use the data to enhance grant and funding application preparation as well as target outreach to unserved and lesser-served communities in their states. The webinar will be captioned for the hearing impaired.

This one day session provides a step-by-step guide to helping human service staff recognize how to support people with disabilities choose, get and keep a job. The session targets all direct care staff who are responsible for developing and implementing plans with people.

This session is designed to orient people who are using facility psychiatric services to a planning process that identifies his or her individual strengths, interests and ideas for moving forward toward experiencing community membership in personally meaningful ways Featuring Connie Ferrell and John Allegretti-Freeman as guest speakers

Connie Ferrell will conduct his one day session on theory and skill-building for finding the "hidden" job market that exists in every community. Emphasis on individualized planning processes, i.e. person-centered planning will form the basis for training