This course explores benefits and work incentives planning, the code of conduct of Benefits Practitioners and effective communication strategies using lecture, PowerPoint and written materials. This skill-building session provides opportunity for question and answer.  Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

Topics covered will include: -The 2010 ADA Standards scoping requirements for play areas (i.e. when are play areas required to be accessible?) -Participants will learn about the ADA’s Program Accessibility and Barrier Removal Standards for Title II and Title III entities and how they should be applied to existing play areas (in place prior to March 15, 2012) that are not being altered. -Technical requirements for achieving accessibility with the 2010 ADA Standards (this will include an overview of the 2010 ADA Standards Section 1008 requirements for play areas): • Play Components • Soft Contained Play Structures • Accessible Routes • Accessible Surfaces Who would benefit from these webinars? -Architects and Playground design/construction professionals -Building owners and managers -Parks and Recreation management personnel -Property Managers -Municipal managers -ADA coordinators -Disability advocates

This comprehensive discussion of SSAs disability standard, review and appeals process, uses PowerPoint, lecture and written materials to provide a detailed overview of the program the majority of American workers will depend upon should they become faced with a disabling medical condition. This detailed session provides opportunity for question and answer. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge.  A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

 The trainer will explain the Rights of Blind People under the ADA, including in employment and, public and private services.

 This webinar focuses on challenging traditional automatic assumptions of “disability as deficit”  and poses a view of disability as diversity.  In this context, we discuss ten key points around respectful and effective workplace interactions with people with disabilities.

This session will review the following topics: • Being prepared: equipment, materials, and having a day of point of contact. • Being early: scouting out and setting up the site with time to spare • More than a crowd: engaging your audience, getting to know them, and having them interested in you and each other. • Knowing and understanding your audience: using attendee appropriate communication. • Staying on track: promoting discussion while monitoring time.

This detailed discussion will cover the history of SSA involvement in work incentives and return to work efforts.  What is the Ticket to Work and how does it function in the return to work setting?  Using a Power Point, lecture and written materials the participant will gain and understanding of this important work incentive and the extensive services and protections that it can provide to individual with disabilities. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge.  A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

 This program focuses on disability demographic, economic, policy and employment trends in 2013.   Using an interactive format, participants explore what these trends mean for their professional practice.

Speaker: Marian Vessels, Director, Mid-Atlantic ADA Center

The Department of Justice regulations clarify what a service animal is, but hoteliers still have many questions about how to appropriately serve individuals traveling with service animals. You will learn about handlers' responsibilities and hotels' obligations: Who may have a service animal? How many service animals may one person have? Where can service animals go on the property? This session will also discuss the new regulations addressing miniature horses, and how they apply to the lodging industry. Learn what questions you can and cannot ask about service animals. There will be ample time for questions and answers.

 Presenters: Dave Whalen, Shameka Andrews, Bridget Cariello, Marisol Getchius, and Jessica Campbell.  Hosted by Carrie Burkin.

Please join us for this virtual tour of systemic advocacy events taking place across our state. We will be hearing from NYS PIP Graduates in Buffalo, Albany and Long Island.  They will share information about several awesome advocacy programs in which they are involved.  Below is a bit of detail about each presenting Partner.

Dave Whalen is a 2007 PIP graduate, is the Statewide Project Coordinator for Niagara University’s First Responder Disability Awareness Training, and the Chair of the Town of Amherst’s Committee on Disabilities.  He will be discussing the Town Hall Training program and First Responders and Emergency Management.

Shameka Andrews, 2011 Partners graduate, will discuss her final partners project, Disability Empowerment Day, which is now in its 2^nd year.  She will fill us in on how it got started and how you can get involved.

Bridget Cariello (PIP 2008), Marisol Getchius (PIP 2011) and Jessica Campbell (PIP 2012) will be with us to share “SANYS U, The School of Grassroots Advocacy”.  The SANYS U program is designed to increase the grassroots efforts of self-advocacy statewide, and develop regions where advocates truly understand choice, opportunity, rights and responsibilities.

v  This is the second of 4 webinars in our Legislative Advocacy Series.  These webinars have been created specifically for Partners Grads.  Please be sure to save the dates below for the final two webinars.

Upcoming Grad Webinars in the 2013 Legislative Advocacy Series

Thursday 9/19/13 5:00pm to 6:30pm - We will be exploring systemic advocacy at a state level.  We will be hearing from Albany area policymakers.

Thursday 1/21/13 5:00pm to 6:30pm- We will be investigating systemic advocacy at a national level.  We will hear from a speaker who is involved in policy changes across the country.

Through the use of PowerPoint, lecture and written materials, participants will gain highly specialized information that will assist any SSDI beneficiary who wishes to return to work at any level of activity. Proper planning and information is critical to this effort and participants will gain the knowledge necessary to help ease this transition. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge of work incentives utilization. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

Lecture, PowerPoint presentation and written materials will guide participants through the complex maze of rules and regulations controlling the SSI program. Special knowledge will be gained concerning just how to deal with crises when they erupt. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

 This event brings together disability employment professionals and members of Cornell University’s staffing community in an effort to enhance employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities who are interested in working at Cornell.

Through the use of PowerPoint, lecture and written materials, participants will gain information that will assist SSDI beneficiaries who wish to return to work at any level of activity. Proper planning and information is critical to this effort and participants will gain the knowledge necessary to help ease this transition. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

Topics covered will include: -The 2010 ADA Standards scoping requirements for Places of Transient Lodging (i.e. What types of occupancies are required to comply with the 2010 ADA Standards for Places of Transient Lodging?) -Participants will learn about the 2010 ADA Standards Safe Harbor regulations and applicability to existing elements of hotels/resorts that are not being altered. -Technical requirements for achieving accessibility with the 2010 ADA Standards (this will include an overview of the 2010 ADA Standards Sections 224 and 806 requirements for places of transient lodging including Guest Rooms with Mobility Features and Guest Rooms with Communication Features) -Review of updated ADA Regulations applicable to places of Transient Lodging (Service Animals, Hotel Reservations, Mobility Devices, Effective Communication Policies, etc…) Who would benefit from these webinars? -Architects and Design Professionals -Hotel- Resort owners and managers -Hotel management personnel -Property Managers -ADA coordinators -Disability advocates

Through the use of PowerPoint presentation, lecture and written materials participants will gain the knowledge and tools needed to provide critical information to SSI recipients with disabilities who are considering a return to work. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge of work incentive utilization. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

This informational seminar provides basic information pertaining to benefits overpayments using lecture, PowerPoint and opportunity for question and answer. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge.  A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

This informational seminar provides basic information pertaining to the TANF and SNAP programs using lecture, PowerPoint and opportunity for question and answer. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.

This session will review the following topics: • Overview of leisure and disability coping • The ADA and Worksite Wellness Programming • Summary of Cornell/SUNY-Cortland Worksite Wellness Study Findings

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy recently published “Business Strategies that Work: A Framework for Disability Inclusion.” This guide for employers focuses on policies and practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing qualified individuals with disabilities and ensuring that the workplace is truly diverse and inclusive. It is organized into seven action areas.

This webinar focuses on the key action area of establishing an inclusive business culture. During this webinar you will learn from a business that is acknowledged as a leader in inclusiveness how they approach inclusiveness for all their employees, why this is a top global priority for them, and how they build awareness within their company.  You will also learn how the company’s goal of an inclusive and diverse workplace is communicated to employees at all levels of the organization. Finally, they will share educational materials that they developed as well as lessons learned.

This informational seminar provides basic information pertaining to federally-subsidized housing using lecture, PowerPoint and opportunity for question and answer. Online polling will be used to test participant knowledge. A preparatory reading assignment will be provided and is required.