Core Values and Principles
An ongoing problem solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future.
What is Person-Centered Planning?
A job Hunting tool developed to provide employers a complete picture of job seekers experience, education, accomplishments, skill sets and potential.
What is Career Seeker Portfolio?
The "Way of Life" for those in a particular workplace. It has many elements including laws, language, fashion, power relationships, conflict management processes and dispute resolution processes.
What is Workplace Culture?
Competitive employment is work performed in an integrated labor market, in which an individual is compensated at above or minimum wage.
What is Employment?
Services provided to assist an individual in understanding the options and possibilities in order to make an informed choice about going to work. These services result in a report that reviews a person's assets and income to make an informed choice about employment.
Benefits Counseling and Benefits Analysis
A respectful, accurate way of communicating about a person with a disability.
What is People-First Language?
A professional who assist an individual in obtaining and maintaining integrated employment by meeting the needs of businesses in the community.
What is an Employment Support Professional?
Also accepted is Employment Specialist, Job Coach, Job Developer.
Job Accommodation Network, The Abilities Fund, Ticket to Work (Social Security)
What are Self-Employment Resources for Job Seekers?
Professional who matches employers to employees through pairing targeted business needs with individual's transferable skills
What is a Job Developer?
A professional who provides necessary supports during the initial employment period to assist the employee to perform their job tasks to the employer's specifications and then facilitates the transition to natural workplace supports while reducing his or her role.
What is a Job Coach?
All people have the right to work and are entitles to equal access to employment in the general workforce.
What is the Employment First Initiative and Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
Formal and Informal Processes used to explore an individual's interests, abilities and aptitudes, in order to identify assets, barriers, support needs and career potential.
What is a Vocational Assessment?
Transportation, Counseling, Food Assistance, Doctors appointments, Housing etc.
What are Non-Work Needs that may impact successful Employment?
The process of breaking down a job into smaller steps for the purpose of teaching the job tasks to an employee in achievable parts over time.
What is a Task Analysis.
Supports form Supervisors and Co-workers in the work place to assist employees with disabilities to perform their jobs.
What are Natural Supports
If offering any assistance, always wait for a response and then follow the individual's instructions. • When talking to a person with a disability, talk directly to that individual, not the friend, companion or Sign Language interpreter who may be present. • Respect all assistive devices (i.e. canes, wheelchairs, crutches, communication boards) as personal property. Unless given permission, do not move, play with, or use them. • When introduced to a person with a disability, it is appropriate to offer to shake hands. People with limited hand use or who wear artificial limbs can usually shake hands. (Shaking hands with your left hand is an acceptable greeting.) • Remember to show your face while talking with someone who is Deaf or hard of hearing. • If greeting someone who is blind or has a visual impairment, identify yourself and those who may be accompanying you. • Do not pet or make a service dog the focus of conversation. • Allow the person to negotiate their surroundings, e.g., finding the door handle, locating a chair, etc. • Treat adults as adults. Address people with disabilities by their first name only when extending the same familiarity to all others.
What is Disability Etiquette?
Visiting others who have the same interests as the job seeker is often a valuable step in collecting possible career information.
What is Informational Interviewing?
US Department of Education, Projects with Industry (PWI), Department of Labor Grants, Medicaid Waiver, Social Security , State Funded Waivers by County OVR, ODP, Public intellectual/developmental disability agencies, public mental health agencies, and public vocational rehabilitation agencies
What is Funding Sources for Employment Services?
Business/Employer Survey tool (quantitative/qualitative) used to understand labor market from the view of the private sector - the potential employers. The tool gathers information; local businesses' perceptions of job seekers; opportunities for mentorships, apprenticeships, and job placements; and information on hiring trends. The tool also collects information on skills in demand by potential employers.
What is Gathering Labor Market Trend Information
Environmental strategies can be one approach toward addressing a problem behavior; other interventions may include professional therapy, medication, and behavioral modification.
Positive/Negative behavior and intervention supports
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Positive Behavior Supports
A federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Helps people identify their: Employment goal, Recognize discrepancies, Structure self identified experiences or items necessary to reach their employment goal, and Solidifies goal ownership, includes: Open-ended Questions, Affirmations, Rolling with Resistance, Avoid arguing, Summarize, Develop Discrepancy, Support Self-Efficacy, Empathy
What is Motivational Interviewing?
The process of listing the key components of jobs and employment needs to develop a written proposal for an employer on how those needs can be met; includes language identifying job tasks for increased work efficiencies and the matching of an individual's skills with workplace needs. This can result in job restructuring or job creation.
What is Business Proposals (Job Carving)?
Federal Tax credits, On the job training, Meeting diversity goals
What are Business Incentives to hire people with disabilities?
A variety of activities that support the rights and needs of employees.
What is Advocacy?