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Announcing the Customized Employment Webconference Series
June and September, 2006
- About the webconference series
- Register for a session
- Watch archived sessions
- Technical requirements
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About the Customized Employment Webconference Series
Audience: One-Stop staff and partners, community rehabilitation providers, job developers, business service representatives, and other interested parties.
Cost: There is no charge for these webconferences.
Time: All sessions run from 1-2:30 Eastern time.
Read about the presenters.
Summer Series: Funding Customized Employment
The Customized Employment (CE) process links together a set of strategies designed for all people who need a job customized to their needs in order to work. Services can be offered from either a system perspective or an individual job seeker's perspective. The Summer Series shares both the system and job seekers' sides to discuss funding Customized Employment activities.
Date: June 1, 2006
Topic: Funding CE Activities
CE grantees will share their varied efforts to offer Customized Employment activities as part of the existing system or newly created systems. Alaska representatives will discuss how they have utilized CE to help systemically redesign their job centers while providing additional tools for staff serving persons with various complexities. Tennessee and Alaska staff will cover each of the CE activities (discovery/profile, employment plan, portfolios/resumes, job development, job support) and share their efforts to continue these CE services in a variety of ways.
Presenters: Sean O'Brien, Alaska CE Grant; Wendie Wilson, Workforce Connections, Tennessee
Materials: Alaska's CE Grant (Powerpoint)
Watch the archived June 1 webconference
(A PC is required to view archived sessions. Technical requirements.)
Date: June 8, 2006
Topic: Job Seeker/Consumer-Directed Funding
Funding is typically considered from a program perspective. This session will focus on ways that a job seeker can have a great influence on, if not control, how funding is used to assist them in their job development. Participants will hear strategies several sites used to increase a job seeker's co-enrollment in various systems to reach their employment outcomes. Presenters will offer strategies, examples of various funding opportunities, resources, and materials to assist sites to consider CE activities as a part of other employment-related services, both for inclusion in these services and for funding these services in a facilitated approach.
Presenters: Nancy Brooks-Lane, Georgia CE Grant; Rich Toscano, Georgia Workforce Action Grant; Michael Morris, National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation
Materials: Diversified Funding: Demystifying the Quest for Money (Powerpoint)
Shifting from Promise to Demonstration to Ongoing Practice in Georgia (Powerpoint)
Funding Strategies to Support Employment Services and Customized Employment Outcomes (Powerpoint)
Watch the archived June 8 webconference
(A PC is required to view archived sessions. Technical requirements.)
Fall Series: Self-Employment
Self-employment means a customized job often developed through creating a business. This is an ever-growing strategy to increase income for many people, and is an important component of job development. Note: These sessions are offered in addition to the CE mini-series offered in 2005-2006 to providers of employment-related services, job center staff, and their partners.
Date: September 8, 2006
Topic: Overview of Self-Employment: A Customized Job
This session will give an overview of self-employment and related activities that create a viable business furthering economic development in an area and meeting a job seeker's employment needs. Some businesses may be more easily developed via a partnership or alliance with other businesses, while others may require consideration of who the "potential business owner" is and the resources to support business opportunities.
Presenter: Cary Griffin, Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC
Date: September 14, 2006
Topic: Self-Employment in CE Sites
This presentation will focus on how two projects implemented self-employment in their communities with a variety "owners" and businesses. Presenters will share strategies and issues that emerged during the process of planning new businesses and assisting their owners. They will also discuss the role of discovery and employment planning in developing the potential business concept and also the role of families or community supports for self-employment.
Presenters: Steve Savage, Indianapolis CE Grant; Lisa Newman, Montana CE Grant; Norciva Shumpert, Marc Gold & Associates
TO REGISTER: Email your name, email address, and phone number to rachael.webb@umb.edu with the subject line "Customized Employment."
You can register for the entire series or individual sessions.
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The National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult (NCWD/A) provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for all in the workforce development system. NCWD/A is funded by the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor.
