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"Customized Employment" Webinar
Thursday, January 14, 2021
1:00-2:30 PM MST
Greetings!

The Montana Deaf-Blind Project is pleased to announce the third session in our webinar series on work experience and employment for students with a significant impact of disability, including students with deaf-blindness. MT OPI renewal unit credit is available.

Customized Employment
Thursday, January 14, 2021
1:00-2:30 PM Mountain Standard Time
Description:
This session will introduce audience members to Customized Employment, illustrate how this strategy can support access to community employment for students with significant disabilities, and share information about how to access Customized Employment through Vocational Rehabilitation in Montana.
Presenters:
Cheri Reed-Anderson has worked for Montana Vocational Rehabilitation for almost 10 years. She is the counselor supervisor in the Miles City Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) office. Customized Employment is important to Cheri and the clients that VR serves. She is currently working on building capacity to provide Customized Employment to clients across Montana. Cheri makes her home in Miles City with her husband, their Labrador Retriever and their two cats.
Ellen Condon is the Transition Projects Director and the Montana Deaf-Blind Project Director at the University of Montana's Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities, where she has worked since 1996 on Transition and Employment for youth with significant disabilities. She is also a consultant with Marc Gold & Associates (MG&A) and works part-time for the National Center on Deaf-Blindness as a Transition Consultant. Ellen has worked in the field of Developmental Disabilities since 1986. Prior to coming to Montana her experiences included hands-on service delivery, program development and program management in community residential and supported employment programs. She received her Master's degree in Special Education from Boston College in 1990 after completing course work in Transition and Supported Employment. At the Rural Institute she has served as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for numerous Federal and state-funded grants. She has provided technical assistance, training, and on-site support to schools, agencies, and individuals and families predominantly in the areas of customized employment, transition, and systematic instruction. 
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

One hour of Montana Office of Public Instruction renewal credit is available for the webinar. You must request the credit when you register, and you must attend the full training to receive OPI credit.

The webinar will be recorded and archived to the Montana Deaf-Blind Project and Transition and Employment Projects resource libraries.

Live captioning will be provided for this webinar. Please contact Kim Brown by 5:00 PM Monday, January 11th to arrange any other necessary accommodations.
About the Work Experience Series:
The Montana Deaf-Blind Project is pleased to announce our webinar series on work experience and employment for students with a significant impact of disability, including students with deaf-blindness. The purpose of this series is to provide teams supporting students with deaf-blindness and a significant impact of disability the tools to:
  • Explore community employment as a post-school outcome for all of their students,
  • Begin identifying students’ interests, skills, abilities, and support needs, and
  • Identify tasks individual students could offer in employment.

The end goal of the webinar series is for teams to use the information to create an individualized work experience for a student with whom they are currently involved.

Webinars include:
November 5, 2020 from 12-1:30 MST: Kim Norris-Scrano shared her daughter Alana’s story. Kim began thinking about employment for Alana in elementary school, identifying her strengths and interests and turning those into vocational opportunities.

December 3, 2020 from 1-2:30 MST: Montana Vocational Rehabilitation staff presented information on Pre-Employment Transition Services and how they are supporting Montana students with disabilities to prepare for a working life.

January 14, 2021 from 1-2:30 MST: Ellen Condon and Cheri Reed-Anderson will discuss using a Customized Employment strategy to think about employment for everyone…

February 11, 2021 from 12:-1:30 MST: Kim Norris-Scrano will continue the conversation about meaningful work experiences.

Further details and registration links for the individual sessions will be sent to Montana Transition E-Mail List members and posted to the Montana Deaf-Blind Project and Transition and Employment Projects websites.

Did you miss the Montana Deaf-Blind Project’s 2019 Transition to Employment Webinar Series? Or the recent webinars on SSI Work Incentives and Age 18 Redetermination, ABLE Accounts, online etiquette (“Netiquette”), and more? If so, the recordings and handouts are archived on the Montana Deaf-Blind Project website: http://mtdeafblind.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/events-training/ and on the Transition and Employment Projects website: http://transition.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/training-events/
This webinar is brought to you by the Montana State Deaf-Blind Project, with support from the Montana Transition Resources Project.

The Montana Deaf-Blind Project is supported by grant #H326T180038 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The statements herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Department.

The Montana Transition Resources Project is funded in whole or in part under a contract with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. The statements herein do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Department.

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