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"Designing Meaningful Work Experiences" Webinar
Thursday, February 11, 2021
12:00-1:30 PM MST
Greetings!

The Montana Deaf-Blind Project is pleased to announce the fourth 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.

Designing Meaningful Work Experiences
Thursday, February 11, 2021
12:00-1:30 PM Mountain Standard Time
Description:
Microbrewery owners, Veterans living with PTSD, inmates at the Montana Women’s Prison, a bank president, a documentary filmmaker...

Question- What could possibly link all these individuals (and more) together?
Answer- Alana - A Jill of All Trades!

Discover how Alana and her mom, Kim, have opened themselves to opportunity and built a life full of joy and purpose by sharing their passions in the vocational realm and beyond. Alana - A Jill of All Trades is synonymous with a group of individuals working together to make our world a little brighter, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to do the same!

See how Alana’s community is built one relationship at a time as her contagious spirit and fearlessly authentic presence brings folks of all backgrounds together. Explore ways to utilize resources to support individuals with a significant impact of disability in their endeavors. And, understand how this can all be accomplished in the face of adversity!
Presenter:
Kim Norris-Scrano is a self-proclaimed "everything-ologist”, but her role as a mother is a driving force in most endeavors. Her oldest daughter and greatest teacher, Alana (19), was born with a rare chromosome difference. Kim's love for Alana took her into the role of advocate. And, sharing her life experiences with others is a way of both paying it back and paying it forward to other families of children with disabilities. Before leaving the traditional workforce to raise her other three children Sal (10), Serena (7) and Cecelia (6), Kim taught special education in 4th and 5th grades. Kim and Alana have built a hobby business together. Their weekdays are filled with baking dog treats, tending barnyard critters (sheep, ducks, chickens, dogs and cats), and planning their next adventure.
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, February 8th 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 discussed 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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