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Suggested
Training Topics |
Elements
of Best Training a Respondent Has Attended |
General
Comments about Training |
| Illinois |
- Management in high stress environments
with multi-task situations
- Identifying with the employer
- Web-based training to accommodate
employee's schedules
- Community education on disabilities
and rewards of hiring individuals with disabilities
- Ticket-to-Work training-old and new
info
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- Training on dealing with difficult
people and interest based bargaining - gave me real tools that
were applicable immediately.
- Some of the most innovative conferences
had nothing to do with DD, but rather organization development,
leadership, etc.
- IARF job placement/carving was excellent
- great place to have seminars/training as well as central location.
- Iowa has a very good job development
/job coach curriculum that needs to be completed prior to engaging
in both services.
- Teleconferences-convenient
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- Teleconferences would be a good option
- keep them short and to the point, since lack much interaction
- More on medication training
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| Indiana |
- Supporting real systems change, consumer
choice, person-centered planning, money following the consumers,
supporting grass-root organizations
- On-going supported employment training
- Professional boundaries and ethics,
job development with a business sense vs. a charity sense
- Job placement for individuals with
significant disabilities using natural supports
- How to work with families and care
givers
- How to maintain people with psychiatric
disabilities on the job site for more than six months - learn
more about medications from a doctor, etc.
- Laws and regulations
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- Denise Bisenette's trainings are excellent
- they get the participants to use a different perspective
- Advanced Employment Services Simulation
Training - gave overview of how, what, why, where, and when of
supporting individuals with disabilities
- Group Facilitation/Skills - as a trainer/consultant
it has helped me to better mediate and focus conversation in groups
and in trainings
- Business leadership training - afforded
hearing directly from business
- Organizational development - able
to implement the concepts immediately
- SECT Center Training at
www.sectcenter.org
- Alternatives to guardianship - practical
methods of insuring independence with safe guards.
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- Use trainers who use services or trainers
from organizations that hire consumers for real work
- Conferences can be too long.
Give more specific direction as related to supporting those with
severe disabilities
- I liked this online needs assessment
and would be interested in the result - easy, fast, and comprehensive
- nice job.
- Provide spell check on the form...would
like to see results of survey by demographics. Another area I
would like to see you do is to develop a panel of employment networks
who were involved in the first Ticket Roll Out to states, as well
as consumers and state VR - to assist our state in building partnerships
with all of the stakeholders. Barb Otto of the SSI coalition
as well as the region's BPAO projects will be heading up something
like this in the next two months.
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| Michigan |
- Building an individual's self-esteem
and supporting individual choice in meaningful ways
- Induction training of first line primary
contact staff
- Managerial training for succession.
Large class of administrators who are aging out of system and
there has not been any systematic training opportunities available
to prepare a new generation of administrators.
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- Adult education - presenter framed
problem, provided resource materials, created a safe environment
for inquiry and set tasks for participants; effective us of small
and large groups; Section 8 housing - presenter provided lots
of useful info geared for local adaptation
- MARO Spring Management Conference
- Michigan Rehabilitation Conference
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- These multi-state surveys do not allow
for prescriptive approaches by the CEC that is responsive to individual
state needs.
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| Minnesota |
- Leadership development. Understanding
the changes in funding options.
- Teaching CRPs the importance of client
independence, person-centered planning, natural supports, professional
boundaries.
- More job development training and
learning about research that supports the supported employment
model
- Working with employers, overcoming
employer rejection
- Making better job matches
- Leadership training, job placement
strategies, SE, ethics, learning ho to work with Boards
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- The best trainings are when presenters
involve the participant.
- Diane Goodwin of Blue Sky Design in
Minneapolis. She is a rehab engineer and she presented a
very organized assistive tech training with many examples and
extensive info about assistive tech and employment. She was very
knowledgeable of my organization and she was able to tailor the
training to our needs.
- The Community Support Provider Conference
had a few really good speakers.
- Week-long training on deaf/hard of
hearing at NIU. Intense with several speakers to keep the
topic and discussion fresh. On-site tours and real situations
were incorporated to take info from group and put it into use
during training. Presentation manner outstanding
- The best trainings bring new ideas
and understanding to agency and its staff. People need to
think about things in new ways and also hear from other participants
who share similar situations and issues.
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- It is very hard to attend relevant
trainings when you are working for a non-profit agency that does
not wish to spend money to send staff. Location is also a barrier
as trainings are usually held in the Twin Cities and our company
is based in Northern MN.
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| Wisconsin |
- Turnover is an issue in WI so continue
basic training on serving people with disabilities, behavioral
issues, job placement, job coaching techniques, data collection,
etc.
- Midi-management staff need to be better
trained as trainers for those they supervise
- Training on collaboration due to funding
cuts
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- Our state association,
RFW, conducts a series of trainings each year that are good
because they are geared to the needs of facility staff and not
the state agency staff. We work with clients on a day to
day basis - the real world - need hands-on-training.
- Vocational Autism Alliance Project,
LaGrange, IL - lots of current information on assessment
and presenters very knowledgeable...
- Team building for our agency - we
benefited because each of us had the same info so applying the
training was fairly easy. Sending just one isn't sufficient
for a training that requires group support/application.
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- My comments may appear to be inconsistent
but that is because we have a core of experienced staff who have
a good handle on things, but we also have a need for basic training
for new staff in the field. We continue to fight budget
cuts and so far, no one is providing instruction on how to do
state-of-the-art services with make-do staffing.
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