Work Preparation and Employment

Cal Stat Transition SummitChapman University

January 20, 2011

Presenter Desiree De Santos-Shaffer

Agenda:

Transition ProgrammingDisability DisclosureAccommodationsWork Site EvaluationsJob Coaching & Natural SupportsOJT’s

Transition Programming

….to empower all individuals with disabilities with the skills necessary to achieve their full potential in adult living, through support and collaboration with families, education and communities.

Transition Planning

Grooming for Work

Students use a personal grooming schedule to prepare for work.

Students go shopping to purchase their hygiene/grooming supplies

Grooming

Students learn how to use washing machines and dryers

Students work on folding, hanging, and ironing clothing.

Preparing Lunch for Work

Students make daily lunch. Depending on their work schedule they have options of microwaving, making a sandwich or using the George Foreman Grill. Parents give input on choices offered based on dietary needs. Picture supports are given to students to make food group choices for the week. Students selects a variety of healthy and fun foods to eat.

Students take a lunch break at a dining establishment.

Lunch Break

Transportation & Mobility

In the adult transition program students use public busing and/or walk to their destinations. With assistance students work on planning out their destinations and how they will get there.

Students go through the office building collecting the Recycle good such as Paper, Cans, and Bottles. Students work on greetings and making small conversation with the staff when entering the offices.

Recycling Program

Work Skills

Students in the adult transition program work on office skills in the classroom and then use those applications at their site.

Some of the skills the students work on in and out of the classroom are shredding, filing, folding letters, alphabetizing, computer skills, emailing, and copying.

Classroom Work Experience

Working on facing shelves in the classroom.

Working on office tasks in the classroom

Lamppost PizzaAtria Senior Center

WalgreensCVS

Woodbridge ManorChili’s

Candlewood SuitesH-Mart

JoAnn Fabric and Craft StoreHeritage Library

Stonecreek Animal HospitalHenry’s

Sports AuthorityBrandman University

Hoag HospitalDouble Tree HotelSmart and Final

Partners

Disability Disclosure

According to Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) –

“In a disability context, “disclosure” means that people with disabilities share personal information about their disability for the specific purpose of receiving accommodations.

What is a Disability Disclosure?

There is no standardized way to share ones disability.

Individuals need to determine the following:• What, if anything, they want to reveal. • They must determine whom to disclose to and

how much information to share• If they do not have an apparent disability one must decide if they should disclose their

disability. Will it help the individual receive the accommodations they require?

How to disclose a disability…

United States Department of Labor - Office of Disability Employment Policyhttp://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/fact/advising.htm

Decide how specific you will be when describing your disability.

Do you want to use general terms? Do you want to give your exact diagnosis?

Describe the skills you have that make you able to perform the main duties of the job.

Qualifications/Technical Skills General Work Sites

Describe any functional limitations or behaviors caused by your disability which interfere with your performance.

Identify accommodations you need to overcome those functional limitations or behaviors.

Optional: You may choose to describe the behaviors or symptoms the employer might observe and tell the employer what steps to take as a result.

Point the employer to resources for further information.

Ways for Individuals to Disclose their Disability

The 411 on Disability Disclosures

Disability Disclosure Form

Career Link – Irvine Unified School District

Accommodations

Modifications or adjustments to the work environment or to the circumstances under which a particular task is customarily performed that enable a qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of that position (including jobs, education, and community involvement).

• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth. (2005). The 411 on Disability Disclosure – A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities

What is an Accommodation?

http://www.ncwd-youth.info/assets/guides/411/411_Disability_Disclosure_complete.pdf

In order to receive any kind of accommodation in the workplace or post-secondary education, information needs to be disclosed to the proper administration.

• While individuals are in grades K-12 the accommodations they need are disclosed through their IEP and IEP team.

• Before leaving the school system the individual needs to know that if they would like or need to receive accommodations it will be their responsibility to request these accommodations and that they may have to disclose their disability in order to receive the accommodations.

• Knowledge of their specific accommodations and when they require the accommodation will assist the individual with deciding what disability information needs to be shared.

Accommodations

United States Department of Labor - Office of Disability Employment Policyhttp://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/fact/advising.htm

AccommodationAssistive Devices

Accommodations Assistive Devices

Accommodations at WorkWork Schedules

Student’s Work Accommodation

Work Site Accommodation

Student working the front desk at Candlewood Suites. She uses a filing place holder to help with her job task.

Filing Accommodation

Student working at his job site folding napkins. He uses a tally sheet to total up how many napkins he has folded during this assigned job task.

Work Accommodation

While at working at this site one of the young ladies wears her backpack at work with her personal belongings. She prefer having her items with her, so the team made this accommodation for her.

Work Accommodation

Home Accommodation

Home Accommodation

Work Site Evaluations

Weekly Evaluations of Student at Work

Job Coaching and Natural Supports

Students working at Marshall’s with their job coach.

Job Coaching

Student interning at CVS works with his manager to face the shelves.

Natural Supports

My likes and Dislikes My gifts and talents What works and What Doesn’t Work

Places I go

My greatest challenges

Choices I make How I communicate

My health and wellness

PCP

How I interact with others

The people in my life

My life story

Person Centered Planning (PCP)……is an ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In person centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and that person’s vision of what they would like to do in the future. This “person-centered” team meets to identify opportunities for the student to develop personal relationships, participate in their community, increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed to achieve these goals.

Person Centered Planning

SDSU Interwork Institute, 1991

PERSON CENTERED PLANNING TOOL

Curtis, Simonds, Koorndyk- Diagnostic Center Southern California

Allen, Shea & Associates

Getting from Where I Am to Where I Want to Be!

OJT’s

What is OJT?• Excellent job placement tool for

negotiating employment for consumer

• Offsets training costs and fees to assist business with expenses related to training the individual

• Incentive for businesses to hire DOR consumer = good business sense

What is OJT? (cont.)

• Training Stipend for the employer/trainer only and not to supplement wages

• Non-binding contract among: Consumer, SVRC, and Business

• Opportunity to conduct community outreach to qualified local businesses

Goals of OJT• SVRC collaborates with local

Employer/Businesses = develops stable relationships for future hiring opportunities

• Incentive for businesses to hire DOR consumer

• Employer keeps consumer on as an employee