Training Calendar

Recruit, Cultivate and Retain (RCR) is a leadership series designed for mid-level managers working in employment and community inclusion service provider agencies. By joining RCR, you will have the opportunity to develop immediately usable skills for developing your own career and promoting increased job satisfaction for staff you manage. In community with other program managers, we will re-energize, create solutions to complex problems and share expertise.

Goals:

• Learn strategies for recruiting, developing and retaining staff
• Increase your leadership skills as a manager and leader
• Develop a plan for advancing your career
• Hone systems and processes for developing staff into leadership positions
• Connect with other leaders that are managing employment and day services
• Deepen and develop relationships across organizations in your community

For more information and to register go to https://www.gowise.org/home/training/rcr/

Our online course is for case managers and care coordinators supporting adults with disabilities and transition age youth on a path to employment.

Our course offers strategies to:

❖ enhance your career path

❖ increase your capacity to support individuals on an employment journey

This course fits your busy schedule. You can:

❖ Complete the course anywhere with internet access at your desk or on the go with a mobile device.

❖ Finish the whole course at once or in smaller pieces. Save your work and pick up where you left off using the course navigation.

This course is interactive and immersive.

❖ Take your time to reflect and analyze problems before answering the questions.

❖ Explore real-life scenarios, case studies, and stories and check your knowledge with quizzes.

❖ Download additional resources to continue studying over time.

COURSE CONTENT

(approximate time for completion: 5-6 hours)

Our course emphasizes the critical role case managers play in ensuring opportunities to experience competitive integrated employment.

Module 1: Employment Foundations

A positive vision for the future influences our desire to work. Learn about expectations, national perspectives, various types of paid employment, strategies for supporting families, and more.

Module 2: Employment Pathways

Informed choice is key to successful decision making. Learn about dignity of risk, individual voice, guided conversations around integrated employment, job satisfaction, and more.

Module 3: The Employment Process

Get to know the job seeker to help them find a good job match. Learn from self-advocates about advocacy, how to plan for job supports, customized jobs, employee retention, and more.

Module 4: Collaborating with Vocational Rehabilitation

Partnering with VR is mutually beneficial. Learn about defining employment pathways, VR application and eligibility processes, long term supports after job placement, and more.

This training is appropriate for case managers and their supervisors. You will earn a certificate after completing all the required work, which can be submitted for continuing professional development credits.

Reigstration opens on August 1, 2024

Self-determination, informed choice, and dignity of risk are integral components of effective and authentic person-centered employment planning for job seekers with intellectual disabilities. This free online course will include strategies and resources on how to support the development and inclusion of these components in employment services for people with disabilities.

The Self-Determination, Informed Choice, and Dignity of Risk course will be available 24/7 during the month of September so you can log on at your convenience and complete the work. The course has 2 hours’ worth of content. You will receive a letter of completion when you finish the course. You can use this letter for educator professional credits and employment staff professional development hours.

This course is for educators, employment specialists, career planners, and job coaches who assist people with disabilities to find and maintain jobs in the community.

No Registration Required- click on the link to join https://mainestate.zoom.us/j/84704209047?pwd=MUdhQXJOa21SbEtRVXBiTHlGbkZUUT09

Understanding your role in helping people explore and learn all about employment supports, businesses in Maine, jobs and how they can get started.

Contact Lisa Cline with questions lisa.cline@maine.gov

Statewide Conference on September 24 & 25, 2024 at The Bangor Grande, 357 Odlin Rd, Bangor, ME 04401.

Check their website for updates and registration information https://sufumaine.kindful.com/e/2024-sufu-conference

Contact Laurie Coldwell with any questions [lcoldwell@sufumaine.org
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UMF students can prepare for a career as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) with access to the University of Maine at Augusta’s Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Technician Certificate (SART).

This UMF/UMA collaboration makes preparing for the CADC exam simpler than ever Take up to 15 credits—of the 30 total required for UMA's SART Certificate—online or in person at UMF With your certificate, you can apply for Maine's Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) license.

Keynote Speaker: Gina Oswald, PhD, NBC-HWC. Yang Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, Cornell University

Panel and Presenter information coming soon...

To learn more about Maine APSE visit HTTPS://MAINEAPSE.WEEBLY.COM

No Registration Required. Click on the link to join the webinar https://mainestate.zoom.us/j/84704209047?pwd=MUdhQXJOa21SbEtRVXBiTHlGbkZUUT09

Hear examples from providers and share stories of networking and building partnerships.

Contact Lisa Cline with questions lisa.cline@maine.gov

If you’d like to help individuals with disabilities explore career options, prepare for careers, and support them by serving as a job coach, UMF’s Employment Specialist (ES) Certificate can help you get there—quickly.

Complete just TWO online courses, one of which is paid for by a grant Our flexible, virtual program helps you earn a nationally recognized certificate while continuing to work full- or part-time With your certificate, you'll be ready to start a new, highly marketable career that you can build on.

These are past recorded webinars. You will have access to all the recordings once you enroll. You can earn 1 hour of professional development if you watch the recording and complete the short quiz.

Here is a list of current topics:

Outcome orientated planning for transition age youth

Using a 30-Day Placement Plan

Developing Work-Based Learning Experiences for Students and Youth

Best Practices in Job Coaching and Supports

Strategies for Developing Job Opportunities in Maine’s Rural and Remote Communities

Technology to Support Employment

Cultural Humility to Improve the Quality of Services for Individuals with Disabilities

Initiatives and Resources for Individuals Considering Self Employment

OADs Self Employment Stories from Rhode Island

Using Progressive Employment

Supporting Challenging Behaviors in the Workplace

Technology Tools on the Job

Best Practices in Social Media

Practicing with Technology Tools

The Art of Disclosure

Creative Strategies for Showcasing Job Seekers: Beyond Traditional Resumes

Supporting Individuals with Complex Needs

This state and national-level conference will provide a chance to showcase innovations in delivery of services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities or autism as well as those with conditions such as cerebral palsy, or seizure disorder, or other similar conditions.

This conference will:

• Showcase local and national-level innovations and new thinking
• Explore how to manage change
• Feature a Tech Expo so attendees can see try out and learn about new technologies and resources

Schedule:

• Keynote speakers will be announced in the fall of 2024,
• A call for presentation proposals will be announced in September of 2024
• Conference registration is expected to open in January 2025.
• If you would like to be on the mailing list for potential presenters, vendors, or attendees, please email: HCBS.DHHS@maine.gov

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