E1MN Newsletter - September 2024
Hub Spotlight
YIT Toolkit Engage Families section
One of the guiding principles of Minnesota’s Youth in Transition Framework is that families play a key role in successful transition outcomes. It's important to engage families as partners and empower them with information. The Engage Families section of the Youth in Transition toolkit contains information, resources and tools to help you invite families into the process and engage them as a partner in their youth's transition and employment success.
Success Stories
Success Story: E1MN Collaboration
Read about how Kenny, a recent high school graduate and his team of professionals “paved the road to employment” through collaborative partnerships and work-based learning experiences. Kenny’s team used Minnesota’s Youth in Transition Framework and followed the youth planning process to help Kenny have a variety of work experiences that have set him up for successful, competitive employment in the future. Read the story here.
Events
MN APSE Lunch and Learn
Join MN APSE’s September Lunch & Learn about transportation resources, including ways to use waiver transportation to help meet employment needs. Sheila Holbrook-White, the Waiver Transportation Program Manager with the Metropolitan Transportation Services will be talking about their program, Metro Move, and how this has successfully helped people with transportation to and from work. This is a great opportunity for professional development at no cost to you or your staff. Managers – send your staff and subject matter experts will provide the training!
When: September 19th, 12pm-1pm
OSERS Collaboration to Improve Outcomes
Join the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for the third session in the 2023-2024 OSERS Symposium Series, Collaboration to Improve Outcomes. Join in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families. This symposium will focus on the importance of collaboration between special education and vocational rehabilitation to ensure the best outcomes for our youth with disabilities and their families.
When: September 12, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:30 pm Eastern
Transition TN Paraprofessionals Training
Students with extensive support needs (ESN) often benefit from the support of a staff member during community-based work experiences. Due to logistics and staffing, this role is often fulfilled by a paraprofessional (i.e., teacher’s assistant). In this capacity, paraprofessionals are essentially acting as a “job coach,” a central feature of supported employment for adults with disabilities. In this webcast, the presenter will share practical implications from research aimed at understanding paraprofessionals’ role in job coaching for students with ESN and how they are prepared to fulfill this role.
When: September 11, 2024, from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Central
MN APSE State Conference
The MN Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) annual conference is the state’s only conference focused solely on improving and expanding competitive, integrated employment outcomes for people with disabilities. It brings together roughly 100 providers, case managers, self-advocates, education professionals, and state agencies from across the state.
The 2024 annual conference will focus on best practices for high quality services, innovation and transformation initiatives, and Employment First policy and practices. Special focus includes insights learned from the Transformation to Competitive Wages and Employment Provider Transition grants and the E1MN interagency collaboration.
When: Thursday, October 10 from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Central
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