Webinar: Thursday, February 8, 2024, 9 a.m.
Please join the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions at Rutgers School of Health Professions for a monthly call to enhance quality supported employment services in Washington State.
Assisting job seekers with identifying and developing natural supports is an essential task in the provision of career services. During this month’s call, participants will identify the role of family members and other natural supports in supported employment services. We will review different strategies of how to take the job seeker’s lead in assisting to engage family members and others in the job search and ongoing employment supports. As always, we will review this past month’s success and challenges for feedback and support.
Objectives:
- Describe the role of family and natural supports in career services.
- Identify strategies to engage family and other natural supports.
- Review this month’s job development successes and challenges.
Community call: Thursday, February 8, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Join Advocates for Human Potential and DBHR's Foundational Community Supports Supportive Housing training team for a new monthly learning community call. This call is solely designed for agencies and staff who are interested in the Supportive Housing fidelity review process and want to learn and engage in the fidelity review community. This will provide a space for call participants to discuss concerns, problem-solve, continue education on the dimension of fidelity, and celebrate the successes of their programs.
This first in the series will be a kick-off meeting in which we will discuss why fidelity to an evidence-based practice matters, what kind of data should be collected and why, the power of bringing peer agencies together and more.
Webinar: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 3 p.m.
Please join Dawn and Emilie from Rutgers' University for a monthly learning call to enhance your skills and knowledge in delivering supportive housing services.
Housing skills are essential to maintaining tenancy in SH and increasing community tenure. In this webinar, we will review the importance of identifying housing preferences, housing skills assessments, and matching those preferences and skills deficits to adequate supports. Materials will be introduced that can be used with individuals served in the inpatient, shelter, or group home settings that can begin to build motivation for housing success.
Takeaways:
- Identify the importance of housing preferences and skills assessment prior to tenancy
- Review housing skills self-assessment for use in supportive housing tenancy and identify appropriate supports through group interaction
- Review tools for Moving On materials
Webinar: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 8:30 a.m.
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of supported employment for people with a serious mental illness. IPS supported employment helps people living with behavioral health conditions work at regular jobs of their choosing. Although variations of supported employment exist, IPS refers to the evidence-based practice of supported employment.
Where does Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) fit into the Supported Employment - IPS model? Disability does not discriminate. There is no race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or culture that does not have members with disabilities. But often, disability is excluded from conversations about diversity.
In this session, facilitated by Advocates for Human Potential, we will highlight the challenges and success of DEI in Supported Employment and IPS using a DEI lens that includes not only race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, but also disability and how to effectively support people in your programs, including staff and their supervisors.
Webinar: Thursday, February 22, 2024, 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
When it comes to supporting our community's most vulnerable, it takes a village to wrap around people and to walk alongside them to ensure their needs are met. But what makes the difference between having a team of allies in your corner versus too many cooks in the kitchen? Join us for this interactive webinar to learn more about how to recognize needs and opportunities for community partnerships, what types of community partnerships bring leveraged and maximized support to a participant’s toolbelt, and what you can do to make it all happen! This webinar will include a brief presentation of information and general strategies for partnership and will also leave plenty of space for real-time consultation and troubleshooting attendees’ own barriers with partnership and what might be done to move past them.
Objectives/Takeaways:
- Learn to define “Community Partnership” through the lens of what roles and services would meet a participant’s needs.
- Understand how to step into a leadership space in facilitating communication between partners, no matter your role or title.
- Identify different types of community partners and partnership forms and styles.
- Consult with Subject Matter Experts in building community partnerships to workshop real-time examples and solutions you and your organization have faces in building meaningful partnerships.
Maureen Maples is the newest addition to the FCS Team. She will be taking over the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) contract Scott has carefully tended up to this point. Maureen worked on the federally funded Cares Act Treasury Rent Assistance Program (T-RAP) and state funded Emergency Rental Assistance Program (E-RAP) at the Department of Commerce.
Most recently, she was managing the Solar plus Storage for Resilient Communities program with a $74 million biennial budget. Maureen interned with the Bread and Roses Advocacy Center, Needle Exchange and CrimethINC as an undergrad which ignited an awareness of and passion for harm reduction. In 2017, Maureen earned a second degree from Evergreen, her MPA. She then served with Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia.
In her free time, Maureen likes to garden, cook, knit, crochet, make assemblage art and enjoy all the beauty Washington has to offer.
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