Career Exploration, Development and Planning for Consumers w/ SMI

Webinar

Date:
Thursday: February 2, 2012

Time: 1.0 hour

Presenters:

  • Charlie Bernacchio
    Assistant Professor, Coordinator Rehabilitation Counseling - University of Southern Maine
  • Eileen Burker
    Associate Professor/Director, Rehabilitation Counseling & Psychology- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moderator

  • Jill Houghton
    TACE Southeast, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University

Materials & Resources


How to View the Webinar Recording

The recording of this webinar is in Elluminate, a cross-platform and low-bandwidth program used by the Southeast TACE to ensure our online training experience is positive and accessible to everyone.

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Description:

**This is the fourth webinar in the TACE Improving Employment Outcomes for Individuals with Mental Health Disabilities Learning Community Series

During this webinar, participants will gain knowledge of career planning and employment training, as well as learn about benefits retention, disclosure and in vivo assessment.

Topics include:

  • Screening and assessing for work- situational assessment
  • Exploring work/career interests (benefit of temporary and part time work experience)
  • Career development, developing connections and identifying job opportunities
  • Plan for benefit retention (Employment Related Work Expense (ERWE), Plan to Achieve Self Support (PASS), & Medicaid)
  • Q&A- participant discussion

Objectives & Outcomes

The expected outcome for this event is gaining knowledge of exploring work options, career planning, and employment training, as well as learning about benefits retention, disclosure and ongoing assessment/support.



Materials & Resources

Recording of Webinar

**NOTE: If this is your first time using Elluminate, review: How to View the Recording of the Webinar.

Transcript


NOTE: This is the rough unedited version of the transcript

PowerPoint Presentation




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Southeast TACE
Toll-Free: (866) 518-7750 [voice/tty]
Email: tacesoutheast@law.syr.edu

Project of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University
Funded by U.S. Dept. of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), Grant# H264A080021.