• Pre-employment Transition Services: Implementation Efforts, Successes and Challenges in Minnesota and Idaho – The purpose of this webinar is to help viewers develop an understanding of the Pre-employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) requirements as outlined in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). It also highlights successes and challenges in Minnesota's and Idaho's Pre-ETS implementation efforts and discusses how lessons learned can aid other states in their implementation efforts.
  • Expanding Partnerships: Career Pathways, Opportunities and Challenges – A team from the District of Columbia highlight their joint initiatives to ensure that Employment First efforts extend to career pathways partners, including the development of cross-system memoranda of understandings (MOU). These MOU's are formal agreements that support the inclusion of youth and adults with disabilities, including people with behavioral health disabilities, into programs that open doors to high-demand and high-growth careers.
  • Providing Virtual Employment Supports Part One: Job Connection and Coaching – This webinar addresses virtual delivery of job development services. It briefly reviews strategies and tools that effectively increase interaction over technology and then explains the importance of virtual meeting templates, mental health checks, training on technology tools, job development notebooks and video resumes.
  • Providing Virtual Employment Supports Part Two: Job Development – Part two continues the discussion of providing virtual services, but this time, focusing on job coaching. This webinar provides an overview of person-driven accommodation tools that can increase independence. Additionally, presenters discuss Work Autonomy, an app aimed to strengthen the employer-employee relationship. An interactive question and answer session closes the webinar.
  • Applying WIOA Pre-ETS for Transitioning Students and Youth – WIOA represents a significant change in how state vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs interact with schools and offer services to students and youth preparing to transition to adult employment. This webinar provides information on the current state of Pre-ETS implementation in the country.
  • The Implications of WIOA for Seamless Transition for Youth with Significant Disabilities – This webinar discusses activities that have proven to contribute to successful and seamless transitions from school to adult employment. A particular focus is on the new Pre-ETS under WIOA and the enhanced role of workforce development youth services.
  • Ohio's Implementation of WIOA Section 511 Requirements – The implementation of Section 511 sets the expectation that youth and adults with disabilities should have opportunities to pursue competitive integrated employment (CIE) and employment should be considered in every person-centered plan. This webinar provides information on the current state of Section 511 implementation in the country.
  • Ticket to Work and Employment Networks – This webinar gives a background of Ticket to Work (TTW), the process of becoming an Employment Network (EN), pros and cons of being an EN and the benefits to ticket holders (SSA beneficiaries) while participating in the program.
  • Putting it to Practice: Building School to Work Programs – In alignment with WIOA's emphasis on Pre-ETS, this webinar focuses on youth and employment programs that provide services leading to employment. It discusses School-to-Work (STW) transition models and curriculum that prepare students for CIE.
  • WIOA and Business Engagement: Making it a Reality – This webinar explains a variety of considerations and strategies to better engage both private and public employers in a systematic fashion.