Accessible Formats

What is Accessible Format—Describes the most commonly requested accessible formats, who they are used by, their purpose, and their average cost. Resources for obtaining materials in accessible formats is also reviewed.

Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology—This presentation includes the definition of assistive technology and general information about various types of assistive technology that might be used in the Job Corps environment. Suggested assistive technology resources are also included.

Assistive Technology—This presentation includes a brief discussion of relevant legislation, an overview of the types of technology most likely to be used in the Job Corps environment, as well as some suggested assistive technology resources.

Practical Uses of Assistive Technology for Individuals with LD and/or ADD—This training was developed by Mayda LaRosse and Kendra Duckworth, Human Factors Consultants for the Job Accommodation Network. The presentation was developed for an assistive technology conference, but has appropriate information for Job Corps staff on practical uses of assistive technology for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.

Awareness/Etiquette

Disability Sensitivity—Provide information on disability awareness and etiquette. Could be used as an all staff training or as a required training for new staff.

Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Center—These trainings included information on disability awareness and etiquette.

Building Partnerships

Job Accommodation Network and Other Resources —This presentation focuses on the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) and how JAN can help center and contractor staff solve accommodation and other disability-related issues. The information and services available from several other disability organizations and agencies is also described.

Regional Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTAC)—This presentation provides information about DBTACs, who they serve, what they do, and what services they provide.

JAN & Job Corps: Working Hand-In-Hand—This presentation provides information on how JAN can help Job Corps staff by providing accommodation ideas and ADA information.

Common Disabilities

Common Disabilities in the Job Corps Population—This presentation highlights the most common affective and cognitive disabilities among the Job Corps population, psychiatric disorders (with a focus on mood disorders), learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Educating Employers

Educating Employers and Transition for Job Corps Participants with Disabilities—These presentations provide information on how to educate employers about hiring workers with disabilities.

Emergency Procedures

Inclusive Emergency Procedures—This presentation provides guidelines for developing emergency/safety plans that consider the needs of people with disabilities. Included in the session are a discussion of general guidelines for developing an inclusive plan, guidelines for specific disabilities, and resource information.

Integrating Safety Into the Disability Initiative—This training was presented at the 2002 National Safety and Health Conference and contains information on integrating safety into the disability initiative.

General

Alpha Training—This presentation provides information on the Job Corps Disability Initiative, reasonable accommodation (including the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process and the reasonable accommodation activities that can occur during each phase of CDSS), and information on how to connect students with disabilities to the support services they need to stay employed and live independently.

CDD training: Overview, Documentation, Admissions Counselor's Disability-Related Responsibilities—This training provides information for CDDs on the disability initiative, how/where to collect information to document a disability, and disability-related information that should be provided to disability coordinators by admission's counselors.

Creating an Inclusive Center Environment (Alpha Training 2004)—This presentation discusses the required components of a center disability program, introduces Job Corps disability program principles, describes challenges of the disability program, and contains case scenarios of applications to the Job Corps program.

Disability Coordinator Orientation Part 1—The presentation is highlights the Process of file review, handling denials, IDT and the reasonable accommodation process.

Disability Coordinator Orientation Part 2—This the second of a two part training series focused on the role of the disability coordinator on center. Part 2 focuses on PRH requirements, seeking partnerships with the community and other important resources.

Disability Initiative Training: Leave No Trainee Behind—This training provides detailed information about the reasonable accommodation process and describes the role of the Disability Coordinator, Center Director, and Regional Office in the disability initiative. Disability-related questions that will be asked by reviewers during center assessments are also discussed.

Disability Initiative Training for Admissions Counselors—This presentation was developed to provide admissions counselors with an overview of the disability initiative, a review of PRH-1, and information about the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process.

Disability Initiative Training for Center Directors—This presentation was developed to provide center directors with an overview of the disability initiative, suggestions for preparing centers to better serve students with disabilities, and information about the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process.

Disability Initiative Training for Center Staff—This training was developed to provide center staff with general information about the disability legislation, the Job Corps Disability Initiative, reasonable accommodation, and the components of a center disability program.

Disability Initiative and CDSS Training—This training was conducted at a regional CDSS training. It provides general information about the disability initiative and discusses reasonable accommodation in the context of CDSS. The information is AC focused, but some information on center staff roles is provided.

Disability Initiative and CDSS Training 2—This training briefly describes the role of the AC, center director and career transition staff in the disability initiative.

Disability Initiative for Health and Wellness Managers—This training for health and wellness managers covers accommodation, components of center disability program, and disability-related questions asked during center assessments.

Leave No Student Behind: Meeting the Student's Individual Needs—Staff and students from the Phoenix Job Corps center developed this presentation for the National Health and Wellness Conference. Information on how they developed a successful disability program and staff roles in the program are provided.

Getting Started: What Can Help to Make It Easier—This presentation provides time saving strategies for Disability Coordinators who are just getting started. Topics discussed include creating a center disability team, tracking accommodations, folder review, and compliance.

Be a Super Disability Coordinator: Time Management Strategies—This presentation provides time saving strategies for Disability Coordinators who have a program in place. Topics covered include developing a routine, choosing multidisciplinary team members, staff training, and keeping statistics.

Supporting the Disability Initiative—This presentation provides information on the health and wellness manager's and disability coordinator's role in the disability initiative, practical advice on how health staff can support the initiative, time management techniques for health staff, and stress the importance of working as a team to create an inclusive environment on center.

Videos Featuring Youth with Disabilities Sharing Their Success Strategies—The New England ADA Center and No Limits Media have released informative videos featuring students with disabilities sharing their strategies for successfully staying in school, graduating and getting jobs. Students reveal their struggles with self-reporting their disability, and negotiating accommodations in school and at work. These videos can be used as part of trainings (each video is 7-9 minutes) and shared with students and other professionals.

What's the 411 on IEPs?—This presentation provides information on accommodations, modifications, 504 plans, Job Corps accommodation plans, and monitoring progress.

Who is a Person with a Disability?—This presentation discusses the legal definition of a disability, conditions which may be considered a disability, conditions that are not considered disabilities, and offers tips for entering disability data in CIS.

Inclusive Environments

Inclusion: Making the Pieces Fit and Creating Inclusive Environments—The presenters for this session are people who have initiated efforts to make their environments more inclusive of people with disabilities. They will share their experiences working with students with disabilities and offer practical advice/tips to other Job Corps staff and contractors who are beginning to make their environment more inclusive of people with disabilities.

Interdisciplinary Approach

Developing a Center Disability Program—This presentation, developed for HWMs and CDDs, offers tip on how to streamline the accommodation process and develop a team approach to meeting the needs of student's with disabilities.

Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) Individual Program Plan (IPP) —The IDT presentation explores how some students with disabilities may need support from an IDT of services providers. The IDT is responsible for reviewing the accommodation request at the center level as well as the development of a written IPP for students who are accommodated within Job Corps. This presentation includes a discussion of the formulation of the IDT and its functions and responsibilities along with the process associated with the development of an IPP.

Note: Information previously included in IPPs can now be included in the PCDP; separate IPPs are no longer required.

Learning Disabilities

2002 Academic Conference, Learning Disabilities Presentation 1, Presentation 2, Presentation 3—Session covered many topics including Job Corps/JAN partnership, resources for students with learning disabilities, learning styles, inclusive classroom strategies, and classroom accommodations.

Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder—This introductory training on learning disabilities and AD/HD would be appropriate as an all staff or new staff training.

Learning Disabilities, Learning Styles, and Inclusive Strategies—This presentation was developed for Disability Coordinators attending the 2003 National Health and Wellness Conference. This training provides information on learning disabilities, learning styles, and learning strategies, and testing accommodations.

Learning Disabilities: Tools for the Classroom and the Center—This presentation provides information on understanding LD, and tangible and intangible tools available to the center.

Learning Styles—The health and wellness manager at the Phoenix JCC and a representative from the center's partner charter school gave this presentation which defines learning styles, discusses learning styles inventories, and offers teaching strategies for different types of learners.

Making the Classroom Inclusive—The health and wellness manager at the Phoenix JCC and a representative from the center's partner charter school gave this presentation on inclusive strategies for the classroom.

Legislation

Overview of Legislation—This presentation discusses section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the nondiscrimination and equal opportunity provisions of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 in the context of the regulations that implement those laws. Job Corps' obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 will also be discussed.

Outreach and Admissions

Center Folder Review Process (Boston)—The training provides information on the application process, application review process, medical record review, interactive interview, and making a decision

Center Folder Review Process (Dallas)—The training provides information on the application process, application review process, medical record review, interactive interview, and making a decision

Disability Documentation: Admissions Counselor's Role —The training provides information on the admissions counselor's role in collecting documentation of an applicant's disability. It includes information on PRH-1, collecting data for the ETA 6-53, documentation of prior accommodations and promising practices.

Disability Initiative Training for Admissions Counselors—This training provides information on the disability initiative, disability-related responsibilities in PRH-1, and the ACs role in the reasonable accommodation process.

Outreach and Admissions: Your Role in Disability (webinar)—This presentation provides information on the role of the OA staff within the disability process.

Overcoming Fear of Losing Benefits—This presentation discusses the fears many applicants with disabilities have about the effect participation in the Job Corps program will have on any benefits they are receiving.

Preparing Your Center

Center Director Training—This training, developed for Center Directors, provides information on the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process and how to create a model center disability program.

Creating a Center Disability Program—This presentation covers the components of a center disability program.

Preparing Your Center to Better Serve Students with Disabilities—This session explains the steps each center should take to better serve students with disabilities. Included are discussions on how to prepare the center (physical access and programs), center staff, students, and employers to serve students with disabilities.

Accommodating Students—This training provides general information about providing reasonable accommodation, accommodation scenarios, and explains the concept of universal design of learning.

Factors for Consideration in File Review and Reasonable Accommodation for Students with Cognitive Needs—This training provides information on file review, legal issues and requirements, the role of the CMHC, accommodation plans, and factors for consideration.

Integrating Safety into the Disability Initiative—This training provides safety officers with information on reasonable accommodation, their role in the process, and offers tips for developing an inclusive safety plan.

Normative Culture Conference—This presentation was created for social development staff. Topics covered include basic information about the reasonable accommodation process, accessing accommodation information in CIS, and Job Corps disability resource information.

Reasonable Accommodation—This presentation was developed for Disability Coordinators attending the National Health and Wellness Conference. Topics discussed include the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) and JAN’s Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR). Job Corps accommodation examples and case studies are provided.

Reasonable Accommodation for Alcoholism and Chemical Dependency—This presentation provides information on alcoholism and chemical dependency as disabilities and provides ideas for accommodating each disability.

Reasonable Accommodation (Center Focus)—The session will summarize the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process. The focus of the discussion will be on the roles and responsibilities of the Center Director's designee in this process.

Reasonable Accommodation (OAP Focus)—This session will summarize the Job Corps reasonable accommodation process. The focus of discussion will be on the roles and responsibilities of OAP staff in this process.

Reasonable Accommodation and TEAP—This presentation provides information on disability accommodation in the decision-making process regarding admission criteria for applicants with a drug or alcohol history; medical separations and the relationship between the PRH and civil rights laws as they pertain to students with a drug or alcohol history is also addressed.

Transition

Career Transition Staff Disability Training—Provides information on role of career transition staff in disability initiative.