Planning the Transition to Employment

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-59857-358-9
Verlag: Brookes Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Transition to Adulthood

The latest book in the Brookes Transition to Adulthood Series, this is a practical handbook for helping youth with disabilities transition into integrated, competitive employment alongside their peers, providing advice ranging from career planning and preparation to the job search and sustaining employment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parent-Johnson, Wendy

Owens, Laura A

Parent-Johnson, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface
Editorial Advisory Board
About the Authors
Preface
About the Downloads
Acknowledgments

1 Getting Started
- Transition to Employment
- Importance of Work
- What Do the Statistics Say?
- Changing the Landscape of Disability and Employment
- Upcoming Chapters

2 Strategies to Facilitate Effective Transitions
- Teacher Vignette
- The Crucial Importance of Collaboration
- Grow Your Own Collective Impact Team
- Collective Impact: A Practical Application
- Integrating Best Practices

3 How Do We Plan for Employment, Support Self -Directed Team Meetings, and Encourage Adult Agency Involvement - Teacher/Transition Coordinator Vignette
- Planning for Employment
- Ready and Reliable
- Employment First
- Why Is Person-Centered Planning Important?

4 How Do We Develop Skills, Identify Passions, and Explore Careers? - Teacher/Transition Coordinator Vignette
- Developing High School Services
- Identifying Learning Styles and Preferences
- Utilizing Online Career Exploration Tools
- Providing Community Work and Internship
- Opportunities
- Establishing Employment or Post-Secondary Education Areas of Interest

5 Developing Employer Relationships to Develop Job Opportunities - Teacher/Transition Coordinator Vignette
- Competitive Integrated Employment
- Knowing the Business Community
- Business Knowledge
- Networking
- Meeting with Employers
- Employment Proposals
- Preparing Students for Employment Through Work-Based Learning or Internships
- Partnership Agreement
- Worksite Analysis
- Intern Criteria and Job Description
- Application and Interview Process
- Orientation and Training
- Evaluation Process

6 Providing Training and Supports While in School and After - Teacher/Transition Coordinator Vignette
- Teaching Self-Determination
- Identifying Instructional Strategies and Support
- Instructional Strategies
- Natural Supports

7 Ways to Overcome the Yeah, but. Syndrome - Student Vignette
- Case Studies
- Challenges That Teachers Face

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Parent, Ph.D., is Research Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, a Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at The University of Kansas. She has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of supported and customized employment and transition from school to work for individuals with severe disabilities.

Dr. Parent has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles related to transition and supported/customized employment and has coauthored several books on supported employment. In her efforts to build systems capacity and enhance employment and self-employment outcomes, she provides training and technical assistance to teachers, transition coordinators, families, rehabilitation counselors, job coaches, and individuals with disabilities. She is currently the president of the Kansas Rehabilitation Association and Kansas Association for Persons on Supported Employment (APSE): The Network on Employment and serves on the national Boards of the APSE Foundation and the National Rehabilitation Association. She serves on the editorial board of two journals: Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities and the Journal of Rehabilitation. Her areas of interest and research are supported/customized employment and transition from school to work for individuals with severe disabilities, with an emphasis on creative funding and support strategies, individual and family involvement, job-coach training and leadership, interagency collaboration and service delivery issues, and systems change.