Sessions in Building Blocks for Success Learning Track include:
Structuring Quality Employment Case Management: Best Practices from Transitional Jobs Programs
This session will review and discuss best practices in employment case management from around the country and provide a real world context from three Transitional Jobs programs. Particular attention will be paid to the structure of employment case management systems to facilitate and ensure participant success.
Facilitator:
Jim Klasen – Independent Consultant
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Presenter:
Marta Nelson – Director of Policy and Planning, Center for Employment Opportunities
Sheila Olson – Workforce Development Director, Employment Services, Goodwill Easter Seals - Minnesota
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Motivational Interviewing: Building Relationships To Facilitate Change (Part 1)
Why aren’t participants ready to work? Motivational interviewing is a directive, client centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. Compared with nondirective counseling, it is more focused and goal directed. It recognizes and accepts the fact that clients who need to make changes in their lives approach counseling at different levels of readiness to change their behavior. This session will offer an introduction to Motivational Interviewing as part of best practices in case management series for Transitional Jobs providers. The NTJN encourages you to attend both Part 1 and Part 2 of this session in order to learn and practice motivational interviewing techniques.
Facilitator:
Jim Klasen – Independent Consultant
Presenter:
Ed Stellon – Director of Resource and Community Development, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
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Motivational Interviewing: Building Relationships To Facilitate Change (Part 2)
This is the final installment in a two-part session focused on motivational interviewing, a directive, client centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. This approach recognizes and accepts the fact that clients who need to make changes in their lives approach counseling at different levels of readiness to change their behavior. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice the techniques they learned in Part 1. Unless already familiar with motivational interviewing, attendees must attend Part 1 in order to participate fully in this session.
Presenter:
Ed Stellon – Director of Resource and Community Development, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
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Best Practices in Job Development: Structure, Process, & How to Get to Know Your Employer Partners (Roundtable Discussion)
Job development is critically important in any quality Transitional Jobs program. The process of having a great job development staff structure, of engaging employer partners, and of building solid relationships with employers takes time, energy, thought, and often comes with headaches and some mistakes. This session is designed with the job adeveloper and manager in mind and will offer opportunities to engage with each other and an expert in Transitional Jobs job development. Bring your ideas, questions, and be ready to talk candidly about your experiences in job development.
Facilitator:
Lori Sterner – Workforce Development Manager, Placement, Goodwill Easter Seals - Minnesota
Best Practices in Employer Engagement: How Transitional Jobs Programs are Tapping into Emerging Industry & Good Jobs
This is a skill building session, which will review and discuss best practices around the country related to employer engagement and community partnerships to foster job development. An emphasis will be placed on how Transitional Jobs programs identify emerging industries and structure their planning and outreach to employers to ensure that their program is meeting the economic demands of communities while fulfilling the employment needs and interests of Transitional Jobs program participants.
Presenters:
Martin Shimko – Branch President, US Bank
Kelly Matter – Vice President, Mission Services, Goodwill Easter Seals - Minnesota
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Kelly Lindseth – Office of Financial Management, Washington State
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Best Practices in Job Development: Speaking the Language of Employers
This session is designed to build skills for job developers and administrators who want to refine the way in which they communicate with current and potential employer partners. Conference participants will learn about best practices in approaching and talking to business partners and what research and advocacy efforts around the country are yielding regarding this issue.
Presenters:
Sheryl Holman – Chief Executive Officer, Community Assistance Programs
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Jennifer Keeling – Senior Policy Associate, Chicago Jobs Council
Using the Radar Approach to Job Retention
Larry Robbin will teach conference participants how to structure effective job retention strategies beginning with the pre-employment through the placement phases. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding the “quitting process” for program participants as a way to develop better retention strategies.
Presenter:
Larry Robbin – Executive Director, Robbin and Associates
