SW 644: Issues in Developmental Disabilities Vocational and Day Services: Part I

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SW 644 Issues in Developmental
DisabilitiesVocational and Day Services Part I

• Lecture Presenter
• Lou Brown, Ph.D.

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Video of Lou Brown
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Integrative Employment Services

• Why Are Integrative Employment Services
  Necessary?
• Demographic shifts
• Societal Equal Rights Movement

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Integrated Supported Employment Services in Dane
County

• How Were Integrated Supported Employment Services
  Initiated in Dane County?
• School-based, Madison efforts in 1969
• Parental expectations shift of employment
  opportunities
• Vignette of Olsen family experience
• Discussion of how Eric Olsen received employment
  training in school

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Video of Olsen Family
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Integrated Supported Employment Services in Dane
County (cont.)

• How Were Integrated Supported Employment Services
  Initiated in Dane County?
• Collaborative efforts with school and county
  administrators
• Madison schools hiring of transition specialists
• County shift to financially support more
  supported employment agencies

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Video of Tom Schroeder
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Description of the Hodan Center

• Philosophical shift from a sheltered to an
  integrative work focus
• How the Hodan Center initiated supported
  employment services
• Overview of the Hodan Centers supported
  employment programs
• Description of the Hodan Centers Dairy Queen
  business
• Vignettes of Dennis and Norma working at Dairy
  Queen

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Video of Dairy Queen
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Key Components of a Successful Supported
Employment Program

• Natural proportions
• Development of natural supports in the workplace
• Partial participation

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Marketing, Administration, and Delivery

• How Are Supported Employment Services Marketed,
  Administered and Delivered?
• Problem of stereotyping work sites for supported
  employment
• Need to educate business leaders on the
  vocational need of persons with disabilities

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Video of Susan Kidder
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Marketing, Administration, and Delivery (cont.)

• How Are Supported Employment Services Marketed,
  Administered and Delivered?
• Selling to employers on how supported employment
  can meet their labor needs
• Business difficulties with high turnover jobs
• Meeting labor needs for high repetition, low
  skill jobs
• Understanding the employment needs of big versus
  small business
• Vignette of a Wal-Mart employee

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Video of Wayne Ford