Current and Upcoming E-Learnings

Customized Employment

Customized Employment is individualizing the employment relationship between employees and employers in ways that meet the needs of both. A person centered approach to employment that is based on the individual’s strengths, needs, and interests. A blend of services designed to increase employment options for individuals with significant disabilities. This course has fours lessons:

• Lesson I: Customized Employment
• Lesson II: Linking and Negotiating with Employers
• Lesson III: Customer Service
• Lesson IV: Case Studies

Interviewing and Hiring People with Disabilities

The learning objectives for this course are:

• Describe the legal framework for interviewing and hiring people with disabilities.
• Identify appropriate techniques for conducting an employment interview with people with disabilities.
• Explain the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for pre-employment testing and processing of employment applications.
• Describe the major employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Give examples of reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities.
• Identify obstacles to workplace accessibility and recognize appropriate remedies.

Mental Health & The Recovery Model: An Introduction

This course introduces the principles and practices of recovery as a model for providing services to individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Upon completion of the course, the learner should be able to:

• Summarize key principles and practices of the recovery model.
• Contrast the recovery model of mental illness with the medical model.
• Explain the key concepts of the recovery model’s view of the relationship between the practitioner and the person in recovery.
• Self-assess the degree of internalization of recovery model values and language.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply recovery model values and concepts when interacting with a person in recovery.
• Use recovery focused language.

Mental Health & The Recovery Model: Practitioner's Guide

This course is offered as a guide for mental health practitioners interested in adopting the principles and practices of the recovery model in their work with people with psychiatric disabilities. Upon completion of the course, the learner should be able to:

• Explain the key concepts of the recovery model’s view of the relationship between the practitioner and a person in recovery.
• Integrate recovery model principles and practices and client assessments into your practice.
• Formulate recovery based services and interventions by:
  • Identifying ways to address client issues and barriers using recovery model principles and practices.
  • Assessing interventions and services for conformity to recovery model principles and practices.
• Complete a self-assessment of conformity to recovery model principles and practices.

Motivational Interviewing

• Lesson I: Change
• Lesson II: Principles of Motivational Interviewing
• Lesson III: Building Motivation for Change
• Lesson IV: Committing to Change
• Lesson V: Motivational Interviewing Skill Code

Social Security Work Incentives

This course gives an overview of both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) work incentives.

• Lesson I: SSI and SSDI Work Incentives
• Lesson II: Case Studies

SSI Calculation Worksheet: a customized, web-based application.

• This worksheet can be used by service providers working with individuals with disabilities to help estimate the impact of beneficiary income (earned and unearned) on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. The program also calculates the effect of Social Security work incentives on SSI benefit payments.

SSDI Calculation Worksheet: a customized, web-based application

• This worksheet can be used by service providers working with individuals with disabilities to help estimate the impact of beneficiary income (earnings) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. The program also calculates the effect of Social Security work incentives on SSDI benefit payments.