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Let’s Get to Work How Six Degrees Applies to Employment

Let’s Get to Work How Six Degrees Applies to Employment. Beth Swedeen, Jenny Neugart, Holmen High School Students & Staff Wisconsin Self-Determination Conference October, 2013 * Wisconsin Dells, WI . Session Overview. Let’s Get to Work Project Components Holmen High School Experiences

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Let’s Get to Work How Six Degrees Applies to Employment

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  1. Let’s Get to Work How Six Degrees Applies to Employment Beth Swedeen, Jenny Neugart, Holmen High School Students & Staff Wisconsin Self-Determination Conference October, 2013 * Wisconsin Dells, WI

  2. Session Overview • Let’s Get to Work Project Components • Holmen High School Experiences • Factors that Lead to Better Employment Outcomes • What You Can Do

  3. Project framework includes all stakeholders • School staff • Service agencies: voc rehab, long-term care, state education • Students • Families • Self-advocates • Broader community • Legislators

  4. Four project components • Statewide consortium • Pilot schools • On-site coaches • Policy team

  5. Consortium’s Role • Input from key stakeholders on what works and doesn’t work and what policies to change or improve. • Updates from schools and state agencies on project progress. • Includes youth track, particularly to build self-determination.

  6. Pilot Schools • 9 schools throughout the state (Kewaunee County schools, Manitowoc, Grafton, West Allis/West Milwaukee, Oconomowoc, Stoughton, Holmen, New Auburn, Rhinelander) • Looked for interest/ability to work on inclusion and community employment. • Committed to working on some • promising practices

  7. Practices: • Person-centered planning • School/community mapping of opportunities • Connection to general education and co-curricular activities • Summer paid/volunteer community-based jobs • Early connection to DVR • Engaging broader community through a Community Conversation • School learning circle/community of practice to learn from each other

  8. Schools Also Developed Their own Creative Approaches to Engaging with their Communities Holmen Grafton http://youtu.be/2ysq3AYANaA http://youtu.be/M0rMo-uaQqI Stoughton http://youtu.be/kd3YlOLwHPY

  9. Jobs First! of Manitowoc County

  10. Coaches • On-site supporters/cheerleaders/practitioners who show school staff how to try new practices • Provide resources and direct instruction training • Connect them to other professional development, training and resources

  11. Policy Team • Members • What it does

  12. What Leads to Better Employment Outcomes • Earlier work experiences while still in high school • Increased expectations that youth will work • Earlier connection to vocational rehabilitation • Reduced entry for youth into • segregated work settings

  13. Better Employment Outcomes Continued • Better transition training for teachers • Person centered planning to identify interests, strengths, skills • Access to general education core/academic classes and extra-curricular activities as they relate to the students’ interests and career goals

  14. Better Employment Outcomes Continued • Engage the broader community in discussions of youth employment • Connect students and their families to information on post-secondary and career options, work incentives benefits counseling and community activities, starting no later than age 15. • Access to transportation to get to work

  15. Helpful Resources • www.letsgettoworkwi.org • www.wiyouthfirst.org • http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dvr/ • www.wsti.org • http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/P0/p00516.pdf

  16. Beth Swedeen, Executive Director WI Board for People with Developmental Disabilities beth.swedeen@wisconsin.gov Jenny Neugart, Let’s Get to Work Project Coordinator UW Madison Waisman Center Jennifer.neugart@wisconsin.gov

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