Thought Sauce: Foundational Readings and Customized Employment (NA1984)
Author(s): Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC & The Center for Social Capital, Inc.
Pre-Approved for: ACM, CA BRN, CCM, CDMS, CE Broker Provider, CLCP, CNLCP, COHN/COHN-S, CRC, Delaware BON, RNs, VRA-Canada
Credit Hours: 8
Course Format
This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.
Course Overview
This course is the presentation of the manual Thought Sauce:
Foundational Readings in Customized Employment. In this manual, you will be
presented with a Customized Employment Plan Design Guide for those who work
with clients with disabilities seeking employment. It includes a number of
tools for the job employment professional to use in their daily practice. This
text presents and explains in detail the process of Discovering Personal Genius
(DPG) which GHA (Griffin-Hammis Associates) developed for individuals with
significant disabilities. Also included
is a guide for self-employment for those with disabilities and considerations
for leadership roles going into the future.
Course Objectives
- Explain the process of customized employment
- List the steps needed in the process of Discovering Personal Genius
- Describe the Plan for Achieving Self Support or PASS and its effects on those with disabilities
- Debunk the myths regarding employment for students with disabilities.
- Compare and contrast the opportunities in large corporations and small businesses for those with disabilities.
- List the steps in assisting those with disabilities for self-employment.
- Describe the ten contradictions in re-thinking the role of leadership.
Course Outline
- Customized Employment Plan Guide
- The Three Vocational Themes
- Developing Vocational Themes Workbook
- Informational Interviews
- Plans for Achieving Self-Support
- Self-Employment Assessment
- Discovering Personal Genius (DPG) - Team Process Chart
- Discovering Personal Genius (DPG) Activities
- Sample DPG Staging Record
- Blank DPG Staging Record
- DPG Debriefing Guide
- Job Development Activity
- Social/Economic Capital Inventory
- Relationship Chart
- The Big Sign Syndrome
- Customized Employment Personal Sales Skills
- Informational Interviews Guide for Training Activity
- Customized Job Development Tactics for Tough Times
- The Dream Job Trap
- Self-Employment for Transition-Age Youth
- The Contradictions of Leadership: Ten Considerations for Leaders at all Levels
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