The Network on EmploymentLeadership in Challenging Times

10th Annual Missouri Employment SummitAugust 10th, 11th & 12th, 2011

Conference Program

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”-John Quincy Adams

Featured SpeakersTOM GOLDEN

Thomas P. Golden is the Associate Director of the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) in the ILR School at Cornell University. He has been on faculty since 1991 with his practice, research, teaching and publication focusing to date in four primary areas:

social insurance policy and its relation to return to work and greater economic independence and self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities who receive public

benefits and entitlements; national and global disability and employment policy; transition planning for secondary education students with disabilities to live, learn and

earn in their communities; and, organizational development, transformation and systems change with an emphasis on facilitating diverse and inclusive communities.

CATHY NEWTONFormer educator, coach, Wellness Coordinator, and NFL Kansas City Chiefs

Cheerleader, Cathy Newton inspires people to get in the full swing of risk taking for personal growth and encourages organizations to build a risk taking culture. Through

her interactive and insightful presentations, Cathy inspires audiences to stretch themselves farther --handling performance challenges, leadership, or organizational

change with confidence.

Cathy is the author of three books: Living in Full Swing, RISK IT, and It Takes Character.

About the Summit: APSE-Missouri, The Network on Employment, is bringing you the 11th Annual Missouri Employment Summit. This conference is designed to bring together people with disabilities, family members, employers, employment providers, VR counselors, Special Education/Transition personnel, service coordinators, funding agencies and others committed to increasing community employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The Summit features national and local speakers who will share cutting edge best practice information and strategies designed to support career development for people with disabilities.

About Employment University: Employment University (EU) is relatively new to the APSE-MO Annual Employment Summit. EU offers a strand of courses to those relatively new to fully inclusive employment. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about best practices. EU sessions will start with the Foundations of Employment and continue all the way through supporting people on the job. For an additional fee of $20, selected participants will learn from national leaders in the field of employment. Small class sizes will support interactive activities and discussions. Participants will also receive an Employment University manual and certificate of completion.

EU is limited to only 20 participants who are required to attend all of the EU courses to receive their certificate of completion. EU courses are held on August 10 th and the morning of August 11th. APSE-MO strongly encourages you to review the courses listed in the program and register soon to secure your spot!

Location: Stoney Creek Inn 2601 S. Providence Rd., Columbia, Mo 65203573-442-6400Registration & Fees: Advanced registration is required. Registrations accepted until August 5, 2011. This will help avoid unnecessary delays upon your arrival

at the conference. If your registration is postmarked by July 18, 2011 you will save $20.00 on your registration fee!!! Register early and save. Purchase orders will be accepted, however, there will be a $5.00 charge per purchase order.

Waiver of Registration Fee: There are a limited number of waivers of full registration fees for persons with disabilities and non-professional family members. These are awarded on a first come, first served basis. Please indicate on the registration and you will be contacted regarding acceptance.

Meals: If you require a vegetarian meal or have special dietary restrictions, please indicate this on the registration form. We cannot guarantee any requests for low carb meals.

Lodging: Participants should make their own hotel reservations at: Stoney Creek Inn Columbia, Mo 65203 573-442-6400. The hotel is holding a limited room block for APSE-MO Employment Summit attendees until July 23rd. After this date, rooms will be reserved on a space available basis only. The room rate is $91 + tax per night (single/double).

Refunds: We are unable to provide refunds for registration fees due to costs incurred by hosting this conference. However, we will glady accept substitutions for those registrants who cannot attend.

Wednesday, August 10th 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Employment University RegistrationTime Session/Activity Description Room

12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Foundations of Employment

(Employment University Participants Only)

This presentation will provide an overview of employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and the possibilities that occur when we raise our expectations. We’ll take a look at where we started and how far we have come in terms of supporting people in obtaining and maintaining employment. Additionally, participants will be provided insight into the guiding principles and values that drive employment services and supports which will set the stage for the other sessions within the Employment University at the APSE-MO Summit.

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1:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Break1:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Customized Discovery through Career Planning

Featuring: Darla Wilkerson

(Employment University Participants Only)

This session will provide participants with an understanding of the importance of career planning and how ensure that “discovery” through career planning drives the job search process. We will examine the process of career planning and how to involve job seekers every step of the way. Participants will be provided resources they can use to begin implementing career planning with job seekers they support. This session leads participants into the next session of the EU on customized job search.

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3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Break3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Customized Job Development/Search

Featuring: Barb Hoelzer

(Employment University Participants Only)

In this interactive session participants will learn successful practices when approaching potential employers, identifying business needs, creating successful matches, and establishing lasting employer relationships. This session leads participants into the next session in the EU on customized supports.

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4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Social

Thursday, August 11th

Time Session/Activity Description Room8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Customized Supports

Featuring: Lori Pace

(Employment University Participants Only)

The job seeker has accepted a job offer, what’s next? Participants will learn how to identify necessary supports, create a plan for support, and provide or facilitate those supports to be key to on-going success.

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9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.Employment Summit Registration

10:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Key Note: Transforming from WithinFeaturing: Tom Golden

Although agencies and organizations transforming work centers into integrated wage or entrepreneurial programs will face a number of significant challenges at the individual, program and systems level, perhaps the most pervasive challenge is addressing attitudes and expectations- our underlying values and beliefs. Understanding how attitudes, beliefs and expectations held by various stakeholders in the employment process can impact transformation is a first step toward real organizational change. Moving from that baseline to practice though presents a considerable barrier to some organizations. This keynote address will address the barriers to transformation that attitudes and beliefs can hold and service strategies at each stakeholder level that need to occur to establish facilitators of transformation and innovation in our organizations.

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11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Break12:00 p.m. APSE- MO Member Lunch

1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Session 1A: Missouri ConnectionsFeaturing: Tom S.

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Session 1B: Supercharged Employment StaffFeaturing: Tyler Paris

Supercharged and revved up employment staff produce results. The three key ingredients to supercharged employment staff include: curiosity, enthusiasm and energy. Infusing these three characteristics into employment staff should be fun, exciting and achievable. This session looks at how individuals, supervisors and managers can implement strategies to rev up results, boost energy and fuel enthusiasm. During this session participants will: 1. Explore techniques to make employment services fun 2. Implement strategies to increase staff energy and enthusiasm 3. Incorporate an easy to use system for accomplishing goals and objectives 4. How celebrations rev up employment staff.

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Session 1C: Story TellingFeaturing: Dr. George Gotto

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2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Session 2A: Missouri DD CouncilFeaturing: Chaz Nickolaus

The Missouri DD Council’s employment projects are innovative and focus on meeting the needs of individuals with disabilities in a new way. From supporting small business development to benefits planning to career planning, this session will feature something for everyone!

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Session 2B: LeadershipFeaturing: Tom Golden

So, what is leadership? Many might begin a definition of leadership from a position of authority, others would focus on a preconceived set of leadership principles that must be embraced, while yet others would define it from a social influence perspective. More important than how you define it though is how you demonstrate and develop it. Inspiring others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more is a goal of leadership. This session will focus on those traits that set leaders apart from followers and provide participants an opportunity to explore their own personal frame of reference in regard to being an effective leader.

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Session 2C: Think Like an EmployerFeaturing: Tyler Paris

When developing customized employment opportunities, understanding how employers think and developing a strategy based on that thinking are essential for success. This session explores the thoughts, strategies and processes employers use in making hiring decisions. Understanding this thought process allows the job developer to develop, implement and negotiate effective employment strategies with employers. During this session participants will: 1. Discover the three outcomes employers look for in hiring decisions 2. Understand the risks employers experience when making hiring decisions 3. Develop a strategy based on employer thinking to improve employment outcomes.

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3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Break4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Session 3A: Benefits of the TTW Program from

Employment Networks and Job SeekersFeaturing: Maximus

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Session 3B: Self Determination Activities in MissouriFeaturing: Kyla Eversman

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Session 3C: Statewide Employment EffortsFeaturing: Nancy Nickolaus

There are many partners across the state working together to support individuals in reaching their goal of community employment. This session will provide employment updates from the Department of Mental Health, Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Come to this session to be “in the know” about Missouri’s employment initiatives.

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5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.Minute to Win It Social Teams of up to 10 people compete in a series of silly challenges to be

performed in under 1 minute. Each challenge is assessed a point value and the team will receive the allotted number points for each challenge completed in 1 minute or less. There will be a prize for the winners!

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Friday, August 12th

Time Session/Activity Description Room9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Session 4A: Interviewing and Disclosure

Featuring: Connie KetsenburgDuring this session geared toward employment professionals and job seekers, you will learn several aspects of hiring and the differences recruitment in the business world may hold for applications. This will be a more conversational presentation with questions welcomed throughout the presentation. The presentation will discuss the “R’s” of recruiting- relationships, realism, regulation, results and replication with real examples and tools to use when applying for positions in competitive jobs.

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Session 4B: Organizational WRAPFeaturing: Darla Wilkerson

Mary Ellen Copeland founded Wellness Recovery Action Planning to assist individuals who are experiencing mental health symptoms. WRAP is a structured planning tool to monitor uncomfortable and distressing symptoms that can help you reduce, modify or eliminate those symptoms by using planned responses. This includes plans for how you want others to respond when symptoms have made it impossible for you to continue to make decisions, take care of yourself or keep yourself safe. How does this relate to your organization? While originally designed for individuals many are finding this tool very effective to use to help maintain a wellness and balance with their organizational culture. Since each culture is made up of people and their unique personalities they bring to the work environment there are ways WRAP can help maintain a structured proactive way to wellness and stability. This session is an introduction to organizational WRAP and will cover the key concepts and WRAP process as it relates to keeping your organization well and balanced to operate as effectively as possible.

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Session 4C: YES ProgramFeaturing: Cyndi Johns

This session will discuss how one agency has infused its summer recreation program with a strong component of work. Not sure where to begin? This presentation will outline how to establish a summer youth program, including: 1. Insight into curriculum development 2. Ways to include fun, employment and self-advocacy 3. Developing partnerships with other local agencies 4. Using a

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mentoring model for staffing. 10:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Break10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Session 5A: Promoting Your Employment

Network-Ticket to WorkFeaturing: Maximus

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Session 5B: Legislative AdvocacyFeaturing: Angela Gorley

In this session participants will learn about the basics of grassroots advocacy. The Arc of Missouri provides training to families and individuals with developmental disabilities that helps reduce the intimidation factor people often experience in relating to legislators about their needs, and to educate them about the legislative process. This session will provide highlights from this training as well as incite and perspective from real families who actively participated in the 2011 legislative session.

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Session 5C: Assistive Technology: Solutions & Strategies for Successful EmploymentFeaturing: David Baker

Assistive Technology (AT) can “bridge the gap” between the desire people with disabilities have for employment and the requirements of the job. Many workplace barriers can be overcome through the use of assistive technology and/or other types of workplace supports. Session attendees will be introduced to various AT solutions and be provided a blueprint for the successful assessment of AT needs in employment settings.

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11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Break12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Closing Keynote & Lunch: Leading in Full

Swing…RISK IT!Featuring: Cathy Newton

In these challenging times, maybe you feel like you’ve been pushed off the swing of leadership! Don’t settle for risk aversion. And don’t lose hope. Get up, get out, and get in the swing of purposeful risk taking. Exercise your “risk-taking” muscles and learn practical strategies to develop the head, heart and guts of leadership. Get back in the swing…so you can get great results. RISK IT!

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