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Disability
and Employment - Vocational Rehabilitation: Where Partners Create
Careers - Strategies provided on the following topic:
Strategy: The VR
"Employer-as-a-Customer" Partnership: Effective Strategies
Presenters: Kathy West-Evans,
Rehabilitation Services Administration – Region X, U.S. Department
of Education; Peggy Anderson, Coordinator of Employer Services, Alabama
Department of Rehabilitation Services; Vicki Winn, Cellular One and
Western Wireless
Contact: 915 Second Avenue, Room 2848,
Seattle, WA 97174-1099
Phone: (206) 220 7848
Fax: (206) 220 7842
Kathleen.west-evans@ed.gov
Facilitator: Kathy West-Evans
This session will further elaborate on
concepts highlighted during the Private Sector Employment General
Session. It will focus on three key issues:
- Major precepts in building &
maintaining partnerships;
- What employers need or want from VR;
- How VR systems respond to specific
employer needs.
In segment1, there will be a review of
the most significant precepts employers have identified as critical in
both the development and maintenance of VR partnerships with them. This
segment will include highlights from the IRI document on developing and
maintaining employer partnerships, with specific emphasis on the chapter
written by business and industry for VR staff.
Segment 2 of this session will feature
employer(s) presenting their perspective on their needs and expectations
of VR partners in the early stages of a working relationship and
throughout that ongoing partnership.
Finally, the third segment will focus on
how VR systems can best respond to specific employer needs and
expectations. It will address the question: “When it works, what does an
effective partnership between VR and employers look like?”
A question and answer component will be
built into the session to allow time for interaction between panelist
and the audience to share effective strategies in their respective
agencies.
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