Supporting Executive Functioning for Students on Center and in Distance Learning Settings |
Executive function is the “command and control” center of all cognitive skills. Although executive functioning issues are not considered a disability on their own, they often appear in individuals with disabilities to include LD, ADHD, Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD to name a few. This webinar reviews various executive function manifestations, related functional limitations, and explores a variety of accommodations and supports that could assist Job Corps students with executive function challenges on center and in distance/remote/online learning. |
Reasonable Accommodation Hot Topics #1 |
The center interactive reasonable accommodation
process can be a complex one that encompasses never-ending scenario
configurations and considerations. This
webinar reviews and discusses some of the more common areas of challenge
encountered in the reasonable accommodation process
including: Reasonableness Reviews, Accommodation
Recommendations of Denial (ARDFs) and Reasonable Accommodation Committee (RAC)
Responsibilities in the TABE Waiver Process. |
Distance Learning Resources to Support Students with Disabilities |
Students
with disabilities have the same right to receive accommodations in Distance
Learning activities as they do with on center activities. This interactive webinar will review Distance
Learning resources and strategies designed to create access for students with
disabilities but also could benefit ALL students. |
Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt |
This
webinar will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical
adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with
disabilities in career technical training. The importance of developing
supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be
discussed. |
Improving Employability Outcomes By Enhancing Self-Regulation for Students with Disabilities |
A growing body of research is demonstrating the importance of self-regulation skills in helping people obtain and maintain employment. Students with various disabilities often come to Job Corps with challenges associated with poor or inadequate self-regulation skills. This functional limitation can impact all areas of life including employability.
This webinar will define self-regulation
skills, outline specific strategies and resources for improving students’
self-regulation skills, and discuss how to accommodate functional limitations
associated with self-regulation challenges. A Center Mental Health
Consultant (CMHC) with more than 20 years’ experience in Job Corps will be a
guest speaker and provide examples of how to use specific resources,
including technology, to support students with self-regulation challenges.
*Webinar Resources/Handouts Page |
Documentation of Disability: IEPs and Beyond |
This webinar provides an overview of the process
for determining documentation of a disability including policy resources, examples of typical
sources of disability documentation, examples of how to locate accommodation
support within the disability documentation, and what to do when an
applicant/student does not have documentation of a disability. |
Service Animals and Assistance Animals in the Job Corps Program |
This webinar
will discuss legal requirements related to ensuring applicants and students
with a service animal are provided access to Job Corps centers. The process for
requesting an assistance animal as an accommodation will also be covered. Additionally, the updated “Service Animals
and Assistance Animals in Job Corps Program” guide will be reviewed along with
sample scenarios and related resources.
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The 411 on Accommodating Students in Residential Life |
Reasonable
Accommodation in Residential Living provides easy and practical ways to
accommodate and adapt dorm communication, rules, procedures, assignments, and
behavior expectations for students with disabilities. This webinar will review the basic RA process
and staff responsibilities with Accommodation Plans, as well as highlight
assistive technology and other practical adaptations that support both
independence and employability in daily living for various types of
disabilities. |
Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Center-Based” Trades
Blind Chef Video (Viewed during webinar) |
Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Center-Based” Trades is Part 2 of a 2-part webinar series that will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with disabilities enrolled in the medical, office, automotive or food service career technical training. The importance of developing supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be discussed. |
Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Hard” Trades
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Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Hard Trades” is Part 1 of a 2-part webinar series that will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with disabilities enrolled in the building or construction-related trades. The importance of developing supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be discussed |
Disability Coordinator Orientation Part 2: Reasonable Accommodation Process |
Reasonable
accommodation affords students with disabilities equal access to the Job Corps
program. This part 2 of a 3-part webinar series will review the separate
responsibility Job Corps has to communicate effectively with people with
disabilities, and review the complete step-by-step reasonable accommodation
process.
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Introduction to Disability and Reasonable Accommodation
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This webinar will cover the definitions of disability and reasonable accommodation, basic disability data collection requirements, examples of reasonable accommodation, the difference between case management and reasonable accommodation and related resources. |
Case Management and Reasonable Accommodation – What’s the Difference? |
This webinar will discuss
the concepts of reasonable accommodation and case management of health care
needs, describe the relationship between each, provide examples of each, and
discuss related documentation requirements. |
Creating Inclusive Environments: Involving Residential andBehavioral Staff in the Disability Program |
This webinar covers the key
role that center residential and behavioral staff can play in the accommodation
process.
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CRC Updates Section 188 WIOA Equal Opportunity Regulations (29 CFR Part 38) Job Corps |
This webinar provides important updates to the existing regulations, which have not been substantively updated since 1999. Questions can be sent to civilrightscenter@dol.gov.
Supporting Materials:
- Implementation of the Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
- IN 15-15 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Transgender Applicants and Students
Attachment: 15-15a Release Date: November 3, 2015
- PI 14-31 Ensuring Equal Access for Transgender Applicants and Students to the Job Corps Program
Release Date: May 1, 2015
- IN 14-12 Webinars and Resources on the New Job Corps Family Planning Policy
Attachments: 14-12a, 14-12b Release Date: September 25, 2014
- PRH Change Notice 14-05 Policy and Requirements Handbook (PRH) Chapter 6, Section, 6.4, R4, Separations, Section 6.6, R4, Local Transportation, Section 6.11, R4, Family Planning Program, Section 6.11, R5, HIV/AIDS, Section 6.12, R11, Medical Separations, and Exhibit6.1, Duty/Pay/Leave Status Chart
Attachments: 14-05a, 14-05b Release Date: September 19, 2014
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