Regional MeetingsSeptember & October2015

• YTP Management Team• Keith Ozols – Vocational Rehabilitation • Sally Simich – Oregon Department of Education • Charlotte Alverson – University of Oregon• Peter FitzGerald – UO TA Provider• Mike Johnson – UO TA Provider• Jeri Dickinson – UO TA Provider (almost Emerita) • Jesse Berkey – UO TA Provider• Mary Jo Erickson – UO TA Provider

• Sites

Welcome

Purposes of Today’s Training

• To provide training to new and existing YTP sites relative to important updates from VR, ODE, and YTP the procedures of YTP

• To distribute the revised YTP Procedures Manual

• To provide opportunity for sites to network and share information

Agenda • 8:30 – 9:15 General Transition Planning -- Sally Simich • 9:15 – 10:00 Program Management -- Mike Johnson• Break into separate rooms – New Sites & Existing Sites • 10:00 – 11:00 Screening and Referral -- Peter FitzGerald/Keith Ozols• 11:00- 11:15 Break• 11:15 – 12:00 YTP Transition Services – Sally Simich/Jeri Dickinson• 12:00- 1:15 Lunch • 1:15 – 2:00 Employment and Final Placement – Keith Ozols• 2:00 – 2:45 Instruction -- Charlotte Alverson • 2:45 – 2:55 Break• 2:55 – 3:45 Program Performance – Peter FitzGerald• 3:45 - Next Steps

General Transition Planning

Program Management

Program Management

Two Major Goals:

• ORGANIZATIONAL GOAL: To develop an efficient and effective YTP team that utilizes the strengths of team members and encourages exemplary case management or clients.

• MARKETING GOAL: To infuse the new pattern of service created by the YTP into the schools and facilitate systems change.

Essential Features

• Clarify Staff Roles• Collaboration between Schools/VR/Family• Coordination with existing school and community programs• Marketing/Public Relations

Clarify Staff Roles•Capitalize on strengths and capabilities•Build trust and teamwork

Meet Regularly as a Team•Arrange for sacred meeting time•Discuss and document student

progress•Utilize the YTP database to track

performance

Coordinate Services w/other programs in the school and community…• Career Center• CTE Programs• Voc Ed Programs• Community College (Life Skills Program)• Employment First• ODDS• Workforce Councils

Become “Entrepreneurial” in Marketing the Program•Coordinate with other programs/resources•Create new opportunities •Maintain and expand the program

Screening and Referral

YTP Transition Services

YTP Transition Services

Potentially

EligiblePotentially eligible means students who have an undocumented disability (e.g., mental health, physical disability, or health impairment).

YTP Transition Services Foundation Activities: Pre-Employment Transition Services (P.E.T.S.)

• Job exploration counseling;• Work-based learning experiences;• Counseling on opportunities for

enrollment at institutions of higher education;• Workplace readiness training …

social skills & independent living; • Instruction in self-advocacy.

Core Activities: Enhanced transition activities

• Identification and Referral• Motivational Interviewing • IPE Development • Instruction in Vocational Skills • Career Development

Essential Features

1. FAMILY INVOLVEMENT:Student and family preferences and interests are documented and incorporated

into the YTP transition planning process, in order to ensure that the planning process is "client-driven".

2. STUDENT SKILLS:The current skill levels of YTP students are documented and this information is

incorporated into the transition planning process. 3. COLLABORATIVE PLANNING:The transition plans are developed in collaboration with key players from

appropriate school and adult service agencies, and coordinated with the student’s IPE developed by VR counselor.

Essential Features

4. POSTSECONDARY GOALS:General transition planning incorporates all relevant areas of transition, including,

education, training, employment, and, when appropriate, independent living goals. However, YTP services and activities are focused on the student’s postsecondary employment goal.

5. SYSTEMS CHANGE:YTP procedures provide a model for using student input to drive a seamless

movement from high school to adult life through collaborative planning and coordinating delivery.

Lunch 12:00 – 1:15

Instruction

One Purpose of Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (I.D.E.A.)

to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a

free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education

and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare

them for further education, employment, and independent living;

(emphasis added 34 CFR §300.1(a)).

Transition services (a) Transition services means a coordinated set of activities for a child with a disability

This coordinated set of activities— (1) Is designed to be within a results oriented process that is focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the child with a disability to facilitate the child’s movement from school to post-school activities, including postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation; (2) Is based on the individual child’s needs, taking into account the child’s strengths, preferences, and interests; and includes—

(i) Instruction; (ii) Related services; (iii) Community experiences; (iv) The development of employment and other post-school adult living objectives; and (v) If appropriate, acquisition of daily living skills and provision of a functional vocational evaluation.

Instruction

Goals of instruction within the YTP: •To develop instructional options based on the student’s postsecondary employment goal

•To provide YTP students opportunities to learn skills that enable them to live, work, and learn independently in their communities.

What, When, Where, and How to Teach • In collaboration with the special education teacher and or case manager

and general educators, and/or Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor • Figure out what to teach, and when, where, and how to provide instruction

to help YTP youth achieve their postsecondary employment goal • Five areas of instruction:

• Functional academics – reading for information, money management, and writing in daily life;

• Vocational – general work readiness skills and specific occupation skills for the worksite

• Independent living – washing clothes, and securing a place to live, • Personal /social skills – communication, and appropriate worksite behaviors, • Self-determination/self-advocacy – setting and monitoring of goals, making

decisions.

What to TeachBased on the youth’s measurable postsecondary goals • training/ education, employment, and independent living skills

where appropriate.

Strategy 1: Ask: What knowledge, behaviors, and skills does this student need to learn in order to…• enroll in and persist in postsecondary education or vocational

education, continuing or adult education to reach his employment goal? • obtain and maintain integrated competitive or supported

employment? • participate in adult services, and live independently or participate

in his or her community?

What knowledge, behaviors, and skills does this student need to learn in order to… • enroll in and persist in postsecondary education or

vocational education, continuing or adult education to reach his employment goal?

• obtain and maintain integrated competitive or supported employment?

• participate in adult services, and live independently or participate in his or her community?

After high school Joe will drive a long-haul truck.

What to Teach•General work readiness skills are the basic knowledge, behaviors,

and skills needed for most jobs• academic skills • soft skills

•Occupation specific knowledge, behaviors, and skills are specialized and dependent on a specific job

• Self-Determination and Self Advocacy - “the ability to makechoices, solve problems, set goals, evaluate options, take initiative to reach one’s goals, and accept consequences of one's actions” (Rowe et al., 2013).

What to Teach

• Strategy 2: Backwards Planning

Where they are now

What they need by the time they leave

high school

Start with the employment goal

Knowledge, behaviors, and skills

• Self determination & self-advocacy to request accommodations

• Access to shower facilities & supplies

• Bus pass for reliable transportation

High School Diploma

• Pass English classes• Improved

attendance • Learn coping skills • Develop a course of

study focused on science (biology) and Health & PE (nutrition & exercise science)

Personal Trainer

• High School Diploma

• Good Hygiene• Time management

skills to be on time and reliable

• Interpersonal skills to work with clients

Backwards Planning Example

When and Where to Teach

Community Apartment

School-Based Business

Hallmarks of Instruction in YTP

• Individualization, taking into account the unique needs of each YTP student

• Flexibility, to meet youth where he is

• Practical, real-life applications, to enable youth to be more independent

• Relevant to the student’s current and future environments

• Strong focus on self-determination and self-advocacy development

How to Teach • In collaboration • Using evidence-based practices (EBP). • Instructional strategies used with individual students to help them learn

specific knowledge, behaviors, or skills

• Community-Based Instruction to teach:• Banking Skills• Grocery Shopping• Integration Skills• Purchasing Skill• Safety Skills• Communication Skills• Employment Skills

Mnemonics to teach:•Job Application Skills•Academic Skills

Video Modeling to teach: •Food Preparation and Cooking Skills•Home Maintenance Skills

Program Performance

Purposes of Today’s Training

• To provide training to new and existing YTP sites relative to important updates from VR, ODE, and YTP the procedures of YTP

• To distribute the revised YTP Procedures Manual

• To provide opportunity for sites to network and share information

Next Steps and Announcements

•YTP Manual•Work in progress• Send suggestions, corrections to

the YTP Team via Submit a Question

Community of Practice • Oct 7 at 11:00 to 12:00 YTP Community of Practice call• Join the call by dialing 1-800-882-3610, guest/pass code: 990-

6917#

International Division for Career Development & Transition (DCDT) Conference

Nov 5 – 7, Portland Oregon ODE has registration scholarships Go to www.DCDT.org

YTP Statewide Conference – Hood River Feb 18, 2016

OAVSNP – Hood River Feb 19 – 20, 2016 Save the Dates

Database •Contact your TA Provider if you need access to the database or have questions

•Will be offline Friday afternoon for another update

•More updates in the next few months

Next Steps and Announcements

Community of Practice• Monthly Calls • Watch the YTP website for dates

Evaluation for Regional Meetings • Watch for an email - end of the week