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OVERVIEW

- This training event is part of the Housing series presented by our Center.
- More dates are available and being planned (click here).
This interactive session is an extension of prior housing and employment
workshops from our Center. The session will guide participants through
a step-by-step process for helping residents find specific jobs that
meet their unique strengths, abilities, preferences, and needs. Participants will be provided with relevant strategies and tools. Employer incentives and other approaches to assist with challenges such as legal background or substance issues will be explored. Participants will have the opportunity to practice simulated employer interactions via exercises that include phone calls and face-to-face community-based meetings.
Learning Objectives
Participants in this training event will be able to ...
- Identify strategies to assist individuals with identifying jobs that are a good fit
- Identify employer incentives and other strategies to encourage hiring
- Identify strategies for engaging employers in conversations about their hiring interests and preferences
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Steve Shober, BS, LSW, WIP
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Our training events are open to professionals from multiple disciplines, service settings, and systems of care who provide healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and other services to people with mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. Examples of people who attend our events include the following:
Service roles
- Program managers
- Team leaders
- Clinical supervisors
- Medical staff
- Quality assurance professionals
- Administrators
- Policymakers
- Direct-service staff
- Peer supporters
- Peer specialists
- Peer recovery coaches
Service settings
- Behavioral healthcare organizations (e.g., mental health, addiction services)
- County boards (e.g., mental health, addiction services)
- Psychiatric hospitals (state and community)
- Hospitals
- Managed Care Organizations
- Criminal justice (e.g., police, courts, jail, probation, parole)
- Residential
- Housing
- Health clinics (primary health)
- Health Homes
Professional disciplines
- Mental-health services
- Addiction services
- Social work
- Psychology
- Primary healthcare
- Psychiatry
- Nursing
- Occupational therapy
- Residential
- Housing
- Criminal justice
- Vocational rehabilitation