Technical Assistance and Training

National
The University of Iowa Law, Health Policy and Disability Center contracted with Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC to provide technical assistance and training for national training and technical assistance supporting the implementation of Disability Program Navigators in fourteen states. Colorado WIN Partners developed curriculum for three training units: Identifying and Working with Individuals with Disabilities; Art of Negotiation: Effective Communication Strategies; and, System Collaboration: Building Partnerships. This training curriculum was delivered in November 2003 at the Washington D.C. training for the Disability Program Navigators funded jointly by Social Security Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor. In November 2004, WIN Partners/UCDHSC is assisting in design of the national Disability Program Navigator training, facilitating track 3 (Building Successful Partnerships), and delivering topical presentations. In addition, Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC provides ongoing technical assistance through monthly teleconferences and site visits with four states. Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC has expanded this contract to include external evaluation. Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC will be conducting site visits in Wisconsin and Massachusetts for external evaluation activities.

Colorado
Colorado Office of Workforce Development (COWD) contracted with Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC to provide technical assistance and training to the existing Disability Program Navigators (Consumer Navigator) throughout Colorado. Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC conducts monthly statewide teleconferences, utilizes a statewide listserv and makes site visits to each Disability Program Navigator site to assist in orientation, training and troubleshooting. Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC is also responsible for hosting topical statewide conferences for all Disability Program Navigators and partners. Some of the topics for the most recent training focused on Communication and Conflict Resolution, Customized Employment, Social Security Work Incentives and PASS Plans, and Assistive Technology.

In another contract with COWD, Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC has a contract to provide training and technical assistance on the Innovative State Alignment Grant for Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities Through the Use of Intermediaries. Through this contract, Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC provides technical assistance and training to the participating local sites in Colorado, conducts statewide focus groups and literature review, and assistance in state plan development. Local sites are required to conduct resource mapping and focus groups, develop a local plan aligned with the state plan, and implement systems changes that improve transition outcomes for youth with disabilities. Colorado WIN Partners provide technical assistance and training needed through on and off site face to face meetings, facilitation of monthly teleconferences, and utilization of a group list to provide necessary resources.

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Curriculum Descriptions

Disability Program Navigator Self-Paced
Self Paced Training November 2006

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Training Descriptions (& relevant handouts)

Statewide Consumer Navigator Training, August 2006
Our most recent training offered a variety of timely training topics to Disability Program Navigators and Community Partners. These topics include:

• Marketing Individuals to Employers
• Job Development Assistance from other Employees
• When to Disclose a Disability
• Working with SSA, BPAOs (Benefit Planning Assistance & Outreach), and Benefits Planners.
• Disclosure: What you can ask from an ADA perspective
• Universal Access Protocol & Training your Internal Staff
• Low Cost AT and Marketing your Technology

Disability Awareness
Presenters: Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC

This training offers best practices of etiquette for interacting with individuals with disabilities in your community. These practices apply to colleagues with disabilities, customers with disabilities and the general public. This session includes discussion of providing Universal Access to all customers for programs and services; a relevant topic for all workplaces.

Universal Access Design
Presenters: Colorado WIN Partners/UCDHSC

This session focuses on how to make services and programs accessible to customers including those with disabilities. What are the values of Universal Access? Who benefits? And how do you makes programs and services accessible to the largest possible audience. Through the use of discussion, interactive activities and visual examples, participants of this session will learn how to make programs and services Universally Accessible.

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Evaluation