Description
Friday, February 21, 2025
11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Provide an Integrated Approach to Transition into the Workforce
Engage students with disabilities - both visible and invisible - in career exploration through an integrated approach between academic and student support services. Provide the necessary support they need to successfully market their skills, compete with other workers, and be gainfully employed when they graduate. Exceed their support expectations to ensure they graduate and are successful in a diverse workforce!
Gather your colleagues and join our expert presenters on February 21, 2025, when you and your staff will explore:
- Strategies and accommodations to make your career services programs more accessible.
- How to prepare and train your students to be self-advocates, from completing an application, participating in an interview process and ultimately securing a job.
- Tools for educating students on how to recognize their unique workplace needs, and how to respectfully and successfully negotiate for them.
- Initiatives to build confidence and networking abilities in students with disabilities to enhance their career readiness.
- Proactive approaches to establish campus-wide support services to ensure student success.
You will review real case studies and hear how students with disabilities have overcome common misconceptions and eliminated assumptions of their abilities to succeed academically and professionally.
Topics Covered
Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:
- Identify common barriers that students with disabilities face in accessing career service and employment opportunities and empower them to navigate their transition successfully into the workforce.
- Develop effective strategies and accommodations for career services to make your programs more accessible and user friendly.
- Create actionable recommendations to enhance the inclusivity and accessibility of career services for students with disabilities.
- Foster critical partnerships between career services, student accessibility services, external organizations and employers to provide comprehensive support for students.
- Recognize the unique situations students with disabilities (required accommodations, medical needs, hidden disabilities) encounter in work settings and develop strategies and techniques for them to self-advocate and ensure their needs are met.
Presenters
Erin Maharaj is a dedicated career services professional currently serving as the Assistant Director and Liaison to the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at the Florida Atlantic University Career Center.
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Michelle Shaw currently serves as the Director of Student Accessibility Services at Florida Atlantic University.
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Included When You Register
Invite your entire team for one low price!
- Live 90-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
- Access for your entire team for one low price
- Unlimited access to view webinar recording on demand (available after live event)
- Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
- Certificate of completion for each participant
- Weekly newsletter – What's Working on Campus
Instructions for live webinar access for your group are provided to you immediately upon checkout. Instructions for accessing the on-demand recording will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours following the live webinar. Feel free to contact us at info@paper-clip.com or 1-866-295-0505 with any questions. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.
PaperClip Communications welcomes persons with disabilities to join our webinars. If you anticipate needing an accommodation or have questions about the online access provided, please email info@paper-clip.com at least two weeks in advance of your participation.
