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Training & TA

Training and Technical Assistance

TransCen, Inc. offers personalized training and technical assistance services covering a wide array of topics. We work with our customers to determine expectations to develop innovative training and technical assistance based on your needs. Our training and technical assistance is designed to develop and enhance skills, improve processes and performance, and build capacity – all with the focus on integrated employment for youth and adults with disabilities.

Since 1986, we have been on the forefront of systems change and capacity-building efforts – working with school districts, human service organizations, government agencies, advocacy groups, businesses, families and students with disabilities. Our staff development and technical assistance services are dynamic, affordable, tailored to your needs, provide out-of-the-box solutions and designed to GET RESULTS!

Transition

Improving post-secondary employment outcomes for youth with disabilities requires coordinated planning and collaboration of all stakeholders. Discover how to create a seamless transition process that promotes individualized planning, leveraging resources and expertise of all stakeholders.

Pre-employment Transition Services

Pre-employment transition services (Pre-ETS) provides an important new avenue for collaboration between Vocational Rehabilitation, schools, and community rehabilitation partners. Learn practical resources, strategies, and examples of how to develop and implement Pre-ETS to assist youth with disabilities to explore, and ultimately obtain, competitive integrated employment.

State and Local Program Implementation

The cornerstone of improving outcomes for students with disabilities is the effective implementation of programs at the state and local level. Tailored training and TA will be provided to assist you in incorporating evidenced-based practices to achieve your organization’s mission and strategic goals to improve competitive integrated employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.

Cross-Stakeholder Partnership

Transition today requires the development of strong partnerships to coordinate and collaborate to maximize staff and fiscal capacity. Discover customized strategies and processes to align, leverage, and sustain collaborative efforts in your state or local communities.

Person-Centered Assessment and Discovery

The foundation of employment planning for individuals with disabilities is to engage them in a process of self-discovery so they understand their preferences and desires for employment.  Learn how to navigate the myriad of information on person-centered assessment and discovery to incorporate youth, parents, vocational rehabilitation counselor, educator, and other perspectives into the career planning process.

Meaningful Day

Support individuals with disabilities in discovering the life they desire by gaining knowledge of the practices of Meaningful Day. Learn practical methods to provide comprehensive person-centered community-based approaches to employment, community participation, and full-life model of integration.

Braided Model Services

We live in a world of competing challenges, priorities and solutions.  Discover innovative strategies and practical ideas to leverage funding and staff capacity to promote shared outcomes of funding partners.

Community Inclusion

Individuals with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and dis-empowered groups. Learn how to be part of the solution by implementing research-based practical strategies that promote individual purpose and meaning.

Value Stream Mapping

Nothing in life is free. Understand how to document, analyze and improve the flow of your services or processes to maximize capacity and minimize wasteful spending or duplication of services. Proven lean-management techniques will be highlighted to assist you in identifying areas of strength, areas of inefficiency and how to implement a process for improvement.

Guided Decision Making

Promote guided decision making with individuals you support by learning the strategies and practices that encourage individuals with disabilities exercising choice and making decisions about their own life.

Employment Services

Meaningful work is possible for all individuals with disabilities. Our interactive trainings address all aspects of competitive integrated employment including guidance on Employment First and provider transformation.

Association of Community Rehabilitation Providers (ACRE)

Build your capacity to improve employment outcomes. This comprehensive training curriculum teaches all aspects of employment and culminates in a nationally recognized certification.

Customized Employment

There’s a job for everyone who wants one. Discover the creative strategies to customize employment opportunities for the employer and individual with a disability.

Systematic Instruction

Build on prior learning to solidify job task instruction. Learn accurate assessment, defining necessary skills and setting mastery criteria as well as task analysis and strong positive reinforcement.

The Americans with Disabilities Act

Creating an inclusive community through disability awareness and ADA training. We are funded by the Federal government to educate all entities who are covered in the law.

Rights and Responsibilities

Whether you are an employer, state or local government, or an individual with a disability it is important to know how this law applies to your situation. TransCen’s ADA Center can help by providing a variety of in-person and online resources—from webinars and fact sheets to customized trainings and individualized phone consultations.

The Reasonable Accommodation Interactive Process

Implementing effective accommodations is a win-win for everyone. Tailored training includes lessons learned from over 20 years of case law.

Disability Awareness

All employees benefit from a diverse inclusive work environment. Disability awareness presentations weave humor with general etiquette guidelines as well as information on specific disability types to make everyone feel more comfortable interacting with people with disabilities.

Self-Advocacy

Understanding the law can help improve self-advocacy skills. Take the legal requirements an extra step by practicing, identifying and requesting accommodations and understanding issues around self-identification.