Transcript Discovery as an Alternative to Assessment

Customized Employment
What’s in your employment Tool Box?
Cassondra Glausier
Coordinator
LSU – Deafblind Project
August 26, 2014
Overview of presentation
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Alternate strategies to employment
Customized Employment defined
The Discovery Process
Ideas for employment portfolios
Tools for your employment toolbox
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CUSTOMIZED EMPLOYMENT
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Customized Employment
Non Traditional Approach
to Finding Employment
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Facilitate Successful
Employment
by matching skills, interest
and conditions of the job
seeker to unmet needs of an
employer
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Customized Employment
• Improve employment • Creates person
opportunities
centered employment
• Focus on persons
with challenges to
employment
• Collaborates with
community partners
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• Focus is discovering
“Who is the person?”
• Focus is observation
not assessment
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Employment Strategies
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Job reassignment
Interest Inventory
Job carving
Job sharing
Job sampling
Self employment
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Video
• Customized Employment
Solutions for Youth with
Disabilities
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=WFP2iEloCEQ://
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The Iceberg Analogy
What we usually know
about the people we try
to assist (Interest Inventories)
We need to know much
more (Discovery)
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Discovery
The guide to customized
employment:
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We Need to Discover
Discovery: to gain insight or
knowledge of something
previously unseen or
unknown; to notice or realize;
to make known, reveal,
disclose
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Discovery is…
• Involves getting to know people, or helping them get
to know themselves.
• Spending time with applicants, instead of testing or
evaluating them, as a means of finding out who they
are and planning a direction for employment
• The best way to find out the best that people have to
offer. Uncovering those interest and skills.
• A common-sense strategy to determine complexities
and preferences. Looks at a persons entire life.
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Capturing Information
“Who is this person?”
“ When is this person at their best?”
“What are their interest, strengths, & preferences?”
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Strategies for Facilitated
Discovery
• Conversation
• Interview
• Time together
• Observation
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• Participation with the
applicant in activities
both familiar and
novel
• Finally, Review of
records
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The “Who” of Discovery
• The person of concern
• Their family and loved
ones
• Close and trusted
friends
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• Neighbors with good
relationships
• Professionals who care
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Counselors
Teachers
Case managers
Service providers
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The “Where” of Discovery
• Home/Living Context:
Discovery starts where
relationships start –
where we live
• Places where the
person is “most who
they are”
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• Community
 Familiar Place
 Novel Place
• Where the person
spends their day
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Observation Skills
• What is the task?
• Describe the motivation/interest to do the task.
• What is the performance of the task? (Pace,
correctness)
• Who do they do the task with?
• What supports are used during the task?
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“What” of Discovery
• Community Connections
• Description of the Applicant
• Summary of information from a work perspective
• Identify & Clarify the Characteristics of a
Customized Working Situation
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DISCOVERY PROFILE
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Discovery allows us to
determine who the applicant is,
their complexities, and potential
contributions to employers.
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Video
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• Customized Employment
Creating Opportunities and
Solutions
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Discovery facts
• Average hours required for Discovery = 20
hours (range 16-24 hrs)
• Average time frame for Discovery = 4
weeks (range 3 – 6 wks)
• We recommend a team effort of 2 – 3
members while learning discovery
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Marketing Tools
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Video Resumes
Pictorial Resumes
One pagers
Portfolio Website
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Pictorial Resumes
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Website Portfolios
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One pagers
Video Resumes
• iMovie for iPad
• Windows Media
• Animoto
• Muvee.com
• Smilebox
• Power Point
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Comments & Questions
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Contact Information
Cassondra Glausier
LSU Human Development Center
(504)-534-8511
Email: [email protected]
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THANK YOU!
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Reference
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