Illinois Center for Transition and Work

Customized employment webinars

• Consumer Panel
• Customized Employment and Job Site Training and Support
• Discovery Presentation
• Employer Perspectives
• Long-Term Supports
• Supported Employment: Good Model, Bad Model or Bad Implementation
• What is Supported and Customized Employment?

Pathways to employment webinars

• Changing the Local Landscape through Community Conversations
• Connecting Youth with Significant Disabilities to Summer Employment
• Developing Effective Partnerships with Local Businesses
• Guiding Principles for Promoting Youth Employment
• High-Quality Assessment for Meaningful Employment
• Promoting Early Work Experiences for Students with Significant Disabilities

Self-determination webinars

• Identification of Generalizable Self-Determination Strengths and Needs
• Self Determination: The Engine Powering Transition Planning and Education
• Teaching Essential Self-Determination Skills
• Teaching Student Engagement in the Transition Planning Process
  

Transition assessment webinars

• Employment and Life Skills Assessment
• Functional Vocational Assessment
• Illustrated and Video Career Interest Assessments
• Postsecondary Education Interests and Skills Assessment
• Transition Assessment and Goal Generator
• Written Career Interest Assessments

WBLEs webinars

• Community Resource Mapping

• Competencies for Job Coaches who Provide Workplace Supports to Individuals with Disabilities

• Developing Multi-faceted Worksites within Large Businesses  |  Resources
• Establishing Work-Site Training Agreements for School to Work Programs  |  Resources
• Leading Meaningful Change: Restructuring the Delivery of Transition Services to Improve School to Work Outcomes
• Overcoming Challenges to Building Successful Work-Based Learning Experiences  |  Resource list
• Strategies for Job Analysis and Job Carving
• Strategies for Job Development
• Work-Based Learning Experiences for Students with Disabilities: Ensuring Alignment with the Fair Labor Standards Act

ICTW Symposium Keynotes

• Competencies for Job Coaches who Provide Workplace Supports to Individuals with Disabilities (2024)
• Making the Grade or Missing the Mark: Employment Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (2024)
• Panel Presentation - Employer Perspectives on School-Business Partnerships (2024)
• Pathways to Employment for Youth and Young Adults with Autism (2023)
• Perspectives on School to Work Transition Across the State of Illinois (2023)
• Strategies to Assist Youth with Autism and Significant Support Needs to Transition to Employment (2023)
• Perspectives on School to Work Transition Across the State of Illinois (2022)
• Reflections on Transition and Career Development Somewhere Near the End of COVID-19: A Proven 9-Step Process for Helping Young People with Significant Disabilities Start Their Successful Careers (2022)
• The Road to Employment for Transition-Age Youth: Key Postures, Practices, and Partnerships (2022)

Webinars on work related topics

• Building a Scope and Sequence of Work Skills and Experiences for Employment Success
• Functional Behavior Assessments in the Workplace  |  Assessment (FAI-W)
• Job Exploration Counseling
• Making Work-Based Learning REALLY Work! - The Stages of Learning
• Making Work-Based Learning REALLY Work! - Using Task Analysis in School and Community Work Settings
• Predictors of Postschool Success
• School-to-Work Transition Guide for Illinois
• Transition Plan Development: Writing and Aligning Post-Secondary and Annual Goals  |  Resources
• Workplace Social Skills