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Logistics
Required book(s) or materials: Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities
Recommended book(s) or materials: Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities
Seminar length: 1 day to 1 week
Number of participants: 15-200 for shorter seminars (preferably 30-50); no more than 30 for week-long seminars
Who will benefit from this seminar: Individuals with disabilities and their families, counselors, employment specialists, and transitional professionalsSpeaker Fees: (What do fees include?)
1 day: $2000
2 or more days: $1870 per day
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Let us know which of the topics below you’d like to include in your half-day to one-week seminar.
Let us know if your group includes individuals with disabilities, employment specialists, or others, and we’ll target this seminar to your audience!
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Seminar Description
An Introduction to Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities (1-3 days)
This seminar provides an overview of how individuals with disabilities can start and maintain their own business. The speaker draws on examples of more than 300 business start-ups and covers the following important information:
- Financing
- Business planning
- Support strategies
- Financial planning
- Social Security
Longer seminars allow for the introduction of community and classroom exercises, problem solving, and individual consultations.
Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities: Advanced (2 days to 1 week)
In this seminar, participants learn the fundamentals of
- Business planning
- Business feasibility testing
- Marketing
- Sales
- Financial planning
- Social Security
The speaker also touches on Social Security issues and systems concerns, blending funding sources, using existing laws (IDEA, The Rehabilitation Act, the Workforce Investment Act) to fund and support a business, and individualizing plans and support models.
Employment for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (1-2 days)
This seminar is customized to provide participants with an understanding of community employment (competitive, supported employment), transition strategies, job development, job carving, job analysis, and job creation.
Social Security Work Incentives (2 days)
This seminar is useful both for those who are (or are considering becoming) self-employed and/or wage-employed. It covers Social Security Administration basics, Plans for Achieving Self Support (PASS), Impairment Related Work Incentives (IRWE), financial planning, Medicaid, Medicare, subsidized housing, food stamps, and other options.
Using Business Coaching to Improve Self-Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities (1-2 days)
Every business has a challenge. This seminar provides an overview of successful methods and tools for increasing business success. The speaker draws from examples of individuals and companies who do and do not experience disability issues. The following important aspects are covered:
- Business assessment
- Elements of successful businesses
- Personal Strengths Inventory
- Building Concept Teams
- Values-based goal setting
Longer seminars allow for the introduction of community and classroom exercises, problem solving, and individual consultations.
Using a Presentation Portfolio as a Job Development Tool (1-2 days)
This hands-on workshop assists participants in developing individual presentation portfolios. A portfolio serves as a personalized, visual resume that represents the best features of an individual with a disability. It can also provide a conversational guideline for job interviews. This field-tested tool has been proven effective in communicating to employers the work contributions of adults with disabilities. During this session, participants create individual portfolios by combining text and photographs. They leave the workshop with the tools to replicate the process.
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