CCER's VR Projects and Services team can train staff on the Foundations of Rehab. Choose from the list of topics below, combine topics, or propose a new training topic that will help you achieve your organization's training goals.
Vocational Assessment
An overview of the use of assessments for diagnostic and intervention planning purposes relevant to educational, career, personal, and social development in rehabilitation counseling. Includes methods of assessment for individuals with disabilities, including testing instruments, individual accommodations, environmental modification, and interpretation of results. Emphasis on a collaborative, client-centered approach to assessment.
Community Resources
Discussion on the importance of community resources in VR, from the lens of comparable benefit utilization that includes community resource types that are critical for consumer success, a comprehensive approach, increasing VR efficiency, and upholding the autonomy of the VR consumer.
Case Management/Caseload Movement
Overview of the techniques and procedures related to individualized case management and caseload movement.
Counseling & Guidance (Behavior Changes/Theories/Approaches)
Overview of select counseling theories and approaches that focus on weaving in the law, ethical considerations, and fundamental approaches to helping people change.
Assistive Technology
Overview of current assistive technology, including terminology, assessment methods, and resources for consumers seeking assistive technology and/or training.
Foundations for Rehabilitation
An overview of the principles and practices of rehabilitation counseling, including history, philosophy, ethics, legislative influences, organizational structures, and service-delivery models.
Ethical Considerations
Identify, describe, and apply ethical principles of rehabilitation counseling and ethical decision-making models.
Career Exploration
Explore, compare, and contrast a variety of reputable online career exploration tools and activities related to the consumer's characteristics, essential knowledge, skills, abilities, and goals for success.
Labor Market / Business Engagement
Overview of online occupational information, labor market trends, and meaningful employment with a career focus. Includes job analysis and specific employment techniques, and relevant legislation.
Communication Strategies
An overview of effective communication strategies to assist professionals in operating from a person-centered approach. This course covers specific strategies to navigate hard or difficult discussions. Human interactions can generate resistance to behavior change or discourse between the professional and the consumer. This course assists the professional in identifying those characteristics and incorporating effective communication strategies so that both professionals and consumers feel more heard and understood, promoting conversations that reflect empathy and respect.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
MI is an evidence-based style of communication that helps a person identify the importance and/or confidence to make change, clarify their reasons for or against making change, and help them create change that aligns with their values. CCER can provide training on aspects and concepts of MI and for all skill levels, from an introduction to advanced skill-building, coaching, and coding, including preparation for MINT certification. Highly customizable!
Employment Rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA Title I)
Focus on Title I of the ADA, the employment title. Includes a brief overview of the ADA and clarification of employers that are subject to the law, employers that are not subject to this law, rights of the job seeker or employee (including requesting reasonable accommodation), enforcement steps, and resources.
Accessible Documents
Learn how to make all your documents accessible for readers with low vision and assistive technology users. Choose your document type: Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Portable Document Format (PDF). Follow along as the instructor demonstrates steps for fixing common accessibility errors.
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Contact
For more information on CCER's services for VR professionals, please contact Kelly Franklin, Director of VR Projects and Services, at kjf7@uw.edu or 541-301-4925.