{"id":816,"date":"2017-02-24T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/?p=816"},"modified":"2017-02-24T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:21:27","slug":"annual-employment-first-conference-registration-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/24\/annual-employment-first-conference-registration-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Employment First Conference &#8211; Registration Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Board for Developmental Disabilities, Wisconsin APSE and People First Host the Fourth Annual Employment First Conference<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 5 &#8211; Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, over 350 people attended the WI Employment First Conference \u201cCelebrating Progress!\u201d The conference focused on<strong> major achievements made with integrated employment <\/strong>and honored advocates, families, service providers, state agencies, and schools who have worked tirelessly to increase integrated employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contedusi.uwsp.edu\/v20\/emc00\/register.aspx?OrgCode=10&amp;EvtID=5237&amp;AppCode=REG&amp;CC=116120726377\">Register Now!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Conference Session topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building service provider capacity<\/li>\n<li>Provider transformation \u2013movement towards more community integrated employment<\/li>\n<li>Engaging students and families FULLY in the transition planning process: An endeavor worth the effort<\/li>\n<li>Combining flexible, individualized integrated employment and community day services to support people to have full lives<\/li>\n<li>Coaching the coaches: How to teach employment specialists the skills to be effective trainers<\/li>\n<li>Strategies for supporting individuals with disabilities and their families in a changing system<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of WIOA and how is it impacting individuals with disabilities, families and providers<\/li>\n<li>Tackling the tough issues in rural communities<\/li>\n<li>New Partnerships between Schools and CRPs: Supporting Student Employment Together<\/li>\n<li>Financial Planning\/Asset Development<\/li>\n<li>Apps for employment\u2014successful employment at your fingertips<\/li>\n<li>Benefits counseling\u2014Path to Self Sufficiency<\/li>\n<li>Self-Employment \u2013How to successfully be your own boss<\/li>\n<li>Pre-Employment Transition Services through Vocational Rehabilitation<\/li>\n<li>Federal and State Policy Changes Impacting Employment First<\/li>\n<li>Update on Implementation of Home and Community Based Services Rules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Board for Developmental Disabilities, Wisconsin APSE and People First Host the Fourth Annual Employment First Conference <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}