NYAPRS Note: The Addiction Technology Transfer Center network and NYAPRS are partnering to offer this webinar and in person training series with NYAPRS own Len Statham, Employment and Economic Self Sufficiency Specialist. These workshops and webinars are designed to assist staff who are working with people with mental health and/or substance use issues or people who have co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, to break down barriers to employment and economic self-sufficiency. Learning Collaboratives are now forming in seven areas across the State to facilitate your attendance. See below and the application attached for details of a venue near you. Registration is free and it’s easy. Just click on one of the links below or contact David Dalton, Program Manager, NeC-ATTC; Dalton@ndri.org, 212-845-4463 for more information. Please join us and the NeC-ATTC for this important training opportunity.
Join the NeC-ATTC Learning Collaborative:
Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency
Overview: In the context of system transformation already underway across the country toward a recovery model that infuses performance-based outcomes such as employment, it is imperative that providers be given the tools and curricula necessary to support people in recovery move out of poverty and into employment and economic self-sufficiency. ATTC-NYAPRS Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency Learning Collaboratives are designed to give providers the tools they need to assist those in recovery on their journey into Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency.
Overall Objectives: Learning Collaborative participants will be able to:
- Describe the concept of economic self-sufficiency (ESS) to participants enrolled in their programs
- Integrate financial wellness in employment assessments and individualized recovery treatment plans
- Build a culture that supports financial wellness and work
- Identify action steps for implementation
- Prepare and deliver financial wellness plans in a group setting
- Support participants’ to measure their individual progress and outcomes in using the financial wellness curriculum and gather meaningful data for quality improvement and program evaluation
Training & Technical Assistance: All Registrants for the Learning Collaboratives will be offered:
- Training (Regional forums) organized as one-day, in-person, classroom sessions. This will introduce the Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency curriculum to participants and provide the skills necessary to teach the curriculum effectively and use it with clients.
Please register for ONLY ONE of the seven regional forums listed on the next page
- Technical Assistance (Webinars) will be delivered as a six-part webinar series (once per month beginning in April ‘14 and ending in September ‘14). Webinars will be accessible by all who participate in the regional forums and this technical assistance will address:
- Modules 1 & 2 – Creating culture of Economic Self Sufficiency
- Module 3 – Creating financial wellness plans
- Module 4 – Integrating financial wellness plans into assessments
- Module 5 – Tracking outcomes
- Module 6 – Quality improvement and program evaluation
Note: You do not need to register separately for the Webinar Series
Regional Forums
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March 3, 2014 |
Albany |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: The Addiction Care Center of Albany, 90 McCarty Ave., Albany NY 12202 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22725 |
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March 5, 2014 |
White Plains |
10:00 – 5:00 |
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Venue: White Plains Library, 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains NY |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22726 |
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March 17, 2014 |
Rochester |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: Coordinated Care Services Inc., 1099 Jay Street, Building J (3rd Floor) Rochester NY 11461 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22727 |
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March 19, 2014 |
Long Island |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (Charles K. Post Building), 998 Crooked Hill Rd Brentwood NY 11717 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22728 |
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March 20, 2014 |
New York City |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: National Development & Research Institutes, 71 West 23rd St (4th Floor), New York NY 10010 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22729 |
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March 24, 2014 |
Saranac Lake |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: Adirondack Medical Center, Redfield Room. 2233 State Route 86 Saranac Lake, NY 12983 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22730 |
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March 25, 2014 |
Binghamton |
9:30 – 4:30 |
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Venue: Broome County Library (Decker Room), 185 Court St, Binghamton NY 13901 |
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Registration Link: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/423/mtglistproc.asp?formid=necmeet&caleventid=22731 |
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Trainer: Len Statham, Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency Specialist, NYAPRS
Contact: David Dalton, Program Manager, NeC-ATTC; Dalton@ndri.org, 212-845-4463
Six (6) OASAS credentialing hours are available for those who complete the one-day regional forum