Changing Staff Roles
Does your organization want to expand its employment options to include customized employment and downsize its facility-based services? If so, this shift may require a new or different way of doing business including changes in staff roles and job descriptions. Learn how to answer staff questions about how a shift in providing services may impact the agency and their jobs. Changing Staff Roles Fact Sheet

Creating a Diversified Funding Base
Customized employment involves individualizing the employment relationship between a job seeker or an employee and an employer in ways that meet the needs of both. Many customized employment outcomes are supported by blending multiple funding sources. Community organizations providing customized employment services will benefit greatly from tapping into a diversified funding base. Read about strategies that address the challenges and opportunities with diversified funding. Creating a Diversified Funding Base

Register for the upcoming webcast on "Fading Job Place Supports" by Dr. Teresa Grossi, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, October 18, 2004, 2 PM ET, Followed by a Live Chat Room

One of the major elements to the success of employment services is to create effective partnerships and lasting relationships in the workplace that meet the needs of both the employee and the business. In this session, participants will learn strategies for fading supports, how to identify and cultivate workplace supports, and how effective communication and planning are essential elements of a solid support plan. Register online for the webcast or Email us for more information 

The Contradictions of Leadership: Making Customized Employment Work - By Cary Griffin & Dave Hammis, Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

Business ownership, and other Customized Employment options, do not happen by accident. Creating inventive career opportunities with consistency and quality requires leaders and management systems dedicated to redirecting funds, rethinking policy, changing practices, engaging consumers and families, forging partnerships, and investing in staff. Griffin and Hammis offer Ten Contradictions as a starting point in re-thinking our roles as leaders. Paper on the Contradictions of Leadership