Career Pathways

CP 2020 Summer Academies

Check out the post secondary training opportunities at the Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center.
This residential facility provides training options to individuals with disabilities in the state of Virginia. If you are interested contact your Vocational Rehabilitation counselor or local VR office

Like to listen to podcasts?

The VR Workforce Studio highlights vocational rehabilitation stories here in Virginia.

The VR Workforce Studio website and podcast focuses on Individuals with Disabilities and stories of employment including training and education, vocational rehabilitation and celebrates the champions of employment who hire people with disabilities as well as vocational rehabilitation professionals and the work they do to create hope and a path forward to employment for people with disabilities so they can work and lead better lives.

Explore and listen to podcasts at https://vrworkforcestudio.com/

• CPID impact on VR services (Manager's Meeting)
• Vocational Assessment; Student Driven Choice
• Are 20% of Your Students or Workforce Being Left Behind because you don't know what you don't know?
• CPID Training for VR Professionals
• IPE and Counselor Training
• ABE Presentation

Best Practice Series

• Assistive Technology Loaner Library
  An Assistive Technology/ Occupational Therapist describes the successful use of AT in the classroom and at work initiated during the VACPID.
  • Best Practices: Assistive Technology for Career Training and at Work
  • Logistics and Manufacturing Assistive Technology
• Addressing Sensory Issues
  An Assistive Technology/ Occupational Therapist describes the development and deployment of sensory kits and strategies developed to help DARS clients on the autism spectrum self-regulate and remain focused in training and at work.
  • Best Practices: Clients with a Neurodiversity Diagnosis and Sensory Issues
• Assistive Technology Sensory Aids
  A chart of Sensory Aids for use by Occupational Therapists for sensory-based interventions and accommodations/adaptations. These are used in combination with a thorough assessment and individualized according to an individual’s specific needs.
  • Best Practices: Sensory Aids
• Autism, Manufacturing Training, and Career Pathways Success
  The Manufacturing Technology (MT) training program is a highly specialized course based on the techniques and interrelationships found in high performance manufacturing and production. This documents a soft skills curriculum developed for WWRC and fully integrated into the MT program over two years, leading to a high rate of successful outcomes for students with no previous work experience.
  • Best Practices: Autism, MT Training and CPID Model for Success
  • MTT-RG Curriculum Guide
• Bridge to Career Pathways Training
  A description of the VACPID partnership with Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (VALRC) and Adult Education that established a bridge course for VR clients who were good candidates for career training, but who needed trade-related academics and training in soft skills in order to be successful.
  • Best Practices: VR and Adult Educations’ Bridge Program
  • Counselor Overview: Bridge Program
  • Info Session for Bridge
  • Technology for Remote Supports
• Career Interest Academies for Youth and Adults
  Opportunity for candidates to explore high tech careers that allow them to participate in hands on activities. VACPID hosted 39 academies for youth and adults.
  • Best Practices: VACPID Academies
  • Academy Save the Date Flier
  • Academy Report Example
  • 2019 Robotics Academy Blank Application
  • PPT National Rehab Association Conference: Hot Topic Academies to Attract Youth to Modern Manufacturing
  • PPT VECAP Conference: Power of Hands on Career Exploration
• Enhancing Co-enrollments with one WIOA Workforce Center
  A dedicated effort with a career one stop that increased co-enrollments from 2 to 36 over one year by improving communications and processes. A counselor checklist and VR/WIOA flowchart is included.
  • Best Practices: Enhancing Co-Enrollments in the Hampton Region
  • PPT Hire Education Conference: Regional Interagency Workforce Partnerships
  • WIOA Flow Chart
  • WIOA Training Career Development Strategies
• Cohort Training
  The successful method initiated during the VACPID that supports cohorts of clients preparing for and or entering post-secondary training through the development of partnerships with training providers.
  • Training Partners: Community College, Adult Education and Private Partners
• Counselor Tools
  Useful information for counseling clients interested in career pathways. Includes overviews of Logistics and Manufacturing Technologies, Career Pathways and Labor Market information, joint program planning with examples, and a career pathways plan template.
  • Tour expectations
  • Activities to do while you wait
  • Guided career exploration
  • Career clusters versus career pathways
  • My career plan
  • CPID process flow for DBVI
  • Next step directions
  • My next steps
  • First steps
  • Marketing first steps
• Paid Internship Program
  An internship model with successful employment outcomes that provided candidates with credentials the opportunity to demonstrate their skill sets and what they learned in their training programs. The VR business manager develops the business relationship, defines the work objectives and employer expectations.
  • Best Practices: VACPID Paid Intership
• Developing Partnerships with Employment Associations
  Explores how VACPID worked with the Virginia Manufacturers Association and the Northern VA Technology Counsel. Overviews the relationship and opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
  • Best Practices: Developing Partnerships with Employment Associations
  • Lean Assessment Overview
• Serving Clients on Delayed List
  The Career Pathways Counselor describes the group method used to reach out to VR clients on the delayed list, some waiting as long as two years, to introduce and evaluate these individuals to career pathways.
  • Best Practices: Serving VR Clients on the Delayed List
• Vocational Evaluators and Career Pathways
  Describes the evolution of career pathways-oriented assessments by VR vocational evaluators as they developed Career Pathways skill sheets, examined assessment techniques, shared resources, trained together and built an ongoing supportive network.
  • Best Practices: VR and Wilson Workforce Rehabilitation Center Evaluators
  • VECAP Conference: Assessment as a Business Engagement Strategy
  • Manufacturing Technology Skills Assessment
  • Webinar PPT: Vocational Assessments and Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities

Webinars

• Career Pathway Webinar Series for Virginia
• Part 1: WIOA, Career Pathways and Pre-Employment Transition Services
• Part 2: VA Career Pathways and a Demand Side Approach
• Part 3: VA Career Pathways: A Fully Accessible Approach
• Part 4: Vocational Assessments and CPID