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Online Seminar

Description: This presentation focuses on the key components of conversion including program and fiscal planning, person centered approaches, barriers real and imagined to employment and current economic and political issues. When an organization determines that community based services focusing on employment is the road to follow, a strategic value based planning process emphasizing consumer outcomes based on individual choice, performance based staffing, fiscal accountability and business partnerships must be initiated. In today's economic and political climate, employment options must be explored with new approaches that include integrated funding streams, diversification of resources and a willingness to take reasonable risks.

Suzanne Hutcheson has been the President/CEO of HPS, Helping People Succeed, Inc. since August 1977. In that capacity, she led the organization through major organizational change from a sheltered workshop/work activity center to a totally community based organization.

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Web Resources

Suzanne Hutcheson's PPT
http://www.worksupport.com/documents/hutch.ppt

The National Supported Employment Consortium, VCU, Spring 2001 Newsletter
http://www.worksupport.com/documents/spring01.pdf

Institute for Community Inclusion, Research to Practice Newsletter, September 2001
http://www.worksupport.com/documents/rp30.pdf

The Successes and Struggles of Closing a Facility-Based Employment Service
http://usworks.org/article.php?article_id=36&type=topic&id=17

This resource was developed by T-TAP, funded by a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (Number E 9-4-2-01217). The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Department of Labor. Nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply the endorsement by the U.S. Department of Labor.