CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
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October 11, Friday, Doors Open at 8:30am – Program 9am – Noon at the Springbrook’s Oneonta Community Campus, 5588 State Highway 7, in Oneonta
Presenter: Janine Kruiswijk, Executive Director of the Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region
The Seminar will cover what the Autism Spectrum is, how it may present in the workplace, onboarding and retention best practices, review of possible accommodations, and addressing stigma and false assumptions about Autism.
Janine Kruiswijk has been the executive director of the Autism Society of the Greater Capital Region since 2009. She previously served as the executive director of the Family Resource Network of Oneonta, New York. She has many years of experience supporting children, youth and adults with exceptional needs, providing community leadership, and promoting policy changes on behalf of families and individuals. Janine has her BS in Sociology from The College of New Rochelle. She is the parent of four children, one of them with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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CDO Workforce and Family Resource Network are co-sponsoring a seminar about how to establish and grow your ABLE Accounts and ADA Basics for Job Seekers.
The seminar will explain the eligibility requirement and how to establish an ABLE Accounts. ABLE accounts help eligible individuals with disabilities save for their futures without jeopardizing their public benefits.
It is not required that you be receiving public benefits to have an ABLE account as there are significant financial advantages of having an ABLE account that can often outweigh other types of long-term savings tools.
Also ADA information will be provided about disclosing a disability in the workplace.
Interested in learning more about ABLE Accounts or about disclosing your disability? For more information about the seminar call 607-432-4800 x 109 or e-mail: .
To register online, go to www.familyrn.org and click on the News and Events link and then the Events Calendar.
To register by phone call Joleane at 607-432-0001
When: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, 9:30am - 11:30am
Where: Elm Park Methodist Church, Oneonta, NY
When: September 4th 1:30PM – 2:30PM
Where: Norwich CDO Workforce Center
1 O’Hara Drive
Norwich, NY
Find out how to make a good impression at a Job Fair. Be prepared to meet employers and ask the questions that will get you noticed. Find out what to expect at a Job Fair. Learn how to prepare for a successful visit to a Job Fair.
See a Career Services Staff to schedule to attend this workshop or call (607) 334-2201, ext. 127
This two-day seminar will give employers and investigators an understanding of the tools needed to plan and conduct interviews, gather, organize and review different types of evidence, draw appropriate conclusions, document an investigation and make the right recommendations for actions.
In this seminar, participants will learn crucial interview techniques to gather appropriate and relevant information and how to recognize truthful and deceptive behavior. This seminar is interactive and involves group breakout sessions.
Where: Mid York Library System, 1600 Lincoln Ave., Utica, NY 13502
When: Sept. 11th at 8:30am and Sept 12th at 9:00am
TO REGISTER: E-mail
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, September 3, 2019
$145 per person - Advance Payment Required
Check and Credit Card payments accepted
Please make checks payable to “JSEC” or to arrange for a credit card payment email
Send payment to: CDO Workforce, Attention: JSEC, 12 Dietz St.,
Oneonta, NY 13820.
CANCELLATIONS are required by 4 p.m. on the Friday prior to the seminar. Reservations made and not kept may not be refunded. Substitutions are allowed.
Light Breakfast & Lunch Provided
National Disability Voter Registration Week (officially July 15th-July 19th) promotes community involvement and civic participation across the country with a focus on registering individuals with disabilities to vote.
The Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. (RCIL), in collaboration with Disability Rights New York (DRNY), is offering free community voter education and registration events in honor of National Disability Voter Registration Week. These events mark the anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which occurred on July 26, 1990. To learn more about these events, and dates and times, click here.
Five Things to Remember About Voting
13 Things Voters with a Disability Need to Know
Transportation to the Polls - Tips
Hiring Workers with Disabilities
Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education.
