Webinars and Live CoPs
Facilitating Accommodations in the Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work (SAW/RTW) Environment
This webinar provides information on identifying appropriate accommodations for injured workers; assisting the injured worker in exploring various accommodations; and assisting the employer in understanding the importance of accommodating the injured worker.
Subject Matter Expert: Curtis Richards, Senior Policy Fellow
at Institute for Educational Leadership
Moderator: Mona Kilany, PhD, American Institutes for Research
Date: September 24, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: Facilitating Accommodations in the Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work (SAW/RTW) Environment
In this webinar, David Leon of the Virginia Department for
Aging and Rehabilitative Services and Leslie Dawson of the Alabama Department
of Rehabilitation Services present information, data, and case studies to
demonstrate why vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies can be valuable RETAIN
partners, and how to work with them effectively.
Subject Matter Expert: Leslie Dawson, MA, CRC, NCC, Alabama
Department of Rehabilitative Services; David Leon, Deputy Director, Virginia
Department of Aging and Rehabilitation Services
Moderator: Jeremy Rasmussen, American Institutes for
Research
Date:
August
27, 2019
Duration: 60
minutes
Link: Maximizing
Workforce Partnerships: How Vocational Rehabilitation Can Be a Valued Partner
in Your RETAIN Initiative
Integrating Business and Health Care Perspectives: Where SAW and RTW Fit
This live CoP provides information on building allies across
employer and health care organizations, finding common ground, and measurable
workforce health and performance results. It explores business and health care
perspectives, and discusses common interests and measures, gaps, and
opportunities.
Subject Matter Expert: Kimberly Jinnett, PhD, MSPH
Date: August 22, 2019
Link: Integrating
Business and Health Care Perspectives: Where SAW and RTW Fit
Enhancing SAW/RTW Outcomes Through Employer Engagement
This live CoP provides information on ways to engage with
networks that are already in existence; capture their interest and begin
training with them; and build statewide capacity within the business services
team and overall workforce system.
Subject Matter Expert: Derek Shields, Disability Inclusion SME
Date: August 8, 2019
Link: Enhancing
SAW/RTW Outcomes through Employer Engagement
RETAIN Partners: Co-Leading Systems Change for American Workers at Risk
This webinar provides information on checking in on strategic
partnerships and development issues; implementation challenges and successes;
systems alignment; and integration ideas to build strong partnerships going
forward.
Subject Matter Expert: Joseph M. Ashley, RhD, CRC
Moderator: Mona Kilany, PhD, American Institutes for
Research
Date: July 16, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: RETAIN
Partners: Co-leading Systems Change for American Workers At Risk
Early Intervention Strategies for Employers
This webinar explores evidence-based information on what employers
need to know about early intervention strategies to keep their staff employed
after illness or injury.
Subject Matter
Expert: Heather Lore,
IAIABC; Steve Wurzelbacher, NIOSH, Brian Chin, CWCS
Moderator: Ann Outlaw, American Institutes for Research
Date: May 21, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: Early
Intervention Strategies for Employers