Webinars and Live CoPs
This webinar describes one overarching strategy that should
under gird all physician communications, including all occupational health
training. It provides information on three features of communications with
clinicians that must always be present in order to drive the success of states’
service programs and RETAIN. It also describes why it is preferable to position
a program as a service that will help to improve patient outcomes.
Subject Matter Expert: Jennifer Christian, MD, ODEP Senior Advisor to
RETAIN
Moderator: Mona Kilany, American Institutes for Research
Date: November 14, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: Outcome-Oriented
Clinician Training in RETAIN: Strategic, Collegial, Purposeful,
Tightly-Focused, and Operationally-Oriented!
Attuning Your RETAIN Program to Workers’ Concerns, Wants, and Needs
This webinar provides a review of typical questions,
concerns, wants, and needs of the target population of workers whose lives and
work have recently been disrupted by a new health problem. It provides factual
data from prior projects about the differences within this group in levels of
distress and the kinds of issues that are worrying them. In addition, it
provides more detailed information and tools to help design/engineer initial
and ongoing relationships with workers.
Subject Matter Expert: Jennifer Christian, MD, ODEP Senior Advisor to
RETAIN
Moderator: Meredith DeDona, Senior Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of
Labor
Date: November 7, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: Attuning
Your RETAIN Program to Workers’ Concerns, Wants, and Needs
This live CoP explores communications challenges and effective strategies for reaching health care providers and related audiences in RETAIN recruitment and educational outreach.
Subject Matter Expert: Shirley Kron, System Director at Catholic Health Initiatives and Recruitment
Lead for RETAIN Kentucky
Date: October 4, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: RETAIN
& Providers: Communications Strategies for Engaging Health Care Audiences
in Your Demonstration Project
Partnering for Success: Internal Communications Strategies for Working Across Organizational Silos
This guided discussion addresses ways to facilitate frequent and open communication among your RETAIN project partners. Led by communications experts from AIR and Concepts, Inc., it explores tools and team communication strategies for fostering collaboration, breaking down communication barriers, and working across organizations.
Subject Matter Experts: Mona Kilany, PhD (AIR), Greta
Menard (Concepts, Inc.)
Date: September 23, 2019
Duration: 60 minutes
Link: Partnering
for Success: Internal Communications Strategies for Working Across
Organizational Silos
Speaking Business: Communications Strategies for Engaging Employers in RETAIN
This live CoP addresses ways to communicate with employers about disability employment issues and your RETAIN demonstration projects. Speakers explore effective strategies for reaching this core stakeholder audience while framing employers’ potential involvement in your RETAIN project in a way that resonates with their business interests.
Subject Matter Experts: Rebecca Skipper and Diana
Zeitzer from Concepts, Inc.
Date: September 11, 2019
Link: Speaking
Business: Communications Strategies for Engaging Employers in RETAIN
This recorded webinar discusses communications opportunities
for RETAIN awardees related to National Disability Employment Awareness Month
(NDEAM) and other news hooks. The session explores ways to capitalize on NDEAM
2019, the Campaign for Disability Employment, and other industry observances
(link to https://retainta.org/mod/folder/view.php?id=171)
when promoting your demonstration project.
Subject Matter Expert: Greta Menard, Concepts, Inc.
Date:
August
2019
Duration: 20
minutes
Link: Making
RETAIN Timely: Capitalizing on National Disability Employment Awareness Month
and Other News Hooks
Follow the Roadmap: How Communications Can Enhance Your RETAIN Demonstration Project
This webinar helps you begin to consider how and where to infuse
effective marketing and communications into your RETAIN pilot activities.
Subject Matter Expert: Greta Menard, Concepts Inc.; Hope Adler,
Concepts Inc.
Moderator: Ann Outlaw, American Institutes for Research
Date: January 29, 2019
Duration: 50 minutes
Link: Follow
the Roadmap: How Communications Can Enhance Your RETAIN Demonstration Project