E1MN builds and provides trainings and events to support a shared understanding across the employment system.
Below is an archive of recordings of past E1MN trainings. For help finding a training resource or to get answers about E1MN, use the E1MN request form.
To access the current E1MN training, check out the E1MN training section of this toolkit.
Provider trainings include:
This webinar highlights the process to become a dually enrolled provider with 245D and VRS/SSB. Enrolling in both networks will improve access to and continuity of employment services.
Slides and recordings from the webinar:
The benefits of becoming both 245D and VRS/SSB service providers
In spring 2021, VRS held a forum on the E1 PBA for community partners and staff. The forum covered background information, milestones, payment criteria and work in progress items. View a recording of the forum (1:53:26).
The positive summary offers an at-a-glance look at key discoveries from the plan phase that can support a person-centered job search. The positive summary highlights what was learned during the plan phase to help shape work goals and future success.
Watch this training video (11:04) to learn more about the positive summary and how to use it.
Case manager trainings include:
This training covers strategies for supporting people with more significant disabilities on their path to employment. It reviews Employment First and the role of the waiver case manager, strategies for ensuring informed choice and addressing family concerns, and an overview of Customized Employment.
In your role as case manager, how can you help everyone on your case load understand that competitive integrated employment is possible for them?
What strategies have you found to address concerns a person's family has about work?
This training covers strategies for navigating shortages of employment service providers, including informal supports, non-waiver funded employment services, creative staffing options, and methods for developing new employment service providers.
Slides and recordings from the webinar:
Provider shortages and developing new providers in your area
What local resources around employment have you come across in your area?
What other ideas do you have for how to support someone's employment needs when there's a shortage of available providers?
This training covers strategies for strengthening partnerships with VRS/SSB and schools, reviews key collaboration points for youth and adult services, gives an overview of transition services for youth, and highlights resources to help you in your role.
Slides and recordings from the webinar:
Strengthening your partnerships with VRS/SSB and schools
