DSD eList announcement
Date: March 18, 2019
To: Day and employment disability service providers and all interested parties
From: DHS Disability Services Division
Purpose: To announce free upcoming trainings on organizational change for day and employment service providers who serve people with disabilities
Contact: Direct questions to Berenise Reyes-Albino at 617-287-4312 or via email at berenise.albino@umb.edu
Free training for day and employment disability service providers
Join disability employment expert Genni Sasnett this April for a one-day training session, “Transforming Organizations to Transform Services.” The training, offered in three different Minnesota cities, focuses on the organizational changes required to support innovation and transformation in the areas of employment and community integration.
Event details
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Registration begins at 8 a.m.)
Dates (pick one):
Audience: Agency leadership of Minnesota day and employment disability service providers (including lead financial/business staff). Agencies are encouraged to send a team to this training.
Price: Free
Registration: Pre-registration is required. Go to the Transforming Organizations to Transform Services page to register.
Meals: Morning and afternoon refreshments provided. Lunch will be on your own.
Learning objectives
This training will help attendees as their agencies shift from center-based services to new models that support people with disabilities in their communities. This shift requires agencies to consider the implications for how their organizations operate. The training will include information on how to:
About Genni Sasnett
Genni Sasnett is an independent consultant and was the former COO of St. John’s Community Services on the east coast. She has more than 35 years of experience supporting people with disabilities of all ages. Genni was instrumental in starting one of the first supported employment programs in the District of Columbia in 1987. She went on to become the project director for the State-Wide Systems Change for Supported Employment federal grant for the District of Columbia from 1991-1994.
Genni was a driving force in converting St. John’s from a facility-based agency to one that provides 100 percent of its services in community settings. Her particular area of interest is the conversion of facility-based services (e.g., sheltered workshops and facility-based day programs) to facility-free supports (e.g., community employment).
Genni has worked extensively with providers to support them as they transform services. She consults with a range of organizations across the country, including as a:
Background
These training sessions are offered by the Minnesota Technical Assistance Project (MN-TAP). MN-TAP is funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services through an innovation grant to the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston in partnership with the Institute for Community Integration at the University of Minnesota.
MN-TAP is working with providers in Minnesota to enhance opportunities for people with disabilities for employment, community engagement and support transformation.
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