The LEAD Center is hosting a webinar on how registered apprenticeships attract jobseekers to the direct support professional (DSP) profession, improve their job quality, and expand career opportunities for DSPs. Workforce professionals will share best practices on utilizing registered apprenticeships and key findings from the LEAD Center’s recent brief, “Attracting Direct Support Professionals: Advancing Career Pathways with Job Quality in Mind,” will be shared, including supporting DSP-related unions and union organizing, encouraging advancement and wage progression into higher-paying, related professions, supporting DSPs’ pursuit of credentials and college degrees to reach career goals, and encouraging people with disabilities and others who want to work to become DSPs.
Speakers:
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Leah Cadena-Igdalsky, Associate, Social Policy Research Associates
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Kris Palmer, Senior Associate, Social Policy Research Associates
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Dan Paris, Supervising Apprenticeship Training Representative, New York State Department of Labor, Division of Employment and Workforce Solutions
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Sarah Wilson-Sparrow, Vice President, Workforce Development & Community Education, SUNY Schenectady County Community College
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Lauren Lankau, Assistant Vice President, Workforce Development & Community Education, SUNY Schenectady County Community College
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Jane Canale, Human Resources Director, Liberty ARC
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James Papaliosas, DSP Journeyworker, SWEP Job Coach, Liberty ARC
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Caroline Ryan, Deputy Director, Center for Innovation and Partnership at the Administration for Community Living
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Lauren Smith, Apprenticeship Training Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship
This webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 13 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Click here to learn more and register for the webinar.