Enhancing the capacity and proficiency of ACCES-VR partners in providing quality employment services.
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The CASE Plan
NYS CASE trainings provide you with the opportunity to engage in an active learning environment with peers around New York State and achieve credentials that demonstrate your competency in the field.
NYS CASE is a multi-faceted strategy that includes:
- A statewide performance baseline
- Policy and practice goals
- Training curriculum and organizational development resources
- Regional and distance training opportunities
- Organizational development support
- Evaluation of training and resources
Attending NYS CASE trainings allows you to interact with and learn from other providers from around New York State.
Who understands what you do best than your peers in the field? This is an opportunity to spend a day benefitting from multiple perspectives and sharing experiences so that others might learn.
Our experienced NYS CASE trainers have developed courses with the most up-to-date theories and practices
Courses include a wide variety of learning in the areas of supported employment, youth transition, and employer engagement. The tools and tips shared during the trainings can be applied immediately to your work.
As a job developer, one of the most important skills to learn is how to build business relationships.
NYS CASE courses train you in the best practices for developing the necessary relationships with businesses so that your clients will achieve success in the workplace.
The CASE trainings have definitely helped me expand my knowledge in the field. They have helped me understand things I can do as a vocational specialist and have given me ideas.
Cheyanne Michalek
Vocational Specialist, Baker Victory Services
How it Works
Develop Your Plan for Success
Earn Badges and Tier Certificates
Monitor Your Progress
Practitioners and managers can earn a Cornell University Certificate in four tiers:
Course 5 Contemporary Issues in Employment Services
Course 1 Orientation to Employment Services
Course 2 Assessment and Employment Planning
Course 3 Foundations of Job Development
Course 4 Foundations of Job Coaching
Course 4 Understanding Challenging Behaviors in the Workplace
Course 1 Business Engagement
Course 2 Fundamentals of Documentation & Reporting
Course 3 Supporting Long Term Success
Course 1 Contract Administration
Course 2 Program Evaluation
Course 1 Introduction to New York Services -- Students and Youth with Disabilities
Course 2 Creating a Framework for Services and Pre-ETS -- Students and Youth with Disabilities
Course 4 Developing Self-Advocacy Skills for Employment and Post-Secondary Education -- Students and Youth with Disabilities
Course 3 Authentic Engagement -- Students and Youth with Disabilities
By participating in CASE trainings for the past four years I have been able to learn so much more about job coaching, fine tuning my skills and becoming an even better job coach. I’m so thankful for the program!
Lucinda Wood
Elmira Heights, NY
The CASE Family
Having a NYS CASE account means being part of a service provider FAMILY
NYS CASE offers a variety of training opportunities to vendors of ACCES-VR employment and pre-employment transition services who have a Core Rehabilitation Services (CRS) contract. Currently, all NYS CASE training sessions are being offered using a virtual learning format.
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When people at CASE trainings give specific examples of things that have happened in the field, that is such valuable experience. It has absolutely helped me be better at my job.
William Daly
Employment Specialist, Able Community Services Inc
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Create your FREE NYS CASE account now and begin registering for trainings. Your career enhancement starts here!
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The NYS CASE is sponsored by the New York State Education Department, Office of Adult Career and Continuing Education Services - Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES-VR).
The NYS CASE is a collaboration involving Cornell University’s K. Lisa Yang and Hock E.-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability (YTI), Eleversity (A division of Heritage Christian Services), and the NYS Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE).
