Where
This is an online event.Learning From Our Best Teachers: Individuals with Disabilities Explore Independence at Home and Work
Join Chuck Goodwin for this series focused on individualized long term supports. There are guest presenters, supplemental field activities and opportunities to interact with the instructor! Employment, residential and community inclusion providers are encouraged to attend this free series.
My Program for Success: Learning to Deal with Anxiety, Frustration and Stress at Home and Work
Julie Carpenter Graduated from the Federal Way High School Transition Program in 1991. She had already begun a full-time job at The Boeing Company sorting and delivering mail. She worked successfully at Boeing for 29 years despite the fact that she was unable to read. She feels she has often been underestimated, judged, and labeled without people getting to know her. She developed a unique strategy for dealing with stress frustration and anxiety at home and work. Using Julie’s experiences, this class will look at how to set up support on the job and at home that utilizes the person’s strengths, understands some of the struggles a person with disability faces, and introduce you to her unique teddy bear program that identifies feelings and helps her deal with stress.Learning objectives:
- Discover how to not underestimate people based on labels
- Learn methods of empowering individuals to succeed based on skills
- Identify how to get beyond behavior plans and programs to allow individuals to develop self-management strategies
- Understand how to facilitate individuals working through difficult issues
- Explore a unique example of an individual developing a strategy for navigating life’s up and downs
Julie Carpenter
Julie Carpenter is a working professional in the Federal Way area. She worked at Boeing for 29 years sorting mail and completing various other administrative tasks. Julie has created her own self-management program that features pictures of bears that help her control and identify her emotions. She currently is a Training Consultant for the organization, Enso, and presents to a wide variety of groups about looking beyond disability labels, getting to know the person and their strengths, and not putting a person’s disability under the spot light, along with her coping strategies. Julie hopes by sharing her story she can encourage others to find their own way.