Family Employment Awareness Training – FEAT


What is the Family Employment Awareness Training (FEAT) Project?
Family Employment Awareness Training – FEAT
- A training designed for families, young adults with disabilities, and the professionals who support them.
The goals of FEAT are to:
- Increase expectations for competitive employment of the young adult with a disability
- Increase knowledge of state and federal resources to support the employment of the young adult
The Benefits to Schools, Teachers, Families & Students Schools
- Receive free, up-to-date, in-service training for special education teachers and staff Teachers
- Gain knowledge of the adult service systems · Learn about “outside the box,” customized employment possibilities
- Plan with families and young adult, increasing successful transition to adulthood and family involvement
- Meet representatives from various employment resources in your community
- Participate in follow-up technical assistance meetings to learn more about how to support students with various needs to be competitively employed Families
- Increase their understanding of transition to employment and knowledge of resources to sup port post-secondary employment of their child
- Network with other families going through transition
- Meet representatives from various employment resources in your community
- Plan for transition and employment meetings
- Participate in follow-up technical assistance meetings to support implementation of their employment plan Young adults with disabilities
- Gain knowledge of supports and services
- Brainstorm possible employment options and discuss support needs with peers
- Learn self-advocacy skills related to employment
- Gain an understanding of disability disclosure

UPCOMING FEAT WORKSHOPS
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Each family member including young adults need to register separately.
For more information, contact PTI Nebraska.