Job Coaching Strategies Manual and DVD

Objective: Prepare staff to be successful job coaches.

For staff working with school-to-work students on a supported employment track.

Job Coaching Strategies is a concise, goal oriented staff development program. The manual and video follow the chronology of a successful job placement—from getting to know your client to maintaining employer relations. The manual features real-life examples to illustrate techniques and strategies, and provides useful forms like functional assessments and work site analysis. The video focuses on the successful supportive employment of Nick, a young man with multiple disabilities. Interviews with his parents, job coach and employer reinforce concepts discussed in the manual. Author Steve Tenpas has fifteen years experience teaching job coaches.

Spiralbound, 122 pgs., includes a printable PDF on a Win/Mac CD. 2002.