UCLA Tarjan Center Distinguished Lecture Series: Supporting Families in Connecting Their Adult Family Members with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Competitive Integrated Employment: A Mixed-Methods Intervention Development Project

The UCLA Tarjan Center Distinguished Lecture Series presents:

Supporting Families in Connecting Their Adult Family Members with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Competitive Integrated Employment: A Mixed-Methods Intervention Development Project

Join the Zoom livestream to learn how to:

1. Examine the processes involved with gathering input from families in developing an intervention to address barriers to successful employment outcomes
2. Discuss innovative methods for supporting families through the process of connecting their family members with IDD to paid employment

Real-time live captions and simultaneous Spanish interpretation are provided.

For more information, please contact Beth Stoffmacher (BStoffmacher@mednet.ucla.edu).

Dr. Schwartzman specializes in helping transition-aged individuals with IDD and their families navigate the process of connecting to paid employment. He is currently working with Tennessee’s Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD) to: (a) create an Employment First accreditation program for training job coaches and community provider agencies, and (b) develop a curriculum for community provider agencies to use to train and hire peer mentors with IDD. Prior to his work at Vanderbilt, as a faculty member at Foothill College, Dr. Schwartzman led the Tools for Transition and Work Program which is a community college program for young adults with IDD. Dr. Schwartzman received his Ph.D. from UCLA where he specialized in interventions for youth and young adults with autism.