Job Match Makers: Episode 3: A Job that Combines Fishing and Woodworking!?

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Description

Hosts Brian and Sherry are joined in the studio by their Institute on Community Integration colleague, Kathia Fernandez. Kathia shares a story from her time as an employment consultant when she supported a jobseeker who had two primary interests: fishing and woodworking. She describes the ups and downs of negotiating a customized job for the person at a small business that makes wooden fishing lures (...or is it fishing bait?).

Details

Date
10/7/2024 
Type
Podcast 
Publisher
Minnesota Transformation Initiative Technical Assistant Center (MTI)
Collaborators
Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota
Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston

Topics

  • Employment and postsecondary education
    • Customized employment
  • Specific disability
    • Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)