Claire E Benway
- Coordinator
- MA, PCT Mentor Trainer
- cebenway@umn.edu
- Phone
- +1 612-301-3440
- Address
- Institute On Community Integration
Masonic Institute For The Developing Brain [map]
Room 1-305B1f
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Claire Benway provides technical assistance, training and development support within the direct support profession. She works on state and federal projects focusing on improving community services for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her current projects involve training, technical assistance and state policy development in person centered thinking/planning, direct support workforce development and community living. She authors content and provides quality assurance for on-line curricula in DirectCourse. Claire is a a certified Person Centered Thinking 2 Day Mentor Trainer and holds a Masters in Theatre Education from Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts.
Projects
Products
Topics
- Direct support workforce
- Supervision and mentoring
- Retention and recruitment
- Workforce development strategies
- Training
- Education practices (K12 and transition)
- Inclusive education
- Inclusive service learning
- Instructional strategies
- Mentoring of youth
- Paraprofessional and teacher development
- Student learning strategies
- Transition planning
- IEP development
- Community life
- Community supports and services
- Faith communities
- Friendships and social relationships
- Person-centered planning and practices
- Quality outcomes
- Self-advocacy and self-determination
- Social inclusion
- Consumer/self-directed services
- Specific life stage
- Adults
- Culture and diversity
- Women
- Housing and residential services
- Institutions and deinstitutionalization
- Employment and postsecondary education
- Accommodations and supports
- Assistive/adaptive technology
- Day training and habilitation
- Employment and workforce development
- Health and safety
- Emergency/disaster preparedness
- Mental health supports
- Educational accountability and assessment
- Accommodations and supports
- Accessibility & Accommodations
- Intellectual/Cognitive Disability
- Specific disability
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)
- Mental health and/or chemical dependency
- Multiple disabilities
Activities
- Technical assistance