Claire E Benway
- Coordinator
- MA, PCT Mentor Trainer
- cebenway@umn.edu
- Phone
- +1 612-301-3440
- Address
- Inst on Community Integration
150 Pillsbury Dr SE [map]
Ste 204
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0226
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
- Community life
- Community supports and services
- Consumer/self-directed services
- Faith communities
- Friendships and social relationships
- Person-centered planning and practices
- Quality outcomes
- Self-advocacy and self-determination
- Social inclusion
- Community supports and services
- Culture and diversity
- Women
- Women
- Direct support workforce
- Retention and recruitment
- Supervision and mentoring
- Training
- Workforce development strategies
- Retention and recruitment
- Education practices (K12 and transition)
- IEP development
- Inclusive education
- Inclusive service learning
- Instructional strategies
- Mentoring of youth
- Paraprofessional and teacher development
- Student learning strategies
- Transition planning
- IEP development
- Educational accountability and assessment
- Accessibility & Accommodations
- Accommodations and supports
- Intellectual/Cognitive Disability
- Accessibility & Accommodations
- Employment and postsecondary education
- Accommodations and supports
- Assistive/adaptive technology
- Day training and habilitation
- Employment and workforce development
- Accommodations and supports
- Health and safety
- Emergency/disaster preparedness
- Mental health supports
- Emergency/disaster preparedness
- Housing and residential services
- Institutions and deinstitutionalization
- Institutions and deinstitutionalization
- Specific disability
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)
- Mental health and/or chemical dependency
- Multiple disabilities
- Intellectual/developmental disability (IDD)
- Specific life stage
- Adults
- Adults
Activities
- Technical assistance
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