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Terry Weber

 

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, Noon Central, 1 pm EST, 2 pm Atlantic, 7 pm Zurich, 8 pm Istanbul


It Takes a Community: Serving Customers with Conviction Histories

 

With the current trend of incarceration rates and recidivism, budget cuts and the need to do more with less; we need to become creative in our efforts to manage resources and develop partnerships to get the results we need for improved public safety.  With the greatest restrictions on housing and employment, collaborative efforts and targeted services provide improved outcomes that meet the needs.  We will discuss targeted workshops, setting customer expectations and continuous engagement provided in Washington WorkSource offices (One-stop locations) and one county’s demonstrated outcomes from collaborating with the community.
 
Contact:
Terry Weber
Offender Employment Services
Program Coordinator
WorkSource Mason
Programs Supervisor
POB 9046
Olympia, WA
360-427-2241 or 360-438-4708
tlweber@esd.wa.gov
www.wa.gov...

 

Bio


Terry Weber is a Program Coordinator for Washington’s Employment Security Department Offender Employment Services (OES). In addition, he is the Supervisor over all programs WIA, UI and TANF at WorkSource Mason County.  He coordinates OES program’s activities statewide, provides technical assistance and manages state contracts that provide direct services to persons with convictions.  His additional duties in the One-stop office is to re-organize programs’ efforts due to the growing numbers of job seekers needing services and due to reduced funding, staffing and resources to maximize efforts and improve outcomes. Terry has worked on offender and reentry issues for over 38 years to raise community awareness and build reentry bridges as well as provide educational opportunities for people with convictions to become positive and productive citizens, family and community members. 


Activity: “Designing your life…” 

 

I use this technique to help people overcome self-imposed limitations or beliefs…”no one is going to hire me because I have a conviction!” (see SLIDE 3 of speaker's powerpoint).  If you believe it,  then it will be your truth. It can be used by individuals with convictions and really anyone, including career practitioners who support clients.

 

There are 5 steps or “conditions” to create a positive and emotionally charged statement or “affirmative reminder":

 

  1. Personal (I Statement)
  2. Positive Statement (focusing on where you want to be and what you want to have)
  3. Positive Emotion added to the Statement
  4. Realistic (having the skills to market yourself effectively)
  5. Present Tense

 

I will take the audience through the 5 steps and provide them with techniques to reinforce the message to achieve desired outcomes.  

 

Following are example of each "I" statement.  Write the “I” statements so they are personal and you own it:

 

  1. Positive Example:  "I am successfully employed at a job I enjoy."
  2. Positive emotion
  3. Realistic
  4. Present tense


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Growth of U.S. Prison System

 

Terry recommends viewing the Proliferation video below on growth of the prison system in the United States. Paul Rucker created the concept, played all the instruments, and recorded the music.

 

Timeline

Green Dots: 1778-1900

Yellow Dots: 1901-1940

Orange Dots: 1941-1980

Red Dots: 1981-2005

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Introduction

Terry Weber is a Program Coordinator for Washington’s Employment Security Department Offender Employment Services (OES). In addition, he is the Supervisor over all programs - WIA, UI and TANF at WorkSource Mason County.   Terry has worked on offender and reentry issues for over 38 years.
Terry, career advisors in your programs and in similar programs all over the country are facing the same problems as their clients - fear of being laid off, being overwhelmed with responsibility, resulting stress and physical challenges - What do you suggest we do to meet the needs of the growing number of job seekers (including career advisors who are bring laid off) and reduced funding? When I say "we", I mean career society in general, as well as workforce and DOE staff?



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Interview Questions

 

1. What are the challenges with employment with persons with conviction histories?


2. What's in it for us, as career advisors, to help our clients? (Slide 4)


3. How does Positive Psychology help individuals with conviction histories get jobs?

 

4. Could you take listeners through your 5 steps or “conditions” to create a positive and emotionally charged statement or “affirmative reminder"? (Slide 3):

  • Personal ("I" statement)
  • Positive Statement (focusing on where you want to be and what you want to have)
  • Positive Emotion added to the Statement
  • Realistic (having the skills to market yourself effectively)
  • Present Tense

5. Can we generalize the need to have positive attitudes to career practitioners working with any client population? If so, explain.

 

6. What problems did your staff face and what solutions did you come up with? Specifically have you trained your staff to help your clients? (career development process: assessment, occupational research, basic skills, soft skills; resources: WorkSource Whatcom, Re-Entry Guide) (Slides 6 - 7)

 

7. How have you managed to provide services to clients in the current state of the economy (community partnerships)? (Slide 8)

 

8. What are the results of your community partnerships? (Slides 10 - 15)

 

9. Do you have any specific examples of clients who have found satisfying work (testimonials, Slide 16)

 

10. What lessons did you learn through this experience? (Slide 17)

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Closing

 

Terry, I think most of the Washington workforce professionals, plus other career practitioners all over the country, have listened to your interview today. You have re-energized us to reach out to our communities to support our clients. Thank you. 

 

Upcoming Tele-Interviews

 

  • March 3, Courtland Lee, a former American Counseling Association President, will discuss the Dynamics of Diversity in a Global Marketplace;
  • March 10, Bob Tyra, from the Los Angeles Board of Education, will discuss his wildly successful SPARCs program in K-12, a highly sought after "academy awards" program for the schools;
  • March 17, Maureen Nelson, the most active social networking career professional that I know,  will inform us how to coach clients to write their way into a job;
  • March 24 John Merris-Coots, Director of the California Career Resource Network, California's career information website, will talk about how to provide career guidance in the schools. Until next month, this is Dr. Sally Gelardin, with Careerwell Tele-Interviews.
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