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In
addition to the Keynote Speaking Services
offered by Warren Advisements and Empowerment, are consultation
services.
After years of experience, Randy is able to offer the following
Workshops:
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Staff / Corporate Training Workshop
This disability awareness workshop is designed to provide the service
industry with a broad base of knowledge in dealing with the client with
a disability. Retailers and Restaurateurs are sure to benefit from this
fact-filled experience. Content includes an overview of disability both
apparent and invisible, etiquette and people with disabilities, and site-specific
barriers identification.
As the population of people with disabilities increases (currently 10-15%
of society), so does the need for the responsible business owner to ensure
access and service. It is also a question of revenue and increasing customer
appeal. It is also well documented that becoming "disability-friendly"
also attracts seniors who often face the same barriers as people with
disabilities.
Why should I be concerned about Disability Awareness?
It only makes good business sense that you ensure the broadest possible
customer base, and certainly 10-15% of society is a market that cannot
be ignored.
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Integrating People with Disabilities into my workforce! (Workshop)
More
and more people with disabilities are integrating themselves into
the workforce, often in careers heretofore not considered. Along
with this new
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working environment come new concerns. Preparing an environment to
receive
people with disabilities as an employer, and from the perspective
of co-workers is a wise move to ensure a comfortable environment for
all. Accommodating people with disabilities is often a lot simpler
and cheaper than people realize. With more and more incentives to
hire people with disabilities, employers are taking advantage of these
programs, but not considering the human element. |
This workshop deals
with interaction and approach issues for the co-worker. With a very open
approach, Randy delivers a sensitization workshop that really addresses
fears and questions that should be asked and answered. Often the fear
of integration is lack of information. Many people with disabilities entering
the workforce do not want to answer or address those questions as it makes
them uncomfortable and separates them from their co-workers. Having an
outside force come in can truly ensure that an environment of inclusiveness
and teamwork remains and thrives. Sensitizing your workplace before integration
makes the addition of new people seamless.
Another component available for this workshop is trouble-shooting. Did
you integrate before sensitizing, and are there resentments and miscommunications
as a result? This would be the workshop for you!
Integrating People
with Disabilities into my Classroom environment! (Workshop)
The same issues often arise in integrating a person with a disability
into the classroom, particularly when they are the first one. Using his
own life experiences, Randy opens a conversation with students of any
age, which answers the questions they may have about differences and focuses
thought processes on those things all people have in common!
Surprisingly, it is often not the students who are most concerned about
people with disabilities, but the educator who comes with a lifetime of
misconceptions, stereotypes, and therefore fears. Randy's refreshing approach
helps to dissolve these dated notions and develops a climate of acceptance
and understanding.
Randy is particularly adept at tailoring this workshop for the specific
disability issues that will arise without the embarrassment of focus on
one individual.
Other Disability-Related
Workshops
If the subject is disability, Randy is your man! Whether presenting a
full seminar or facilitating discussions, his expertise and experiences
make him a dynamic addition to any event. His open nature and interpersonal
skills provide for an environment conducive to learning and communication.
Randy's many life experiences, as both a consumer and a service-provider,
make him uniquely situated to facilitate workshops or deliver seminars
on a wide variety of topics, including, but not limited to:
- Cross Disability (What is disability?
Myth Debunking! Sensitization is sensible!)
- Disability Rights are Citizenship Rights!
(An exploration of issues affecting people with disabilities and current
advocacy topics, understanding disability advocacy)
- Home Care / Attendant Care (Trends,
Issues in Hiring / Employing / Expectations, the new Attendant: self-direction)
- Integration is lonely Segregation!
(Have we gone too far? What is integration? What are quotas? What is
Employment Equity? Lonely at the High School Dance! Institutional Living)
- Sexuality (self-imagery, abuse,
self-gratification, manners and behavior, responsibility, grooming,
sexuality)
- Growing Up Disabled (issues affecting
youth and young people with disabilities)
- History and Culture of Disability
Consultation Services
Randy also offers
consultation and workshop services from other aspects of his successful
career:
- Thinking Outside of the Box! (Making
charities more relevant, reinventing existing charities, new image -
new thinking, adding new life to old ways of doing things)
- Event Planning
- Media (media strategies, training)
- Strategic Planning
- Brainstorming
- Organizational Reviews
- Fundraising (resource management,
traditional and non-traditional fundraising, grant proposals and writing,
decreasing dependency and expanding sources)
- Advocacy (new thinking and new
approaches, goal-setting and tracking)
- Program Planning (creation, development,
implementation)
- Independence Program Development
(for people with disabilities)
All services provided by Warren Advisements and Empowerment hold to the
ethics of transparency, directness, and relevancy. Randy is a consultant
who believes in the personal approach and follows that through in product
delivery. All products delivered are frank, readable and usable. If Randy
can't do it, he will refer you on to someone who can!
Important
Announcement:
Coming Soon --- Thalidomide & I --- the book!
Randy is currently working on his autobiography. Follow the life of
Randy and the history of Thalidomide. A frank emotional book that
gives new meaning to life's journeys and fate. One man can make a
difference! |
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