Event ID: 1198389 Event Started: 11/18/2008 8:00:00 PM ---------- Please stand by for realtime captioning. >> Hi, everyone. We'll get started in a couple minutes. Glad you could join us today. Just hold on and we'll be back really soon. >> I think it is about time get started, everyone. This is Laura fwlen he can, and I am part of the NDI institute team which serves as the national training and technical assistance provider to the disability program Navigator initiative. I want to start by thanking you all for joining us on today's webinar. I am going to be the host in which my colleagues Miranda and DJ will be talking you through the newly created DPNavigator website which you will soon learn we're all very excited about, and also they're going to walk you through the recently updated library section on the one stop tool kit website before. We get started, I want to give you a little history, put things into context. To some this is going to be new, but to others it is not. But for all of us, I think it is going to help put everything into context and framework. Prior to becoming the NDI technical assistance team, my colleagues and I were part of a law health policy and disability center of the University of Iowa's college of law, better known as LHPDC, and LHPDC served as the original training and technical assistance pre provider since 2001. Earlier this year the national DPN program office issued a competitive solicitation as required by the federal government for a new DPN technical assistance provider. However, this solicitation was limited only to small businesses, so both of us who made up the LHPDC-COR technical assistance team really loved our connection with this project, the relationships we have built over the years, and really wanted to continue this great work. Like you, we believe in this initiative and the impact that it can make and has made and more important will continue to make, so our core team formed the small business NDI consulting Inc., and joining with the national disability institute formed the NDITA team to we could respond to the proposal, and we were very fortunate to have been awarded the new contract on July 1st, so with the new contract one of the many activities was to design and develop a new DPN technical assistance website, and you're going to be seeing the birth of that website today. >>> So during today's training in addition to an overview of the DPNavigator.net site a portion of today's webinar will be dedicated to a more indepth overview of the library which is located within the grand resources section on the one-stop tool kit website. The library was recently restructured to reflect and promote the evolution of the D P N initiative, and so we're really excited to have been a part of that evolution as well. >>> So right now you might be thinking, okay, why are there two different websites? Because you might be thinking they're sim similar, and you would be right. They are meant to complement each other. DPNavigator.net is meant to be a technical assistance website. , a document repository of training and technical assistance activities, events and resources while the one-stop tool kit grantee collaborative workspace was designed to be more of the grantee website, a document repository if you will of grantee created documents, resources, and information. You're certainly going to notice crossover between the two, the one-stop tool kit includes some technical assistance, training materials, and DPNavigator.net includes some grantee created resources. >>> However, the main difference is the purpose of each of the websites. One is to maintain technical assistance and training resources, and the other, the one-stop tool kit collaborative works space is meant to maintain resources for and/or produced by grantees, and once my colleagues Miranda and DJ go through the websites, I think this is going to be a lot more clear to you. >>> I wanted to give you a little bit of information about today's presenters. Again, these are my colleagues, Miranda Kennedy and DJ Diamond. They represent our evolution with technical assistance at the national level. About four years ago, two years after the DPN program was first implemented we saw at the National Technical assistance as the national technical assistance provider the value of including representatives who had served in the role of Navigator and had an understanding of the state level structure of the DPN program including them as part of our technical assistance team, and for us we call this a best practice. >>> Prior to joining the NDI technical assistance team both DJ and Miranda served in the capacity of Navigators in addition to their Navigator roles Miranda had previously worked at the state level in Colorado, piloting the Navigator concept, bhiel DJ -- while DJ also served as a VPN state lead for Alaska while working as a Navigator. As you can imagine, they have direct experience with the DPN initiative, detailed knowledge of the state and national workforce investment system, and in their work with the national technical assistance team, they really bring a wealth of knowledge from working with the workforce investment system to help build the capacity to provide effective and meaningful participation to job seekers with disabilities, and as you notice, I refer to our group as the NDITA team and on our team we each take different roles. Miranda Kennedy is taking the lead on implementing the training curriculum and other learning opportunities for DPN grantedies, so, for instance, she is the one pulling together the webinars that you have seen and hopefully you participated in the past, and will continue to participate in the future, and DJ has been deemed our technical wizard. She is the technology one of the group, and so she is taking the lead on the development and maintenance of the website, this website, and she also works very closely with the national DPN program office on the revamping of the one-stop tool kit. While we all crossover and work on each of these aspects, we all take the lead based on our background and our experience. >>> So now before we get started let's talk about a few webinar logistics. Just a reminder, today's training is being audio and web recorded, and ar cave archive is going to be sent out on the DPN listserv tomorrow. I also want to note that you will see closed captioning in the lower right-hand corner of your screen during the PowerPoint presentation, and on the right or the left-hand side of your screen throughout today's session as DJ and Miranda are sharing their desktops with us. Information on how to access this accommodation was sent out to individuals who requested closed captioning in an e-mail. >>> Also, the sole transcript that come from the closed captioning for today's presentation will be also included in the archives recording. During today's session if at any time you experience any technical difficulties, what you're going to want to do is contact the webex support technical assistance and I am going to provide you with that number, webex is the service that you're seeing the webinar on, and they can help trouble shoot any technical difficulties you might have. So you will want to call them at 866-863-3904, and again that number is 866-963-3904. Once DJ and Miranda have completed today's presentation, we're going to take time for questions and answers, and I will share with you at that time how you can raise your hand to open your phone line and how you can submit questions questions in writing through the question and answer panel. So until then all of your lines have been 3U9 on mute. With that we'll get the training started, and I will start by turning it over to DJ. DJ, please take it away. >> Thanks, Laura. Hi, everybody. I believe I speak for all three of us meaning Laura, Miranda and myself as the NDITA team that we are really excited about being able to share this website with you today. The creation of DPNavigator.net as we often call it really was an evolutionary process. It is one when we started to create the site we spent a lot of time researching many other sites including the former TA and training provider, LHPDC's website and in doing this research we were really looking to find kind of the look and feel of what we wanted in our new website, and in that we felt it was to make the site intuitive and user friendly, and we knew from the beginning we wanted to streamline the resources, training and materials while maintaining the site accessibility and userribility. >>> As I mentioned, it was an evolutionary process, so some of you that have been taking sneak peeks at the site prior to today have noticed there have been changes and lots and lots of changes and there have even been changes made since last week. I know since last week. So one of the wonderful things about using this type of medium to provide this type of information is that it is living and it is fluid meaning that we can continue to evolve this website as the project develops and as we all know the DPN initiative has been constantly evolving since its inception, so this is a really great tool to have to be able to continue to reflect that evolution. For those of you who were users of the former T A and training site or even for those of you who may have only had cursory knowledge of that site, you'll notice that DPNavigator.net is playing an entirely different ballpark, and I am not saying the old sigh was bad for the new site is better, I am just trying to say they're different, and that is because as the NDITA team we decided to really focus on and promote where the DPN initiative is today, and in reflecting that evolution, in the site's design and materials in trainings and resources you will notice that some of the older resources and trainings which happened in 2002, 2003, 2004, you will notice that some of those are missing from this site and it is not that they're missing, they're actually going to end up in a section that we'll call the archives which I will be talking about later, but with that we'll go ahead and actually get started here. >>> You will notice that Miranda has pulled up the website for us, and Miranda is going to be taking the technical control for me so I can really focus on what I am saying. One of the first things you will notice we have the disability program Navigator logo in the upper left-hand corner. For those of you who used the one-stop tool kit website you will notice this logo look says pretty familiar meaning it is the same graphic, but it is different colors. We obviously wanted to provide the same graphics because we want to do have continuity with branding the DPN initiative, and I think that feeling also comes from the DPN national program office which is why they were willing to share that logo with us. You will notice in the maroon across the top here we have several buttons so Miranda is highlighting the home button, and the what's new we have training, resources, Navigator FAQs, who we are and the site index. This maroon bar is really your main navigation tool. This is an option to get to the contact desk button. You can see we have room to add more buttons which we certainly plan on doing and we'll talk about that later. >>> One of the really nice things about this is the menu it right at the top of the page making it for accessible for screen readers. Two, for those that do have visual impairment or low vision, the roll over of changing the lor from the maroon to the yellow helped helped queue that this is a place that can be clicked on meaning it is an additional link. We're right here on the home page. You will notice underneath the home page and this will be consistent throughout the site, a blue address bar right underneath the red menu bar that will tell you the name of the site, DPNavigator, and where you are. For example, this says home page 1. >>> I am not going to read you everything on the home page. You are all very capable of looking at that, but you will notice there is a map here. This map may look a little bit different to some of you than the map that praps you're finding on other sites. This is the most updated version at this point. We will try and keep the most updated version of this map on this site at all times. There might be changes to this as states decide to enter into cooperative agreements with the national program office so that may change, but more importantly as you look down here you will notice, and this is kind of a constant theme throughout the site, too, it too, says for more information click here. >>> Our idea like I said in building this site was to really make it as simple as possible and to not in-undate the user with lots and lots of information, so you will notice after clicking here Miranda brought us to the second part of the home page which just gives you a quick bulleted breakdown about the things Navigator will do. Again, this is general information designed for even the most novice user. If you select click here, this takes you into one more page which talks about what a disability program Navigator is and what they are not if we scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. >>> Again, this information was designed to be straight forward and very quick. That was -- that's part of the accessibility and userribility is again so people don't get inundated with too much information. With that I will hand it over to Miranda to talk about what's new. >> Thanks, DJ. Well, once you all have become a dwainted with the site in general which we're going over today and you start using it more regularly, the what's new page will be a good place for you to go whenever you're revisiting the site. It is part of why we have the what's new button right next to the home page. Information you will find on this what's new site is information about upcoming trainings. As you can see here we have two examples of upcoming trainings. After today we'll take off the overview of the new DPNavigator site. It will go to the training page, and you can see here if we were to click on there is an upcoming training coming in December of 2008. If you click on that link, you can see again here at the top disability Navigator you mean coming training in the blue bar with the yellow writing. There is a description of what the training is, and an overview of that, and actually this information was sent out on the tool kit listserv on Friday, and we've gotten a number of people registered on it. Tonight we'll be posting how to register for the people that haven't seen that here. That is going to be updated, and that information and the link to register will always show up in the yellow box that you see here. >>> There is just some information about the training itself. This is a good place to go if we know we send out a lot of information over the tool kit listserv, and if you happen to delete some of those e-mails or wondering where is that, you can come here and find that information about those trainings. I am going to go ahead and go back to the what's new bar here. The other information you're going to be starting to see on this page in particular we're planning on posting information about resources of the week, also as we have new documents and materials that we want to bring your attention to that are very timely, topical, what have you, different events that are happening, you will find that information posted on the what's new site. We're also really open to your ideas and suggestions if you know of something that's going on that you think others should be aware of, please let us know. DJ diamond is the person taking the lead on posting that information, but you can share it with your whoever your T A liaison is, if that's myself or Laura or DJ, and we'll get that information up here if it is appropriate to share with everyone. We do appreciate all of your feedback on that. >>> So just wanted to share that that is the type of information that you're going to be finding on the what's new page. Now, let's go ahead and have a look and see what's on the training web page which is the next bar over on the maroon bar with the yellow highlighting on training that I clicked there. This is the training page. Pretty nice and clean and we like to keep it pretty straight forward. You see as we scroll down there is an arrow that shoots up, and it shoots up from the past into the future. There is information back from 2007, trainings that we have done in 2008, and some of these are audio archives and some of these are webinar archives. I am going to go ahead and show you some examples of these training archives and the information you will find in this. >>> You will see that in each of these boxes November 2008 there is the overview of the one stop tool kit webinar we did with a link if you click on that. Let's go ahead and click on the link for the effective uses of 30-second trainings, and I will show you what you find when you click on that link. There is a lot of information. In the blue bar with yellow writing it tells you where you're at, on the Navigator site, the training, and gives you the date and information about the training followed by the below that a brief paragraph describe describing the training and the information covered, and then there is an actual link to the training itself, the archived version of it, and that's in the light blue box we find here where in purple writing it says click here to listen to the complete audio web recording of this archived presentation, so what you're going to do is just click on that, and you will have to register, registering all it is is your first name, your last name, your state, and your e-mail address, and that's because we just like to see who is accessing the trainings over time. >>> The other thing to keep in mind is unlike these live training sessions, where you're all having to dial in on your landline, the archived version of these trainings thinks up the audio -- syncs up the audio from the landline with the webinar yourself so you have to turn on your computer speakers in order to listen to the training when it is archived. That's just a little tip there. >>> If we look below, and of course the nice part before the archives is you can listen to those whenever it is convenient to you. We always send the information out the day after the live training session, but again if you don't see that e-mail coming out from the one stop tool kit you can always come on this training page and find that as well. We're hoping that will make things edsier for all of you. >>> The other great thing, and this is consistent throughout all of these training pages, you will find below how to access the archive, materials and resources, everything that was generated and developed that's related to that training will be posted here. You can see, I am sure many of you attended the 30-second training presentation, we actually have a zip file because there was 16 different PowerPoint shows and some instructions, so if you wanted to you could download the zip file, and that's in yellow here, and that will take a few minutes, but then you can transfer it directly onto your desktop. We also have each of those trainings broken down individually, so you can open them up, look at them, save them, there is a word document here with instructions for DPN 30-second trainings, and you can see it is a Word document because there is an icon to the left of it. We have the same did you want in a PD F format with the PDF logo, and all of these others below have the PowerPoint show document, and then at the very bottom, and this is consistent for all of our webinars, we will have a transcript of the webinar, and so that's what this is, a text file at the bottom. All right. I will go ahead and back out. >>> I want to show you also what it looks like some of our audio archives we have, and I will go down here to the October and November 2007 ADA audio conference series. This is a version we have now updated that we're doing again in December and it will have a lot of new information, but this is the version we did last year, and it is a two-part audio conference, and it is audio, not web, so you won't be able to see the webinar portion of it, but here at the top again you can see the description in the blue and with the yellow writing of what this is. You know at the top of the page where you're at in case you get lost. Then you also see here in yellow a little disclaimer just explaining that this information was generated under the previous T A and training provider at the University of Iowa, and the reason we give you that little disclaimer is so that you know when you're opening up documents or listening to the archive when it is referencing the TA provider and talking about University of Iowa, that that was the previous TA provider. This is important especially for newer Navigators who maybe weren't with us when we were under the University of Iowa. That's why that is up there so you don't get too confused about who is my TA provider. >>> You see there is a paragraph describing what the training was supposed to be covering. Then you see in blue with the yellow writing again this is part 1 and under that part 1 section is a description of part 1 of the training, and then the ability to link to that training, again is in the light blue, but instead of having a URL link that takes you to the webinar, and the audio archive, you just have the audio file that you can access, so you will just be listening in over your computer via your computer speakers, and we've given you three different strategies, three different formats that you can access, which ever one of these best fits your computer, you know, if you have Apple, maybe using quick time, if you have Windows, maybe the Windows immediate A I like the Mark MP3 version because you can download it to your computer and download it to the MP3 player and take it to the gym with us because with we know you love to listen to us talk while you're working out. Anyway, something along those lines. You have a couple of options here. This is all about DJ and the software folks she is working with really wanted to make this as accessible as possible. We have given you every option. Hopefully one of these works for you. >>> Again, below that you will find all of the materials and resources developed that went along with these trainings which will be a really helpful since you won't have the webinar, so cu see here we have the PowerPoint presentation that went along with this ADA audio conference series as well as an overview and presenter bios, additional DPN resources and again the transcript in Word. That's part 1. I want to indicate be aware when you're looking at this when it says two-part training, keep scrolling down because there is part 2. It is not just the one part. You will want to keep scrolling down and make sure you're capturing we often times have series of trainings, and those will all be on the same training page, and very same format. Just wanted to point that out. >>> Now I will hand it over to DJ to walk us through the resources. DJ. >> Thanks, Miranda. Well, as many of you will notice, now that she has taken us to the resources page, there are four main components of the resources page. Navigator resources, pretty self explanatory, but these are resources designed for Navigators, state lead resources, which again pretty self explanatory, designed for state leads, favorite links which were really excited about and will talk about here in a few minutes and then DPN contact charts which also is pretty self explanatory. We'll get into that. I would like to started by going to the Navigator resources page. Now, one of the things that you will notice here is that on the Navigator resources page this structure for those of you who are familiar with the one-stop tool kit and specifically the one-stop tool kit library part of our last overview of the one-stop tool kit website, webinar, you will notice that the substructure for the Navigator resources looks very much the same. Again, just like Miranda is continuously point out and I will do the same, the blue bar at the top underneath the red bar with the yellow writing tells you you're on the disability program Navigator resources page and that you're under Navigator resources. >>> What we have chosen to do is align the substructure with the maturity model categories, and the reason that we've done this is to help Navigators understand those four components of the maturity model and to help promote the use of that maturity model and those four components when looking at implementing the DPN initiative. The DPN initiative is to broad and so vast that sometimes come part mental rising it into these four categories is very helpful in the implementation. >>> So we'll start by clicking on disability expertise. Within disability expertise for those of you who are not familiar, although I think most of you are, disability expertise is -- I am sorry, relates specifically to the disability expertise within the workforce investment system, looking at the depth and breadth of that disability expertise, does it all rely on one staff member like the disability program Navigator or is it more broadly disbursed across the one stop career center. >>> So most of these articles and resources within this category are things to help increase disability expertise. The first one I just want to -- I don't want to open it bullEbut you will notice it says workforce development system PowerPoint. This is one of our older resources but for a new Navigator it is a fabulous resource because it talks all about the workforce investment system, specifically the components of the workforce investment act, what services those mandate, et cetera, so a really good place to start. You will though that we have several things in here. What I would like to do is actually, yes, Miranda is points out for us the phase of the of the DPN implementation maturity model chart which would explain those four subcategories. We have things like the VPN checklist. If we want to click on that, open that up, we'll give it just a second here to open up. >>> The DPN checklist is something that many of you if not all of you should be familiar with as many of you have purchased stated in the Navigator orientation and training series that happened earlier this year. As a quick note you will all notice that this DPN -- that this comes up with a blue screen. The reason that it comes up with a blue screen is because Miranda has altered her computer in order to accommodate her, so while you're seeing this in blue, you will not see this in blue when you open it as a document, you will see it in white, and even when you print it out, when you print it out it will also come out in white. Don't be too thrown off by the fact this is in blue. Again, this is a really good example how Miranda has accommodated herself. >>> Many of you are familiar with this DPN checklist. This is something that will provide you with that disability expertise by going through this checklist. That is the reason that it is listed under the disability expertise category. Another example of something within the disability expertise category would be the glossary of terms related to disability and employment. Sorry, Miranda, I am throwing you off a little bit. If you scroll down a little more. >>> This glossary of term sincerely a great basic glossary. This will come up in blue, but it will be white when you open it up. It is an A to Z starting with access and accessibility to accommodations, talks about the ADA, a definition of a person with a disability, et cetera, so this is a really nice tool as well to use and again it is something that would improve your disability expertise and could be used to improve the disability expertise of those within your one-stop career center, so that's why it is listed under disability expertise. >>> We're going to go ahead and get out of the disability expertise category, and you will notice we're back to the substructure, and we'll choose accessibility, and we'll just take a look in accessibility. Accessibility again talks about the physical programatic and attitudinal access. That's what the category has to do with, and you will notice that one of the things that happens is that there is some crossover like the fact that you find the DPN checklist in accessibility as well as in disability expertise, and the reason for that is because the DPN checklist has many components that specifically promote the accessibility of a one-stop career center and the overall workforce investment system. >>> The fact that we have placed the same document in multiple places was strategic, and one it was so that you as a Navigator could get back as quickly as possible or find the resources as quickly as possible because sometimes as we're learning this process and we're working with that maturity model it doesn't always seem apparent right away where something might be posted or like I said you might think of the DPN checklist as being something under accessibility and not disability expertise, so we really have tried to cross reference these resources wherever possible. >>> One of the resources I wanted to point out here was the we section 118 checklist. This is a really good example of something that is all about accessibility. It was developed by the civil rights center out of the U.S. department of labor. Again, this screen will come up blue, just Miranda's example of her accomodating herself. The disability checklist gives you some tangible items and examples from section 188 under the workforce investment act about a one-stop career center's ability or their complying with the accessibility issues, so again, this ind kind of goes through, this is a really good example. If you don't know a lot about accessibility, it is a really good place to come and started by looking at this and use this as a jumping off point to stop with your one stop career center manager. We'll go ahead and back out of this, and then briefly I just wanted to note that you will also notice the PowerPoints there and the notes underneath them in the yellow boxes. This is a consistent theme. You will notice that we do have these yellow note boxes throughout the site whenever there is something that we feel that you need to know, we put it in the yellow note box to make it apparent to you. >>> If we want to go ahead and back out, and then we'll come back to the substructure, and now we're looking at problem solving, and I am just going to open it up so you can see the list, so as you can see there are multiple things here, and your sphere of influence area will look much the same, so you get the basic idea that underneath each of these subcategories that there are multiple resources and you will notice that there are multiple resources but there are not too many resources. The reason for that again is that we don't want to overload you. We want to get you kind of the most easily accessible, the quickest resources possible, things that were typically as Laura mentioned developed by the TA and training team and/or the DPN national program office. >>> Now that we're back to the main resources page we have state lead resources. We'll click on that. Then we have DPN orientation and training materials. We'll click on that. Press pretty self explanatory. This area was specifically designed for state leads. You will notice the very first thing there is orientation template for state leads underneath the blue bar with the yellow writing. So there are also things like the DPN checklist, guidelines for marketing, the one-stop career center, seven key principles of the workforce investment act, so really a lot of these are designed to help the state lead in orienting a Navigator about their role, the Navigator's role, that is, and helping them build some of that disability expertise and understanding what those phases of the maturity model are and how to implement. Go back to the resources page. >>> The third category that we want to talk about is favorite links. This is something I think we're really all excited about. When you click on favorite links you're brought to an alphabetical list of a come pieltion of websites, and this compile Asian of websites has to do with everything, disability employment related that we use and that we hear from Navigators that they are using on a daily basis, the very first thing is the at your service welcoming customers with disabilities. This is the web course for those of you most of you if not all of you should know exactly what that is by now and hopefully many of you have your one-stops implementing that as a way to train incumbent and new staff, so if we can go ahead and go back. Thank you. >>> So again this is an A to Z listing. We have everything from the at your service to the DBTACs website, disability is natural, and more social networks, disability natural is about disability, disability is a disability social network, we have the one-stop tool kit, obviously we have the real economic impact tour which deals with asset development. We have several Social Security administration associated sites. We have ticket to work website, et cetera, so you will see there that obviously this is not the complete list, and we know that there is going to be more to add to this, and especially if those of you out there on the phone are thinking about websites that are regional or national that you feel would be a benefit, please e-mail me. We'll get to my contact information later, but please e-mail me that information because we would really like to include those. The last category under resources is the DPN contact charts. Pretty self explanatory. The very first one state leads, then the round one Nav gaitered contact chart, round 2 Navigator contact charts and round 3. These at this point seem to be updated on almost a daily basis at times. We will try and do our very best to keep those as up to date as possible and that making sure that we're getting the new contact charts posted at all times, so with that, that pretty much wraps up the resources section, so I will let Miranda talk about the Navigator FAQs or frequently asked questions. >> Thank you, DJ. The Navigator frequently asked questions. Many of you should be very familiar with the Navigator frequently asked questions, at the very least from having gone through the disability program Navigator checklist when you started off as a Navigator and were building that foundation within your first couple of months and going through that checklist. The frequently asked questions, a number of these are embedded within that checklist, and directs you back to this document. We actually -- these frequently asked questions over the course of the evolution of this project there were questions that were frequently asked by Navigators, and we did quite a bit of research into finding answers to those questions, and posting those questions with a narrative explaining what the answer was or possible best answers from talking to Navigators across the country as well as resources that would accompany those answers, organizations to be working with, documents and so on. This is an excellent, excellent resource for all of you as Navigators just because you are ex posted to it at the very beginning, it is a good place to go back to because you will have questions that come up to you six months, a year, two years, three years, into being a Navigator that you can find some of the answers to and ideas to get you jump started on how to address that issue within these frequently asked questions. >>> There is very initial basic ones. You will see also we're very good about describing is it a basic question or is it an advanced question. Basic question, you know, what's your job description as a Navigator, it is pretty lengthy. Where do you start and how do you prioritize duties? If you were to click on that link, it would give you an explanation and a number of resources to follow up on. Go ahead and go back. >>> If you were to go to other basic questions down here I am looking at question number 10, what are training activities I can coordinate for my one-stop staff to learn how to effectively serve individuals with disabilities? Click on that and there is a narrative writeup, and this is very much in the language of Navigators, it was written by Navigators, and we have a lot of great resources here. I want to point out that can back you up and support you as you're pursuing addressing that issue in your area, I want to point out that in a couple of places you will see that if you would like to receive a video via e-mail or this resource to contact DJ Diamond, and there you can see her e-mail address. >>> The thing is currently we're updating some of these resources, and we are loading them on this site as we do that. This is similar to what we're doing with the one stop tool kit library DJ will talk about later, so that information will get updated. You will see her name less and less on her as those get updated, but whenever you come across that, that's fine, just go ahead and the best thing to do is really to just copy and paste the whole description and send that in an e-mail to DJ for whatever it is you're looking for because we get a lot of e-mails saying I am looking for that video, and we have a lot of videos, so it is really helpful if you can just give us the language around it, shoot it off in an e-mail, much more likely you will get what you're looking for, and even if you can tell us where you found it, the number 10 frequently asked question. Anyway, it is helpful for us. Wanted to point that out to you. Let's back out. >>> There is a number of these where there is a basic question, and there is also a more advanced version of that same question that preceded it, so let's look at number 11, an advanced question. Now that I facilitated basic disability awareness and intefer agency training how can I help one-stop staff to remember and use the information present and also continue to learn about additional resources? That's a higher level more advanced version of the basic training question that you just looked at, so when you click on that, you're going to find even more information and resources as you can see here, it can be a little more lengthy because you asked a more difficult question, so there is quite a bit of information in there. >>> Anyway, just wanted to point this out because this is really a wealth of information that you will find on this page, and it does get updated. We want to point out you will see here an updated version. Might have originally been developed back in 2004, 2005, might have been updated in 2006 or 2007. Whenever we update information, we will put that information on here, so you will know you're looking at the most recent version of it, and some of you may have if you've gotten information from leads or what have you, it is possible that you have a slightly older version. You might want to come on this web page and look at the frequently asked questions and make sure you have the most up to date because sometimes those links change to resources, things like that. We to want make sure we don't have a lot of dead links and we have the most accurate and up to date information. We're hoping you will utilize this and give us your feedback on this, and we we can certainly grow the frequently asked questions. Currently we have 28 of these. Just wanted to draw your attention to this resource. Please hit that button as often as possible. It is a great place to start when addressing an issue. Look here. See if it is in there. Do research, do homework, and then you can reach out to the T A liaison, myself, DJ, Laura, your state lead, fellow Navigators, and gifdz you a place where you have started, done your homework, and the other thing is is the information on here makes you look incredibly intelligent, and you have a great Head Start when addressing any issue within your one-stop center or local workforce investment area. People will be impressed, and you won't have had to have done all of the legwork and rein-vented the wheel. Duke that R&D, rip off and duplicate. Weem will be impressed with you. Use the Navigator frequently asked questions and let us help you shine. >>> That's my little plug for the Navigator FAQs. DJ, why don't you go ahead and tell us who we are. >> Thank you, Miranda. As Laura noted earlier in her introduction she talked about the fact we formed a new organization in order to respond to the national program office of solicitation to provide that training so we're no longer with the University of Iowa law health policy and disability center, and we felt it was important to talk about who we are now which is NDI consulting Inc., which is also a subset of the national disability institute. >>> When you click here at the bottom of the page it takes you into the second part of the page which talks about who the NDITA team is, who they are relative to their activities and experience and again you can learn even more about the roles and responsibilities of each member of the NDI Consulting Inc. staff which would include Michael Morris, Laura Gleneck, Miranda Kennedy and myself as well as subject matter experts Sharon Brett and Elizabeth Jennings which I am sure you will all be hearing more from in February and March of next year so be on the lookout for them. >>> Again, our design with this page we really wanted to keep it simple, not give you too much information, just enough that you could get a good feel or so even someone who is not familiar with the project could get a good feel for who the NDITA team is, who really does hold that contract with the national program office to provide that technical assistance is training. >>> The next is the site index. The site index is a work in progress, just like much of this site thank goodness this is a fluid mechanism to deliver information and so it is going to change, and as this website evolves so will the site index. The site index has been designed as a kind of A to Z listing of what's available, and what we've done in this A to Z is done this through key words, so under A we had accessibility and access. We had things like the American with disabilities acted, things like asset development, under B business, C we have contact charts. You will notice those contact charts are broken out by Navigators and state leads, by NDI technical assistance staff, by the U.S. Department of Labor. Under D we have definitions, employment and disability related. This site index is really been designed to be kind of a quick reference guide if you will to the site and how to find things of particular interest to you. Unfortunately at this point we do not have an internal search engine to the site. I will tell you that as lead on this project we're looking into this, and we are in the process of looking at pricing and developing proposals to be able to add that component to this website because we feel that an internal search mechanism within the site would be great. >>> Until then we have the site index. Hopefully the site index will prove to be very user friendly to all of you. Again, we have designed this with key keywords. If you are thinking of things and as you're looking through the site undecks and you start using the site more, if you're looking for something in particular, again, please feel free to e-mail me. I might be able to direct you in the right direction and then be able to add that as a key phrase within this site index. Something to keep in mind. We'll go ahead and back out of this. I think people can get a good idea basically from what we have looked at here, and we'll go to the very last area of this site at this point, this will go and I will talk about that in just a minute. That's the contact. That's the area. The contact for immediate information about the grant from the U.S. department of labor accident employment and training administration who obviously administers it. We give you their website and from there you will be able to find additional contact information. The next thing we have done is actually broken the states down and the Navigator or -- and the TA liaison's information down. If you are a state that is associated with Laura or Miranda or myself, all you have to do is go through these three quick lists, and again the reason that they're broken out in three quick list sincerely because we wanted each of the Navigator states and projects to be aware of who their TA liaison is. I think we all know you all know who your TA liaison is, but it is always nice to have this information. >>> These are listed alphabetically, or the states are listed alphabetically A to Z so you can do a quick reference in case you aren't sure who your TA liaison is and you can run through the alphabetical list of states, determine your state, and determine who your contact person is. That's where you do find my contact information for all the plugs I have been giving you all today in he remembers it of e-mailing me. Mine it at the bottom there. As Miranda noted, you will find my e-mail address multiple times throughout the frequentedly asked questions, so that's another place you can certainly always find it. >>> Briefly before we wrap up and move on to the one-stop tool kit, what I would like to do is talk to you about some of the plans, future plans for this every evolving website, one of which is at some point we would like to add obviously more to the site index as we discussed, but we're also looking into adding a menu tab specifically within that main menu there on employment networks and ticket to work information. We know that a lot of projects are actively involved and pursuing becoming employment networks and utilizing the ticket to work program. We have a lot of materials around those things. Those currently are not posted to the site. We are working on created like I said the E N ticket to work information tab so that way we can most all of those materials and resources there as well as a direct link to lists Beth Jennings contact information who many of you know has been working in partnership with Steffie in order to walk people through the employment process. >>> The other thing we're working on is the archived section which we will get to, but the archived section is really going to contain a library so to speak of a lot of our old trainings. More specifically the video trainings and some of the audio trainings done in the early days of the DPN initiative. It is not that we don't find this information useful because we certainly do, but this information is more representative of the earlier vision of the DPN initiative and as we all know, this initiative is really evolved, and we have seen that through the creation of the maturity model, seen that through the introduction of the the integrated resource team concept, through really wanting to build on those agency committees, et cetera, et cetera, and so while we do feel that a lot of the older videos do have really good stuff to offer, we feel like they would best belong in the archive so people will go to the newer information referenced in the resources section and the training section now and then perhaps just for a history lesson be able to visit the archives. So at this point what I would like to do is go ahead and share with you all my desktop so that way I can share with you the one-stop tool kit. >> DJ, I am going to give you a few minutes break while you do that. >> Thanks, Laura. >> I am just going to -- if you don't mind, as we go to the one-stop tool kit library, I just want to give everybody a very brief history and again it will show you the difference. This website, the one-stop tool kit was created back even before the DPN initiatives program were implemented, back before where we had work incentive grants for those of you who remember those, and it really was created to be a grantee website, and it was created by the national office which is now known as the national DPN program office, so as she is transitioning from one to the other, you will remember the DPNavigator is the technical assistance and training website that has been developed and maintained by the national technical assistance provider, and now we're going to the website created by the Department of Labor with luck leaf a lot of input from the national technical assistance provider. Just wanted to give you a break in time to get a drink and now DJ, I will turn it back over to you. >> Thanks, Laura. So welcome to the one-stop tool kit. All of you should be very familiar with this site by now. For those of you that are Navigators and state leads as you all know, that there is a private side of this one-stop tool kit, and that is where the library which we're going to talk about today is housed, and in order to access that private side you need to go to the main one stop tool kit web page and select grantee resources from the right-hand menu. >>> Upon selecting grantedy resources, it will ask you to log in with a user name and password. You will notice here if you do not have a user name and password is asks to you contact che neat a who is located in the Department of Labors employment and training administration office or within the DPN national program office, so her e-mail is right there, and that's someone you can e-mail in order to obtain a user name and password. I willing logging in here. Let's hope I can remember my password and when you forget your password, she is also someone that you can contacted but you will also notice there is a forgot your password prompt that you can utilize. >>> Once you have logged in successfully you will notice a couple things. One, the resources for the grantees, that entire list will show up in the middle of your screen towards the left-hand side and that greater white area, and also you will notice if you look over at that right-hand menu bar that you have the same menu expanded menu under the fwrantdy resources -- grantedy resources. For right now we will go ahead and select library from the list of resources for grantees on the left-hand side of the page and this brings us to the one-stop tool kit library. You will notice this structure is somewhat similar 20 that of the within the DPNavigator website. The difference here being that there are this again the four main categories, but we don't have a favorite links site or favorite links area in this site. >>> Instead we have opted to go with pop DPN maturity resources, Navigator resources, state lead resources, and the archives. One of the things that we wanted to do here with the top DPM maturity model resources category was really to pick out some tools and some practices and some materials that really align with and promote the Department of Labor's and Social Security administration's vision of the disability program Navigator initiative. These resources really are a come pieltion of tools that have been submitted by grantees past and present, and the national TA team and the U.S. Department of Labor, national program office, that represent what we think of as the best of the best within the DPN project, so once you click on the top DPN maturity model resources, you will notice you will come to a substructure page which looks very similar to that of the resources substructure page within DPNavigator.net. The reason for this is we really wanted to provide continuity between sites. We wanted there to be familiarity, so if you think of something that is on one site and maybe you're on -- maybe you're thinking of a resource that's on DPNavigator.net, you're already in the one-stop tool kit library, hey, maybe it is in the same place. You will notice some crossover, but as Laura had point out earlier, one of the really nice things about the one-stop tool kit is we really see this as a place for collaborative work. This is what we call the collaborative grantee workspace, and you will notice when I click on disability expertise, that a list of things, items will come up and many of those items were created by persons within the DPN projects, so you will notice here like there is a cowment from Kevin Nickerson here, a resource guide for job seekers with disabilities. He is a DPN in the state of New York. You will notice there is a disability awareness and et at the time training by a DPN in Florida, Lisa BRCA has put something in here. There are also, though, as we talked about still resources like those frequently asked questions that were developed by the TA and training provider. >>> One of the things I want to point out that you all probably notice, and I am scrolling back to the top of the page, and I am going to give a second for people's browsers to catch up here, but one of the things that you probably noticed is that this very first item found under disability expertise is something that points you back to the previous TA and training providers website. As Miranda mentioned this has been a work in progress, and we had to start somewhere. As we continue to develop our resources and store these other things within places on the D P Navigator website, we will be updating these, the one-stop tool kit as well. >>> If we back out of here, and then we come back to again accessibility problem solving sphere of influence would be the other substructure categories within this, and so we'll kind of even back out top DPN maturity model resources and take a quick look at the Navigator resources, again it has the same substructure, and one of the things I want to do is let's just check out the problem solving category. One of the things that I want to do is talk about the search function within the library. One of the really great, great things about the search function is that it allows you to search specifically within a category, so, for example, if we came into problem solving and we were looking -- we knew there was some frequently asked question about something in here, that was developed that, you know, as you can see everyone there are multiple resources, 70 records were found under this, so like I said, if you were searching specifically for like a frequently asked question that you knew there was something about one of the FAQs you wanted to located, uktd simply type in FAQ to see if it was posted within this category, and you will notice that there is one document that comes up, and that's the frequently asked questions compile document posted by the national disability institute. Again, the search feature is really nice. You can search by keyword. The key to using the search function within the library is that you have to be within a specific category, so within that specific category you have to be within a specific subcategory. So you need to be within disability expertise or within the accessibility category or within the problem solving category or within the sphere of influence category, and that's much the same for all of the search functions within this resource or within this library. >>> If we come back to the all resources page, and this is your shortcut, whenever you get lost because I know sometimes it is easy tore that to happen, especially with, you know, the four main categories and the four subcategories per each main category, if you ever need to get back to just the main resources page in the library you can just select all resources and it brings you right back to this page. >>> So there is also state lead resources and this looks also very similar to the others in that it has those four main sub categories included under the top DPN maturity model resources as well as under the Navigator resources, but there are a few other things in this area that are specific to the state leads, specifically the DPN state overviews, Navigator contact charts and even more importantly memorandums from the national office. >>> The reason we've included this or the reason we were able to include this here and that it is not included on the DPNavigator website is because this section again is private which means it is password protected and the memorandum from the national office are something that are communicationses between the national program office and department of -- and the grantedies, so that's something that shouldn't be in the public area, so that's why we're able to list it here. Again, there is also state lead orientation and training materials that very much mirrors what was created on the DPNavigator website with the intent of providing state leads that guidance. >>> If we come back to all resources, I am just going to talk about the archives, but you can go into the ar ciefs. We're not going to go there in the interest of saving some time, but the archives are great place to go to find some of the older information, but one of the things that I really wanted to promote and looking at this collaborative grantee workspace, use what's in here. As I said, there are multiple examples of different things ranging from news letters, monthly news letters to desktop resource guides to all sorts of other presentations on disability etiquette, awareness, assistive technology, accessibility. The whole idea behind this collaborative workspace is to be able to rip off and duplicate or R&D as Miranda referenced earlier. We really want you all to be able to take advantage of the resources and materials that Navigators who have come before you and those that will come after you are creating, so we really want you to use this as a place to start, start researching within these things before you start a presentation to find out if there is a presentation that you can basically R&D, why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to. That's something we really talk about in terms of using this library. >> MRI rand on, I wanted to asked -- MRI randa, I wanted to ask you along the same linings you talked about how this is growing and a collaborative effort and certainly there is a great deal of information on it currently that can be used to R&D, but a lot of information on it has been modified and updated and maybe tailor to do different areas and improved upon, so how would someone go ahead and share that new information, especially those new Navigator who is might be on this call or those who have been around for a little while but haven't contributed to this? How can they share what the great work that they're doing in their area and have other Navigator as cross the country access that resource or document, material, what have you? >> Thanks, Miranda. I was about to get to that. For those people interested in sharing their resources that they're creating which we strongly encourage all of you to do, in order to up load a resource to the library, again, you just come into the library page and the mainly brother page which you will notice right here, and right you underneath the all resources button you have the option to up load a resource, and if you click on up load a resource, it will bring you to the resource submission form at which point you will be asked to complete your name, your e-mail address, the title of the resource, and a description of the resource, and in describing the resource we ask you to just give a brief description, something to give people an idea of what the resource is about, and also you need to make sure you need to up load the resource in an accessible format which all that means is a text-based format or.TXT or DOC for documents like Microsoft Word, it is automatically going to be saved as DOC. The reason that we ask you to do that is because there are some other programs that are graphic based and formats make it difficult for people who are using screen readers, so that's the reason that we ask you to up load it in that sense, so you will be asked to ep up owed the file, and there is two ways to up load a file. Actually, one-way to up load a file or if you have a particular website address you would like to share with us, you can do it that way as well. >>> In order to up load a file, it says enter either a file name, well, who knows the actual name of a file and can type it out with every single little underscore, et cetera, so in order to make this easy on yourself, if you chooses browse, it will bring up your own my documents folder at which point you can go through your my documents folder, and you will notice I have several here. You could select something and select a document, hit open once you have selected it, and you will notice it is in there now. So it shows the file path name or the file name, and then you would choose at least one of the categories below for where you would want this to be listed. Many of you are familiar or should be familiar with at this point the disability expertise accessibility problem solving and sphere of influence categories within the maturity model, but if you're not, that's okay, and if you're not sure, even if you are familiar with those and you're just not sure where where you wanted to put it, you can select one, we'll be taking a look at it. We get an e-mail notification that someone has posted something and so we come back and look at the resource anyways, and we can help determine where that's going to go. Once you have selected all the areas you would like it to be posted to, we'll choose submit, and then like I I said, an e-mail is generated to the administrators of the one-stop tool kit letting them know that there is a new posting and they'll get that post to do the web. >>> Just as a side note for any of that you may have posted things in the last couple of months, we're working on that list right now, and so just bear with us. They will make it within the library very soon. Miranda or Laura, anything else you wanted to add about the one-stop tool kit library before I turn it back over? >> This is Miranda. When you put the description, can't be emphasized enough make sure you're using using key words. When people are searching for a document that has to do with with assistive technology or deaf and hard of hearing job seekers or what have you, if they're entering that type of comment, you will be able to find your document. Really when you're writing the descriptions, it is important to think about using the key words. Just wanted to emphasize that again. >> This is Laura. I am going to say what I always say, and I would especially this website that the DPNavigator website you don't always know what you don't know, and so what do I mean by that? When you click on any of the library categories, top DPN maturity model, Nav gaitered resources, or any of them, what you should do, there is a search engine on there, so you can find things, but I would also encourage you to scroll through all of the documents and materials that are in a category. It might take you some time, but you might come across materials that you didn't know existed, trainings that other Navigators have created, brochures they have created, you will certainly come across many DPN created either logo or state newspapers or news letters. A lot of great resources that have been put up there through the years, so do take the time to scroll through at least once some of those categories to familiarize yourself. We claimed the term actually took it from the Maryland Navigator project, rip off and duplicate and you heard Miranda and DJ talk about that. We really do mean that. One of the great things of having Navigators post their material sincerely that you can maybe use them. You can edit them for yourself or get an idea of what's been used in another area, so it really helps you not to reinvent the wheel, but sometimes you don't know what's up there until you scroll through them. That's what I wanted to say, DJ. >> Thanks, Laura. At this point I will hand it back on to you or Miranda so we can open up the lines for questions. >> I will take the questions, and I will show you the way that you can raise your hand. You know what, as many times as we use this system, I still get excited about raising the hand. You should see an arrow pointing to a button that says raise hand. If you click on the button which I am gk to and it is going to raise my hand, it is going to raise your hand in a right-hand column, and it is going to let me know you have a question. We also have -- let me take another pointer. We also have a question and answer panel. Let's see if I can move this. We have a question and answer panel, and that's going to allow you -- you can also submit a question that way if you would like to. We'll be looking at the question and answer panel to make sure that we get your questions. I will try to click on this in the right way. Let's see if we have any questions. We do have a question. You're going to have to bear with me. I am one of the people -- notice I didn't say at the beginning that I was the technological guru because I am not. Now I am closing all of my panels. Miranda or DJ, I did see a question in the Q&A panel and somehow I closed mine. I can't get to it. >> I think it was Cindy asking about seeing the agenda. We had gone to that between sharing our desktop. >> Okay. >> Figured that out. >> Okay. Great. >> I just wanted to point out as well to anyone and Laura you might want to make sure you have your media viewer open, too, since now you have the ball. I don't know if you are using closed captioning so those of you can still see that. >> Yes. I do have the viewer open. >> (multiple speakers). >> Okay. Okay. Now when you unmute your phone what you will want to do is say your name and who you're with. Jim Dorise, your phone should be unmuted. What is your question or comment? >> Actually it is still muted. >> Okay. >> I am going to go ahead and take the ball back so that I can unmute him. >> (multiple speakers). >> Jim, I am sorry, I just unmuted your line. You weren't unmuted before. You can start over again, that would be great. Sorry about that. >> Okay.That's all right, ladies. There is a conspiracy. What I am saying is I am really impressed as one of my Nav gaitered who is happened to see the 13 November showing told me I had to see this because there was so much -- a lot of stuff in the tool kit, don't get me wrong, and I was always impressed with that and being able to draw from that and use it and the fact that we can plagerrism only is effective in CLEC, we can take stuff and use it, but the new system is so easy to access. I think it is easier than the tool kit was which was dog gone easy, about ut this has so much and is so easy to get to I must comment all of you working on this this is really going to be a tool for the Navigators, and I will make sure all my gaff Navigators have access and use it because these are things to include all the nice little things that we can steel or take, and utilize ourselves. This will be helpful and thank you very much. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. You know, I am going to give -- we do work as a team, but as I said at the beginning, we take leads and DJ Diamond, this was her vision, and she kept saying again all of you who know me I am extremely detail oriented, I want to give you all the information as it exists, and DJ wonderful things coming, being a Navigator and state lead, wanted to do make sure when the grnties access the website ( indiscernible ) that it was going to be user friendly, easy, and see I told you at the beginning of the one of the best practices at the national TA level was bringing people from the Navigator initiative. So thank you for that, Jim. I am really impressed with both, and I think one we have more control over, but the great thing for grantees is you have two websites at your disposal to use. They both include really great information, and they include information not only from the national level but information from your peers, and things that you can access, and it is really exciting to be able to offer this tool for you and to get the good feedback that we did. I am going to -- Miranda, do you see a Q&A panel? >> I see it, lor A this is DJ. Looks like we have a question from Lisa. I will not try to pronounce your last name. Is it possible the DPN website would have the capability of a posting board or chat room? This may be an ideal place for DPNs around the nation to post a question or share a tip. Lisa, in response to your answer, that actually is a good question. It is something that we tossed around initially as an idea. We kind of stopped and riewldz it out -- ruled it out because we had something similar in the one-stop tool kit at one point that didn't end up getting used because a lot of the exchange wasn't really happening because people were retted sent to put things -- reticent to put things in writing, but perhaps we could figure out at some point how to at least add a blog area. We talked about that as well, so we certainly are not completely opposed to those ideas. We're just kind of working around them. >> Great. Thank you. I figured out my Q&A panel. See, this is a learning experience. Lisa, I know how to pronounce her name. Great question, too, Lisa, and another thing you have to keep in mind is the DPNavigator website is public where as the grantee collaborative workspace is a private site, so we do have to keep that in mind, too, because we want to make sure that we appreciate -- take into consideration everybody's confidentiality and that type of a blog or a discussion board, but as DJ said, at that that said, that was one of the original functions included on the one stop tool kit grantee collaborative workspace, and while some people used it, not enough people used it to keep it going, but I will say that when they did use it, great questions, and great responses from Navigators nationwide, so great idea. So as DJ said, we certainly will look into it. >> One strategy in the meantime since we don't have that type of blog up and we do have the confidentiality issues, especially with DPNavigator site being public and anyone can get on that, so certainly if you wanted to talk about challenges you might be having with a partner agency you wouldn't want that information to be going out there because we wouldn't want to do that, but in the meantime, if you're having questions, I just wanted to put in a plug here to remind you all that as your TA liaisons, we are more than happy to connect you with another project, other Nav gaitereds across the country working on similar issues and help to you make that connection. It is really exciting for me as a TA Liaison talking to a Navigator in one area working on an issue and struggling with things and coming up with great ideas and wanted other people to bounce ideas off of, I am happy to do that myself, but I also like to connect them with other Navigators across the country. You can see a lot of great collaboration like what we saw with Kevin in New York and Tony in California coming up with those 30-second trainings, so please do continue to use us in that capacity. That's a little off track from the website, but just thought I would put that plug in there while we're waiting for other folks to have questions. >> Good plug. If you want to make a comment like Jim did, please do so. If you have a question, you can either again raise your hand or you can put enter your question in the Q&A panel. We really want to say we've been excited about those of you who have taken the time to participate in these webinars. It is a little different. What we did when we were under the law health policy and disability center ( indiscernible ) both audio and the web portion really does make it more interactive and allows the presenters to show you specific what they're talking about, walking you through it. We realize that as was said at the beginning there are different servers and sometimes as the presenters take you through sections, it might not completely be in sync with for instance the audio, might not be in sync with the web part, but when you do receive the archived link and everybody will receive it, the day after, you can view it again and both the web and the audio portion will be in sync. We do find this to be a great way to bring training such as websites of interest just like the upcoming ADA series and then in the past the 30-second trainings. Miranda, again, from being a Navigator and having worked at the state level has a better understanding of what Navigators need to know in the kind of resources they need to know. And so includes this, so just wanted to really glad that all of you are being able to participate in these and giving the good feedback. While it doesn't seem like we have any other questions and comments at this time before I turn it back to DJ and Miranda to ask them if they have any time comments, when you do exit out of today's webinar, you're going to have a very brief evaluation of today's webinar. Please do take a few minutes to fill that out and to give us your feedback. This is one-way to allow us as we move into the future to make sure that the training and technical assistance activities that we're putting together for you is really beneficial and so your feedback will help us as we move to the future. I see Ellie Manuel from Minnesota has said she will be training a new DPN in the near future. Have you received comments from states about the best DPN training materials? Wow. Well, I am going to start with that, and I can turn it to Miranda and DJ. I will say that probably again through our evolution and through bringing on representatives from the DPN program to serve at the training and technical assistance level, one of the best tools and resources that we have for new Navigators I would say is the DPN checklist. It really tries to take all of the knowledge, all of the resources, and all of the materials and pull it in in a oriented checklist to help new Navigators ake climate. I would also say as Miranda went over the frequentedly asked questions is great. That page includes the original 15 frequently asked questions that we learn from Navigators during the first two years when the program was being implemented, so those are the two things that I would suggest, but Miranda and D, I will turn it over to you. >> This is MRI rand A hi, Ellie. Thanks for the question. It is a good question. When we were looking at the DPNavigator website and the training page, if you looked on that we had the DPN orientation and training. It was a three-part webinar series we had and the three parts, the first part was an overview of the DPN implementation maturity model which really gave people a concept of what it meant to move through the phases of ma tiewrtd and the vision for what we're trying to do in terms of increasing disability expertise across one-stop center and partner staff, focusing on accessibility and addressing issues related to physical programatic and attitudinal accessibility within the one-stops, so job seekers can access it at all levels, the one-stop system, and also problem solving and sphere of influence and addressing those areas, so the first training webinar was on that. It gives a great overview kind of the birds eye vision, the big picture, so I would take time to have your new gaff gart go through that training. Additionally as Laura mentioned the DPN checklist is the second part of that training, and DJ and I walk Navigators through the five of that DPN checklist and really builds a great base. It is a starting off platform, and it is very specific. It is not that macro level from the implementation model, but it is the micro level of the nitty-gritty details, things you need to take care of as your starting off as a Navigator, things to get up to speed to understand your role and tell other people in the one-stop system about that, working with your partners, starting to address the basic issues that might exist, and of course there is a third part where really we talk about interagency committees as well as how to serve as a resource librarian as a Navigator, so the interagency committee is working at the systems level with a lot of other partners and being a resource librarian, it is something a new Navigator themselves can really start doing from day one, and so really that three-part orientation and training would cover a lot of what Laura was talking about, those resources, and look again, I will hand it over to DJ to talk about those state lead resources. That's where all of those materials are. DJ, do you have anything you want to add that might be available on that state lead resource site? >> You know, not really, Ellie, the only other thing I can think of is if you wanted to take a quick look at the orientation template for state leads which is created specifically to talk to new Nav gaitereds, so even though you won't do a whole training for a bunch of new Navigators and really only doing it for one Navigator, it does lineup the key components of what you want to do as a state lead and make sure your Navigators are covering. Other than that, I think Laura and Miranda pretty much cover touchdown. >> Funny that you said that, DJ. Since I wroatd that up you think I would have thought of that. Thanks. >> The orientation template is usually something if you have a number of people, but it has good resources on it, and actually a lot of those resources are found on the training website as well. You can maybe do cross referencing, and again get connected with your TA liaison. We would be happy to work with you on that. That's a great question. Do we have any other questions coming in, Laura? I think I see one from Maria in the chat box actually. I think this is a question for DJ. DJ, Maria is asking is someone with a vision disability she noticed the blue yellow lines but didn't see it on the DPNavigator.net, and I know you're working on making this visually accessible, so I wanted to let you know these two colors are difficult for some people to distinguish using the zoom text helps but flips the colors. This is good feedback. DJ, do you want to respond to that at all? >> ThereThere isn't really anything for me to respond to other than to say thanks for the comment and we'll take that into consideration as we're continue working with the site. Perhaps if Maria if you could send me an e-mail or give me a call and we can talk about that a little bit more in he detail, that would help me talk to the web designers in terms of what we're doing. >> We appreciate that feedback. The thing is so much thought and effort went into even if you look at how streamlined the site is and DJ and the designers in creating that site, it doesn't have a lot of extras and moving parts because it is -- it was designed to be so accessible, and I know a lot of thought and effort went into making that site really accessible, and it can be challenging sometimes to make it completedly accessible for everyone, but we wanted to try our best. >> Okay. With that it is almost time to for the end of the hour, so again want to thank DJ and Miranda for walks us through the two sites. Remember, everyone, keep checking the what's new page. You can learn about up and coming trainings, hope that you continue to access them, and you will learn about things that we want to make sure that you know. You might get it through the one-stop tool kit listserv, but here is another place where you can check on it, and just like in have the have the where one of the Navigators saw this training and encouraged another one to participate, we hope that you're doing the same with your Navigators, finding it beneficial, and again thank you for your questions and suggestions and your strategies. Often this is how we know how you're receiving it or things that we need to change, so we appreciate however you share that information to please do contact us because that helps us do what we're doing. Again, before you sign off, please do take the time to fill out the evaluation page, and with that thank you, everyone, enjoy the rest of your afternoon, and Thanksgiving is coming up, we wish you all a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Miranda and DJ. >> Thanks, Laura, thanks, Miranda, and thank you, everybody. >> Thank you, everyone. Have a lovely day. [ event concluded ]]