16:00:20 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	Hanging out in my garden! :)
16:02:27 From Eric Endlich to Everyone:
	Eric Endlich, Top College Consultants
16:02:56 From Jane Thierfeld Brown to Everyone:
	Jane Thierfeld Brown, College Autism Spectrum
16:02:59 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	Matt Segall, Emory University, Emory Oaks
16:03:09 From Fran viscovich to Everyone:
	Fran Viscovich ASPIRES Nassau Community College
16:03:20 From Emily Raclaw she/her to Everyone:
	Emily Raclaw, Marquette University  Milwaukee, WI
16:03:23 From Rebecca Clark to Everyone:
	Rebecca Clark
16:03:34 From Harley Crisp to Everyone:
	Harley Crisp The Ohio State University, Nisonger Center Ace Program
16:03:35 From Kelsey Bohlke to Everyone:
	Kelsey Bohlke, Emory Oaks, Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
16:03:38 From Rebecca Clark to Everyone:
	Rebecca Clark--City Colleges of Chicago
16:03:56 From Jastyn Wallace to Everyone:
	Jastyn Wallace, Ohio State Ace! Program
16:04:26 From Shalyse McKnight to Everyone:
	Shalyse McKnight, University of Utah
16:05:55 From Dominique Dial to Everyone:
	Dominique Dial - Triton College (outside Chicago)
16:06:01 From Karina Klenchik to Everyone:
	Karina Klenchik, Link OT
16:06:04 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	Adero Allison - Arizona State University adero.allison@asu.edu GATE Program for Neurodivergent students
16:06:07 From Erin McQuaid to Everyone:
	I may have to go on and off camera because of WIFI.
16:06:11 From Kim Patton (she/her) to Everyone:
	Kim Patton, University of Illinois, Illinois Neurodiversity Initiative
16:06:37 From Mary Judy, Alpine Square to Everyone:
	Mary Judy, Alpine Square LLC, Benefits Counseling Supports www.alpinesquare.net, mary@alpinesquare.net
16:06:42 From Carol B. from Oakton College, Des Plaines, IL to Everyone:
	Carol Bustamante, Professor of English, Representative of Neurodiversity Working Grup at Oakton College. We are submitting a budget request for an official neurodiversity person for our College.
16:07:00 From Emmanuel Mejeun to Everyone:
	Emmanuel Mejeun - Austin Peay State University - TN - Director of Full Spectrum Learning program.
16:08:19 From Jastyn Wallace to Lee Williams(Direct Message):
	Are you able to record this?
16:08:53 From Lee Williams to Jastyn Wallace(Direct Message):
	Yes, thanks!
16:19:55 From Jastyn Wallace to Everyone:
	Ballpark - 80% reactive
16:19:58 From Amy Radochonski to Everyone:
	2/3 preventative for my agency
16:19:59 From Emily Raclaw she/her to Everyone:
	100 preventative
16:19:59 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	My program is new but most are signing up preventatively.
16:20:13 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	preventatively but reactively is rising
16:20:22 From Dominique Dial to Everyone:
	50/50 for our accommodation services
16:20:27 From Kim Patton (she/her) to Everyone:
	Ours is mostly preventative
16:20:28 From Fran viscovich to Everyone:
	Mostly preventive
16:21:42 From Emily Raclaw she/her to Everyone:
	For mine yes it is.
16:22:11 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	Career Readiness is a solid piece for our program but we are really new at this.
16:22:35 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	No benefits counseling here
16:23:01 From Dominique Dial to Everyone:
	For our benefits planning we connect/refer to VR
16:23:07 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	We don't have much in the way of benefits counseling, but we have good resources to connect students and families to, as needed or requested
16:23:13 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	Reacted to "For our benefits pla..." with 👍
16:24:01 From Emily Raclaw she/her to Everyone:
	It's part of our onboarding/interview. Former VR counselor here 🙂
16:24:08 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	We have a VR counselor assigned to our DRC office and can refer as needed.
16:24:25 From Dominique Dial to Everyone:
	I am also former VR counselor so I refer many of my students.
16:24:28 From Kim Patton (she/her) to Everyone:
	We haven't had success with connecting with VR at this point
16:24:44 From Mary Judy, Alpine Square to Everyone:
	Reacted to "I am also former VR ..." with 👏🏻
16:24:51 From Mary Judy, Alpine Square to Everyone:
	Reacted to "We have a VR counsel..." with 👏🏻
16:25:01 From Mary Judy, Alpine Square to Everyone:
	Reacted to "It's part of our onb..." with 👏🏻
16:25:10 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	Our VRC covers our program but we are looking to expand as it can be limiting
16:26:23 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	Yes-Liz, we are trying to bridge the gap after the student has graduated to supported employment, job placement, and job coaching. Most of our students don't qualify for supported employment, though.
16:29:31 From Eric Endlich to Everyone:
	I interface with families not only in terms of those we serve directly, but also via a Facebook group of 17,000 parents I co-lead. I routinely recommend to parents that they explore VR and other benefits, and I am often struck by how many parents don't know about these agencies/benefits, don't know that they could be beneficial for funding relevant services/programs, or don't think their children will qualify for benefits.
16:29:48 From Jane Thierfeld Brown to Everyone:
	Justin, that is what I am going to talk about later in this hour.
16:31:10 From Eric Endlich to Everyone:
	In CA, the system known as Regional Centers (completely separate from VR) has been known to pay for some types of support programs.
16:31:24 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	In Georgia (and this is probably true in most other states), our VR has a service called "Supported Education", which approximates our program services. So we connect our students to VR to have Supported Education authorized as an service in their workplan, and then GVRA pays a per-student, per-semester program fee (Supported Education) to our program. We've just gotten started with this, but it seems to be a promising funding avenue for us.
16:31:25 From Jane Thierfeld Brown to Everyone:
	I apologize, that was Justin, (autocorrect!)
16:31:58 From Eric Endlich to Everyone:
	Reacted to "In Georgia (and this..." with 👍
16:34:22 From Jastyn Wallace to Everyone:
	Reacted to "In Georgia (and this..." with 👍
16:34:31 From Adero Allison to Everyone:
	Arizona has Supported Education as long as it is meant to prepare a person for employment.
16:35:50 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	Even Georgia is an Employment First state! Imagine that!
16:40:35 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	That funding is for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education programs, not college autism programs. At least in Georgia
16:42:13 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	Yet! :-)
16:52:05 From Kim Patton (she/her) to Everyone:
	This is so helpful. Thank you for this info!!
16:55:35 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	NTACT:C | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (transitionta.org)
16:55:44 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	Thank you, Matt, for sending this!
16:55:47 From Jastyn Wallace to Everyone:
	THANK YOU!!!
16:58:29 From Elizabeth Green to Everyone:
	Thank you all! Just adding email: liz@linktalent and mary@alpinesquare.net.Would love to collaborate!
16:59:47 From Jastyn Wallace to Everyone:
	I have to get going.  Thank you so much Jane, this was perfect!!
16:59:52 From Matt Segall (he/him) - Emory Oaks to Everyone:
	Thanks everyone! Great information! Lee, thank you for organizing!
17:00:14 From Harley Crisp to Everyone:
	Thank you all!
17:01:00 From Kellie Nix-University of North Texas (she/her) to Everyone:
	thank you so much!!
17:01:30 From Lee Williams to Everyone:
	Community colleges: yet another layer of complexity.
17:06:40 From Kim Patton (she/her) to Everyone:
	Thank you! This was very informative!
17:06:49 From Erin McQuaid to Everyone:
	Thanks so much! This was great!
17:06:50 From Fran viscovich to Everyone:
	Thank you
17:06:51 From Karina Klenchik to Everyone:
	Thank you!
17:08:17 From Jane Thierfeld Brown to Everyone:
	JaneBrown.cas@gmail.com