Supported Employment: Developing Natural Supports

Course Introduction

This course is offered by the Center on Community Living and Careers at Indiana University. The course introduces new employment specialists, consultants, job developers, job coaches, and others involved in training, hiring, inclusion, and job placement, to the utilization of natural supports, job analysis, and the seven phase sequence. This Supported Employment: Developing Natural Supports course helps learners to focus on developing natural supports in the workplace and utilizing the job analysis and seven phase sequence to help support the individual job seeker in a more inclusive process. Individuals who participate in all training components and successfully complete all online assignments receive a competency-based certificate from Indiana University.

Learning Outcomes

After completion of modules you will:

• Define natural supports and the seven-phase sequence.
• Recognize how natural supports typically occur for everyone in a variety of jobs and a variety of ways.
• Identify the benefits of natural supports for the supported employee, employer, and employment services agencies.
• Communicate agency/employer expectations and roles to prospective employers.
• Utilize Job Analysis and the Seven Phase Sequence to establish natural supports, pre-plan supports, and strategize the augmentation of natural supports.
• Identify strategies for problem-solving using natural supports.