E-Newsletter - February 2016

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A Year of Firsts

Welcome to the first Erskine Green Training Institute e-newsletter. This has been an exciting time for us. After more than three years of planning and preparation, we’ve opened the nation’s first teaching and training hotel for people with disabilities providing both job opportunities and postsecondary vocational training. And our first trial by fire was a New Year’s Eve wedding with the hotel providing guest accommodations and our partners at the Horizon Convention Center providing the reception space and catering. What a way to bring in the New Year! Read more

Staff Spotlight

Meet Megan Stevenson, the Institute’s Director. Megan received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ball State University. Her bachelor’s degree is in special education with a major in intense interventions and a minor in mild interventions; her master’s degree is in applied behavior analysis. She began her career as a high school special education teacher and transition coordinator where she trained, placed and oversaw students working in the community. Read more

Now Enrolling

The Institute is accepting applications for the next sessions for 2016. Look for the 2017 curriculum to be introduced later this year. Read more

Student Support

In addition to a full-time instructional staff of four, the Institute employs several part-time staff to provide evening, weekend and overnight supervision as well as a part-time nurse to handle the management of medications for those students who need support. Read more