The Peer Navigator Employment Training Program (PNETP) for young people with disabilities is funded by the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF). Peer Navigators are people who provide advice to others with a similar background to them. Health Care Transition services can include help finding an adult doctor and learning to speak with doctors. This program provides individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) an internship as Peer Navigators to help other young adults with IDD with their healthcare, job, and school transitions.
Goals of the Program: The goal of this program is for Peer Navigator interns to learn the skills they need to have jobs in social services or healthcare. Part of the intern training is helping others with health, work, school, and independent living goals.
Training Program: The PNETP Training Program includes lessons in:
Anticipated Outcomes: In 2 years, we hope to train 16 interns, each serving 10 people with IDD with transition (160 people total) and work with 8 employment organizations. We hope that all 16 Peer Navigator interns will be able to find employment.
Who to contact:
Principal Investigator: Cecily Betz, PhD, RN: cbetz@chla.usc.edu
Project co-lead: Christine Mirzaian, MD, MPH: cmirzaian@chla.usc.edu
Project Coordinator: Rowan Smith, MPH rsmith@chla.usc.edu
Peer Navigator Employment Training Program: A Health Care Transition Service-Training Model
Peer Navigation Participant Flyer
*The presentation focused on the Peer Navigator program is from 5:51-51:22
Made possible with funding from Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation