Meet+Your+Neighbor+-+JanLyssa+Serenity

8:40-8:50 Meet Your Neighbor (JanLyssa Serenity) [8:47] Glitteractica Cookie: JanLyssa Serenity, please take a seat on stage! [8:47] Ricken Flow: /nods at Glitter [8:47] Gentle Heron gave you National Health Care Day of Service note. [8:48] Penguin Kuhn: nodes too [8:48] Glitteractica Cookie: (THANKS ricken) [8:48] Laysi Itano gave you YOUR PERSONAL INVITE- LIMITED ADMITTANCE. [8:48] any1 Gynoid: *passes tissue box* [8:48] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks for inviting JAN to speak with you today. Let me start by saying that thanks to JAN’s funding agency, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, JAN is celebrating its 25 year anniversary. [8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: hopefully everybody can hear me - if you have trouble, I have a transcript I can hand out afterward [8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: Even though years of experience give the staff more accommodation examples to share, one of the main aspects of being the JAN Avatar is that we are charged with keeping JAN up-to- date. Lucky for us we now have a [8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: great deal of options when it comes to using technology to increase the accessibility of the workplace. And, the ever-changing fact of accommodations pushes us to find unique ways to enhance workplace productivity. [8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: Hopefully you will come away wanting to know more about JAN. [8:49] JANLyssa Serenity: So, how can you use JAN? Well, our primary mission is to focus on solving job accommodation issues. This almost always includes providing timely information on the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as assistive technologies. [8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also provides information on entrepreneurship, which takes the issues of job accommodations and forces us to think outside of the box. [8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: What do we bring to you at no cost? Well, 25 years of service, professional experience in all types of industries and jobs, a national perspective from traveling and talking to different parts of the United States, [8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: ease of use via the Web and telephone, and confidential conversations. You can be honest and up front with JAN Consultants. There isn’t one situation we haven’t heard or dealt with from an unbiased perspective. [8:50] Youri Ashton: pets the doggy [8:50] JANLyssa Serenity: Who is our audience? Primarily our audience base is employers, individuals with disabilities, conditions, or impairments, and their family members, service providers, and other such as attorneys, physicians, and reporters. [8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN received 38,000 contacts last year with 6,000 of those being electronic contacts (emails and JoDs). JAN also receives 3.5 to 5 million Webpage requests per year. [8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: How do we work? Well, when your call or email JAN, your question will be forwarded to the specialist on duty. We are split among four teams. Our largest team and busiest team is the motor/mobility team. [8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: The questions range from anything inside to outside of the body. Many of these calls include traditional disabilities such as multiple sclerosis, quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, [8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: and non-traditional impairments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, back conditions, and other industrial-type injuries. We also deal with body odor, intestinal disorders, and reproductive conditions. [8:51] Glitteractica Cookie: not supposed to pet working service dogs you know. ;) [8:51] JANLyssa Serenity: The cognitive/psychiatric team provides information on accommodations for individuals with learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, depression, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological conditions. [8:51] Jenaia Morane: yeah Max is working ;-) [8:51] Louise Later: :)) [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: The sensory team deals with conditions that involve respiratory, vision, and hearing impairments. Conditions such as diabetes and HIV fall under the sensory team. [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also has an entrepreneurship team, which provides information on how individuals with disabilities can start their own businesses. [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: Let me give you just a couple of recent examples related to increasing accessibility for an individual with a disability. [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: When JAN talks about accessibility and technology, we take a broad view of what it means to increase accessibility. [8:52] Youri Ashton: max is a good dog, so not bad to give it a bit of reconnision :p [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: For example, JAN had a case involving a surgeon who had difficulty standing on hard floors for long periods. JAN provided information on anti-fatigue matting for an operating room environment and the individual was accommodated. [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also recently had a case involving a junior high teacher with multiple sclerosis who was preparing to return to work after a year of medical leave. [8:52] JANLyssa Serenity: She had difficulty standing due to lower extremity weakness so could not write on the chalkboard as much as needed. JAN provided information on LCD tablets, and the individual was accommodated. [8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN recently consulted on a case involving a service member returning to work who had difficulty concentrating when his back was to the opening in his cubicle. JAN provided information on a monitor mirror, and the individual was accommodated. [8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: JAN also provides information technical issues related to accessible Web design, so it's an interesting place to be a virtual consultant. [8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: So, what can you expect when you start with JAN? Well, it depends on what meets your needs. We run the gamut of workplace issues, focusing on accommodation and ADA consultation, over 200 technical assistance documents, [8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: several online tools to assist with process and guidance questions, benefit / cost research, and the ability to help push information back to our funding agency to make changes in policy development. [8:53] JANLyssa Serenity: Thank you for this opportunity, and contact JAN at [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: (800) 526-7234 (V) [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: (877) 781-9403 (TTY) [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: [] [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: ...@jan.wvu.edu|j...@jan.wvu.edu]] [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: Please call, e-mail, or visit us on the Web and on our Social Networks! Or of course, contact us in Second Life by sending a message to JAN Xomotron or JANLyssa Serenity. [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: [] [8:54] JANLyssa Serenity: Our office is currently just about ready to be up and running, just needs a few tweaks, but you're all welcome to visit! [8:55] Ricken Flow claps [8:55] Robin Roar:  [8:55] millay Freschi: Applause!! [8:55] LizaJune Stoop: Nice presentation. [8:55] Maura Hoxley: Claps! [8:55] Smash Lane: Awesome JAN [8:55] Gentle Heron: Very valuable resource. Thanks Lyssa. [8:55] Muse Carmona claps [8:55] millay Freschi: important work [8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks for having us here, and let us know if you have any questions [8:56] Maura Hoxley: I have some thing to add...... If I may real quick. [8:56] cowgrl Crystal: Very Helpful information!!! [8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Will the JAN Second Life location be linked to your website? [8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Yes, it will be linked on our site [8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Go ahead, Maura [8:56] Dusty Artaud: ty Lyssa, very good presentation. [8:56] Veri Oddfellow: Sorry all .. Brad Lewis/Veri Oddfellow here from Great STrides .. *smiles* [8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Fabulous. [8:56] Maura Hoxley: Thanks to meeting JANLyssa Serenity, through SL and specifically NPC... The Narcolepsy Network will be asking representatives from her Network to join us as speakers at our RL Conference in Jacksonville Florida this coming October. I just want to point out that though she is less than 3 months old in SL, Her presence here has already had a RL impact. I think she is doing a wonderful job! [8:56] JennyLin Arashi: Thank you! [8:56] Impeccably Peccable: Seth Gonzales, Boomer Esiason Foundation, NYC, [], @cysticfibrosis [8:56] Impeccably Peccable: Sorry I'm late [8:56] JANLyssa Serenity: Thanks Maura :) [8:57] Gentle Heron: Good networking, Lyssa and Maura!!! [8:57] Ricken Flow: /waves at Impeccably [8:57] Serene Jewell: Great work Jan! [8:57] Maura Hoxley: no thank YOU! [8:57] CJ27 Jigsaw: Applause!! [8:57] Louise Later: JAN will be speaking at Helenn Keller day too [8:57] Shinedown Palianta: important target nice work [8:58] Glitteractica Cookie: Thanks again to our great presenters from JAN