Paul Blatchford ed.m

Vocational Consulting and Evaluation

SELECTED TRAINING EXPERIENCES and Certification

July 2007: Updated training on PAS-1 statistical data in reference to Functional Capacity Evaluations and Lifting Assessments

 

1984 – To Date:up to 28 Annual Continuing Education Credits from ABVE per year

 

Nov 2004, Dec 1997, Nov 1998: Updated training on PAS-1 statistical data.

 

Mar 1995, Mar 1994, Mar 1992, Sept 1992, Dec 1992, Mar 1991, June 1991: Training on the new federal law, The Americans With Disabilities Act; implementation and the effect on employers’ hiring policies and procedures.

 

May 1995, Jan 1995, Oct 1993, Feb 1992, Nov 1990: Training on the Department of Labor Statistics cross-referencing with Portable; Assessment System on functional capacity & exertional demand levels of work

 

May 1977: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Division of Employment Security; Certified on the General Aptitude Test Battery (G.A.T.B)

 

Dec 1987:Training in providing functional capacity evaluations for the Portable Assessment System I, Aptitudinal Screen and Isotonic Lifting Assessment to determine the parameters of vocational ability/disability by means of objective and quantitative  measures. This apparatus is used to stimulate work environments and provide a testbed for vocational capacities assessment.

 

June 1987 – Dec 1987: An eighteen weekend training seminar sponsored by the American College of Vocational Experts to provide specialty training in Vocational Testing, Functional Capacity Evaluations, Ergonomics, Med/Voc ratings, Vocational Assessment of Lost Earnings, Legal and Economic Issues.

 

Dec 1975: Boston College School of Social Work, Alcoholism Training Program Northeastern Employee Assistance Training Institute, on Program installation and supervising training with emphasis on community resource development and exploration.

 

Sept 1975 – Nov 1976: Boston City Hospital Alcoholism Training Program Boston, Massachusetts; A fourteen-month comprehensive clinical training program involving counseling of the alcoholic and their families both group and individual treatment techniques. This special training program is one of seven which exists in the United States.

           500 hours of Academic & Clinical training.

Training Experiences:

Certifications:

 

 

1987       Certified Vocational Evaluator on PAS – I

                   

      1985     Certified Vocational Expert, American Board of

                   Vocational Experts

 

      1976     Certified Employee Assistance Training, Boston

                   College, Northeastern Training Institute

 

      1975     Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, National

                   Rehabilitation Counseling Association, Washington,

                   D.C. #4828

 

      1975     Certified in Adult Individual Psychological Testing

                   Graduate School of Education, Suffolk University

 

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