Facing the Future 2025 Conference - Early Bird Registration Open
Navigation Strategies for Competitive Integrated Employment
October 10, 2025 | New Brunswick, NJ
NJAPSE is proud to once again co-sponsor the Facing the Future 2025 Conference in partnership with The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities. This year's theme, "Uncharted Waters," invites professionals, advocates, and self-advocates to explore innovative strategies and practical tools that support Competitive Integrated Employment for people with disabilities.
Join us for a full day of engaging workshops, expert-led sessions, and networking opportunities with leaders across the field of supported employment and transition. With 12 dynamic workshops and a keynote presentation by Duncan Winburn, this event promises to energize and inspire those committed to Employment First principles.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, this conference offers valuable insight and collaboration that can help navigate the ever-evolving landscape of inclusive employment.
We can’t wait to connect with you there—register today and let’s face the future, together.
Introduction to Benefits and Employment
Wednesday July 30, 2025 | 10:00am - 12:00pm | Zoom (Virtual)
Learn the basics of how benefits may, or may not, be impacted by working and where to go for help.
Back by popular demand! Adam Kubler, Vice President of NJAPSE, discusses, in plain terms, how working affects Social Security Income and Medicaid. He will also touch on how Social Security calculates income, work incentives that allow individuals to earn more money while collecting Social Security Income, and how Medicaid plays into all of this. Information on resources such as, nj.DB101.org, how to report your income, where to get benefits counseling and what to do if something goes wrong. Reserve your virtual seat now!
This is FREE for APSE Members and $15 for non-members.
New Jersey APSE became a chapter in development when a small group of representatives with a goal for improving employment outcomes for people with disabilities got together on October 28, 1991 at a meeting facilitated by Rebecca McDonald and Ellen Nalven. One year later, after completing the formulation period, NJ APSE became one of the first five APSE chapters and started planning the first NJ APSE conference, Facing the Future: Innovation and Improvement in Supported Employment, which was held on March 11-12, 1993. NJ APSE remains one of the strongest APSE chapters, continues to hold the annual Facing the Future Conference, and is comprised of vibrant, passionate, enthusiastic members committed to the APSE mission and goal of equitable employment for people with disabilities.
Today, NJ APSE provides advocacy and education concerning the value of employment translating into "Real Work for Real Pay"!
We work to expand employment opportunities. We promote best practices that result in services leading to employment.
We drive state and local legislation and policy that leads to social and economic advancement.
Check out our Professional Development page to learn about the events happening through NJ APSE year round.