AgrAbility National Training Workshop Encore Webinars 2026
For this Encore webinar series, AgrAbility will feature four presentations that could not be given at the 2026 in-person National Training Workshop (NTW) due to weather-related travel cancelations
Each one-hour webinar begins at 3:00 p.m. EDT on the given Tuesday.
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- June 30: The Motherhouse Project: A Beekeeper Client Success Story
- The presenter met AgrAbility staff members in fall 2023 at the New Mexico Senior Conference and, as a disabled beekeeper, he became a New Mexico AgrAbility (NMAP) client in spring 2024 and later a New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (NMDVR) client. Working with NMDVR and NMAP, he obtained specialized woodworking equipment, and The Motherhouse Project was born in summer 2025. The pilot program was scheduled to start spring 2026. He builds bee nesting boxes and plants pollinating strips to sustain farm crops. His goal for this presentation is to demonstrate how NMAP and NMTAP work with clients.
- David Wyllie, HoneyBee Home Crafters
- The presenter met AgrAbility staff members in fall 2023 at the New Mexico Senior Conference and, as a disabled beekeeper, he became a New Mexico AgrAbility (NMAP) client in spring 2024 and later a New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (NMDVR) client. Working with NMDVR and NMAP, he obtained specialized woodworking equipment, and The Motherhouse Project was born in summer 2025. The pilot program was scheduled to start spring 2026. He builds bee nesting boxes and plants pollinating strips to sustain farm crops. His goal for this presentation is to demonstrate how NMAP and NMTAP work with clients.
- July 7: Mental Health and Agriculture: The OT Perspective and Practice
- Farmers face unique stressors and elevated mental-health risk. This session defines the occupational therapist’s role, identifies agricultural stressors and red flags, and demonstrates brief screens (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C) with functional measures (COPM/PSFS). Using a case, presenters give farm-ready interventions that pair person-level strategies (routines, sleep/pain) with environmental/workflow changes and outline an OT/AgrAbility collaboration pathway for assessment, referral, and follow-up
- Logan Fields and Erin Bales, Wilmington College
- Farmers face unique stressors and elevated mental-health risk. This session defines the occupational therapist’s role, identifies agricultural stressors and red flags, and demonstrates brief screens (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C) with functional measures (COPM/PSFS). Using a case, presenters give farm-ready interventions that pair person-level strategies (routines, sleep/pain) with environmental/workflow changes and outline an OT/AgrAbility collaboration pathway for assessment, referral, and follow-up
- July 14: Cultivating Resilience: How Missouri AgrAbility and 4-H Promote Farm Safety and Mental Wellbeing for All Youth
- This session highlights how Missouri AgrAbility and 4-H are partnering to increase farm safety, promote mental wellbeing, and develop skills in rural youth with different abilities. Through hands-on programs and universal-design approaches, the initiative empowers young people to build resilience, reduce stigma, and find purpose in agriculture and rural life while supporting healthy minds and safe communities.
- Emily Doosing and Karen Funkenbusch, University of Missouri/Missouri AgrAbility Project
- This session highlights how Missouri AgrAbility and 4-H are partnering to increase farm safety, promote mental wellbeing, and develop skills in rural youth with different abilities. Through hands-on programs and universal-design approaches, the initiative empowers young people to build resilience, reduce stigma, and find purpose in agriculture and rural life while supporting healthy minds and safe communities.
- July 28: Communicating Economic Impacts of AgrAbility to Stakeholders
- This session will give participants a grounding in economic impact analysis and then discuss the current state of efforts to evaluate the economic impacts of the AgrAbility project in Colorado and in AgrAbility as a whole. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm and provide input into the topic.
- Rebecca Hill, Colorado AgrAbility
- This session will give participants a grounding in economic impact analysis and then discuss the current state of efforts to evaluate the economic impacts of the AgrAbility project in Colorado and in AgrAbility as a whole. Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm and provide input into the topic.