UTAH SCHOOL TO WORK INTERAGENCY TRANSITION INITIATIVE OUR GOALS Confirm and engage the Utah School to Work Interagency Council. Reconvene this council and define roles, responsibilities and solidify commitments. Develop a unified action plan with established benchmarks, as well as a plan for ongoing monitoring and evaluation. Identify innovative networking strategies to improve on…
SOUTH CAROLINA EMPLOYMENT FIRST INITIATIVE The three goals of the SC Employment First Initiative are: Equip high school students and recent graduates with intellectual and developmental disabilities with the skills, awareness, and confidence needed to enter competitive employment. How? By establishing statewide procedures for collecting student employment data, implementing an employment model and peer mentoring program…
MASSACHUSETTS PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSITION TO EMPLOYMENT The Massachusetts Partnership for Transition to Employment (MPTE) is a five-year project to improve labor market participation for youth and young adults served by the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services (DDS). The project is funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. DDS and its MPTE partners will implement evidence-based…
KENTUCKYWORKS It is the goal of KentuckyWorks to increase post-school outcomes (integrated employment; participation in post-secondary education; or both) for students with the most significant disabilities in our state by 20 percentage points over the five years of this grant. As one of the few states in the nation that measures the post-school outcomes for every student with an…
HAWAII JOBS NOW PARTNERSHIP PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Hawaii Jobs Now Partnership is facilitated by University of Hawaii – Center on Disability Studies in collaboration with Hawaii Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Health, the Department of Education, and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the Department of Human Services. This…
DC LEARNERS AND EARNERS DC Learners and Earners initiative is aimed at improving employment outcomes for young people with intellectual disabilities. Recognizing that, to be successful this will require change at every level, DC is working with people with disabilities and families to build high expectations for employment and share tips for success; with…
Serena Lowe, TASH’s interim Executive Director, talks with Cesilee Coulson, the Executive Director of WISE, the Washington Initiative for Supported Employment. They have the sort of conversation you might expect from two people with such depth of experience in these issues: high-level, broad-ranging, big ideas. But mostly they talk about the necessity to not letting…
We talk with we talk with Julie Christensen, the Director of Policy and Advocacy at APSE. APSE has recently conducted a major survey of employment service providers about the impact of COVID-19 and its economic consequences for people with disabilities. We talk about the ways the COVID-19 crisis has affected the employment of people with…
At the TASH conference in December, the YES! Center’s, Dale Verstegen spoke with Julie Hocker, the Commissioner of the Administration on Disabilities at the Administration for Community Living at the Department of Health and Human Services. They have a rather personal discussion of Commissioner Hocker’s path to the success she has achieved, the things she…
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, CalTASH chapter Vice President Zachary Miller was in his third year working part of the day in the California State House and part in the Capitol cafeteria. Zachary had worked with the California State Developmental Disabilities Service Organization (DDSO) for placement and job coaching in the position. On March 17th,…
This project is supported by grant number 90DNTA0001 from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201
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