When should a student or youth disclose their disability and any accommodation needs to their employer? How can they request an accommodation? Amy and Christy process these questions and offer practical advice along the way.
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Life Hacks for Transition: Episode 8
What happens once students have the job? Your role transitions to ensuring the student has the accommodations they need to be a successful employee. Listen in as Amy and Christy share examples of workplace supports, and what they’ve learned in the process.
Get to Know Your School Counselor: Improving Collaboration to Support College and Career Readiness for Youth with Disabilities
This webinar will focus on the nature of college and career readiness supports among youth with IEPs, on 504 plans, and without disabilities using the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 data.
Enhancing Interagency Collaboration: Strategies to Improve Student Experiences in CTE
This webinar will provide a synthesis of information gained from state personnel across Career Technical Education (CTE), Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), and Special Education (SpEd) interviewed regarding how their state developed collaborative processes across CTE, VR, and SpEd agencies/offices.
Transition Services & Contemporary Mental Health Related Issues & Approaches
A variety of issues can impact the mental health of individuals who have reached the developmental period associated with transition services.
Life Hacks for Transition: Episode 7
In the second part of a two-part series on networking, Thanksgiving dessert commences with a discussion on the roles that VR counselors and other providers play in connecting students and prospective employers for work-based learning.
Life Hacks for Transition: Episode 6
In this first part of a two-part series, Amy and Christy kick off Thanksgiving dinner with a conversation around networking and the value it brings to the work-based learning experiences you develop.
Opportunities for Collaboration: Vocational Rehabilitation and WIOA Youth Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation and the Dept. of Labor WIOA Youth address the ways these programs can work together to support youth and students with disabilities transition to post-secondary education and/or employment. It also outlines a print resource they have developed on the same subject.
Webinar: Watch Party – Let’s Work Documentary with the California Transition Alliance
This webinar event will include a pre-recorded viewing of the Let’s Work documentary directed by Joey Travolta with an open discussion afterward.
Life Hacks for Transition: Episode 5
Amy and Christy weigh in on the ongoing work of marketing yourself to employers for work-based learning experiences for students with disabilities.