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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 3 Date: July 19, 2006
The Connecting Point is an email update service from the CORE
(Choices, Options, and Resources, Education) Project of Washington
PAVE (Parents are Vital in Education). The Connecting Point provides
information, resources and updates to help transitioning students and
adults with disabilities, their families, schools, and other organizations and
agencies understand services and options available for adults needing
additional supports.
In This ISSUE:
1) The Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate For Public High Schools
2) Federal Transit Administration Awards Grants to States
3) New Edition of "Impact" Focuses on Parenting Teens and Young Adult with Disabilities
4) The Wit to Win: How to Integrate Older Persons with Developmental Disabilities In Community Aging Programs
5) A family handbook on future planning
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1) THE AVERAGED FRESHMAN GRADUATION RATE FOR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS -- This report presents the averaged freshman graduation rate for public high school students for school years 2002-03 and 2003-04 based on data reported by state education agencies to the National Center for Education Statistics. Rates are included for most of the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and three other jurisdictions for both years. Comparing the averaged freshman graduation rate among public school students in the class of 2002-03 to that of 2003-04 in each of the 48 reporting states and the District of Columbia, 32 states and the District of Columbia experienced increases in the rate,1 state experienced no change, and 15 states experienced declines in the rate over this 2-year period.
http://news.publiceducation.org/t/5220/79817/137/0/
2) Federal Transit Administration Awards Grants to States -- The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded grants to 32 States for United We Ride (UWR). The UWR grants will be used to enhance transportation services for people with disabilities, older adults and individuals with lower incomes. The significance of the grants is to improve transportation coordination, as well as, to break down the barriers between transit and human service programs. UWR State Coordination grants may be used for either planning or implementation. Planning grants for up to $35,000 are to develop an extensive State transportation coordination assessment using the UWR Framework for Action and to create a comprehensive State action plan for coordinating human service transportation. Implementation grants for up to $75,000 are for States which have created an extensive State action plan. These grants can be used for implementing one or more of the components identified within their State action plan relating to the UWR Framework for Action. The recipients are: Planning Grants: South Dakota, Wyoming and Guam. Implementation Grants: Kansas, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arizona, New Jersey, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, Kentucky, Vermont, New York, Nebraska, Alabama, and Minnesota. http://www.unitedweride.gov/
From: Monday Morning in Washington, D.C.
3) New Edition of "Impact" Focuses on Parenting Teens and Young Adult with Disabilities -- The passage from childhood to adulthood is a passage for families as well as individuals. As young people with disabilities move from their teen to adult years, they and their families experience many growing pains in common with all families at that stage of life. In addition, there are often milestones, questions, concerns, needs, and challenges unique to individuals with disabilities and their families. In this issue of Impact we explore strategies for families of teens and young adults with disabilities to consider in navigating the transition years with their young person, and share stories of those who are in the middle of it or have come out the other side. For the generation of young people with disabilities reaching adulthood today there are ever-expanding opportunities to pursue adult lives that reflect their goals, dreams, ambitions, values, and life visions. And there are still barriers to that achievement--limitations in services, supports, resources, and options. It's our hope that the articles in this Impact will provide a glimpse of what is possible, offer useful ideas for moving past some of the limitations that get in the way, and support families, teens, and young adults in dreaming big and realizing those dreams. Links to the issue can be found at http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/192/default.html or http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/192/192.pdf
From: REFERENCE POINTS
4) The Wit to Win: How to Integrate Older Persons with Developmental Disabilities In Community Aging Programs (pdf) -- by Philip LePore and Matthew P. Janick - The third edition of this 56-page booklet was issued in 1997.It describes activities that can be undertaken to help eligible adults with developmental disabilities make better use of Older American Act services and supports, in particular senior centers, congregate nutrition sites, and adult day services. Also covered is the use of companion programs, shared housing, and other senior housing. Developed originally under a contract from the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, this third edition was updated and printed with support from a grant from the US Administration on Aging. The document is available as a .pdf file for downloading using Acrobat Reader. http://www.uic.edu/orgs/rrtcamr/witowin.pdf
5) A family handbook on future planning, (2003). Davis, Sharon, (Ed.). Produced by The Arc of the United States and the RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities.
This guide helps families take the initial steps to address the future personal, legal, and financial needs of their sons or daughters with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It teaches families how to review and inventory their relative's needs and strengths, determine what the plan should include, and locate qualified professionals and resources to finalize the plan. It is an update of The Arc's 1991 handbook on future planning and the 1989 publication How to Provide for Their Future.
ITEM NO.: 300.011 COST PER UNIT: No charge View online at the RRTC Website: www.rrtcadd.org and http://www.uic.edu/orgs/rrtcamr/Futureplanninghandbook.doc
The Arc website: www.thearc.org and print at no cost
If you cannot download a copy, a printed, stapled copy
may be purchased from the ARC:
Please contact Jill Fosse at The Arc:
fosse@thearc.org, (301) 565-5476
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