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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Date: August 4, 2006
In This ISSUE:
1) New from NCWD Youth - Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career-Focused Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities
2) Whose Life Is It Anyway? How One Teenager, Her Parents, and Her Teacher View the Transition Process for a Young Person with Disabilities Wisconsin Healthy & Ready to Work: A Series of Materials Supporting Youth with Special Health Care Needs
3) Project Participate a website with success stories and practical solutions
4) Finding a Job that is Right for You: A Practical Approach to Looking for a Job as a Person with a Disability
5) Google Grants Program Provides In-Kind Advertising Services to Nonprofits -- Funding Opportunity
6) Google Accessible Search for People with Vision Impairments
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1) New from NCWD Youth - Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career-Focused Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities – has been developed by the NCWD/Youth to specifically address the needs of youth with disabilities during their transition from school to work.
This Guide is intended for individuals designing career-focused mentoring programs for youth, including youth with disabilities, who are in the transition phase to adulthood.
Mentoring is recognized as one of the most important strategies for assisting youth in making a positive transition into adulthood. Both caring adults and peers may play a key role in mentoring. In response to the under-representation of youth with disabilities in most youth development programs, ODEP, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, launched an initiative to promote mentoring for youth with disabilities in 2004.
Mentoring is recognized as one of the most important strategies for assisting youth in making a positive transition into adulthood. Despite all of the information available on mentoring, there is very little about mentoring youth with disabilities or about career-focused mentoring of older youth. This Guide was developed by the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) specifically to address the needs of youth with disabilities during their transition from school to work.
This Guide is intended for individuals designing mentoring programs for youth, including youth with disabilities, in the transition phase to adulthood.
Download The Complete Guide
Download the entire book in PDF http://www.ncwd-youth.info/assets/guides/mentoring/Mentoring_Guide-complete.pdf
Download in Word format http://www.ncwd-youth.info/assets/guides/mentoring/Mentoring_Guide-complete.doc
These are large documents and download time will be longer for users with slower connections.
Download Sections & Forms
Each of the seven chapters and the appendices can be separately downloaded below in PDF or MS Word. Also available individually are the cover letter and introduction, and the disclosure glossary. These are available by going to http://www.ncwd-youth.info/resources_&_Publications/mentoring.html
From: NCWD/Youth
2) Whose Life Is It Anyway? How One Teenager, Her Parents, and Her Teacher View the Transition Process for a Young Person with Disabilities Wisconsin Healthy & Ready to Work: A Series of Materials Supporting Youth with Special Health Care Needs –
Download booklet free at www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/pub.html (Adobe pdf 98 pages large print)
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/WLIA.pdf
Copies $10 call (608) 265- 9852 or order on-line http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/pub.html
This book encourages partners to take time to get to know each other as they move forward in the future planning process. In addition, in telling the story of Becky’s transition, it offers readers some “out of the box” possibilities for young people, especially those with cognitive disabilities. New frontiers of assistive technology and college experiences are being realized for youth with cognitive disabilities across the country. We are seeing young people with cognitive disabilities who could never read or write, now reading and writing independently with their software programs. We are seeing young adults with such disabilities actively participating on college campuses with their same age peers: sitting in on college classes, studying with their peers, and joining student organizations. It is happening across this country and right here in this book with Becky. Readers are invited to dream big, live with great expectations, know the meaning of hard work, and
commit to building trusting relationships with each other. For more stories go to http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/pub.html
From: Kids Together Inc.
3) Project Participate a website with success stories and practical solutions – Project Participate provides families, educators, administrators and therapists with simple strategies to increase the active participation of students with disabilities in school programs. Supported by a U.S. Department of Education, Project Participate facilitates team collaboration and promotes the appropriate uses of technology in the classroom.
Explore the site to see success stories and learn practical solutions to enhance learning, teaching, and the full inclusion of students with disabilities in the classroom. Download sample curricular adaptations, handouts for training, intervention planning forms and more!
http://www.projectparticipate.org
From: Kids Together Inc
4) Finding a Job that is Right for You: A Practical Approach to Looking for a Job as a Person with a Disability – The Job Accommodation Network consultants have developed this employment guide for job seekers as well as job candidates entering the workforce. This guide provides a four-step process with easy-to-use information, tools, and resources on subjects encountered when job seeking. These include disclosing a disability, requesting an accommodation, and career exploration designed to help people with disabilities find the job which is a good fit for them. The tool can be found at http://www.jan.wvu.edu/job/.
5) Google Grants Program Provides In-Kind Advertising Services to Nonprofits – Funding Opportunity Deadline: Open
The Google Grants program supports organizations that share the company's philosophy of community service worldwide in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.
Designed for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program that harnesses the power of Google's flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to non-profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online. Google Grants has awarded AdWords advertising to hundreds of nonprofit groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting homeless children to promoting HIV education.
Google Grant recipients use their award of free AdWords advertising on Google.com to raise awareness and increase traffic. Each organization awarded a Google Grant receives at least three months of in-kind advertising.
In the United States, applicant organizations must have current 501(c)(3) status as assigned by the Internal Revenue Service to be considered for a Google Grant. Outside the United States, Google is currently accepting applications from eligible charitable organizations based in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Google Grants recipients are selected every quarter. Visit the program's Web site for complete program information, application procedures, and an FAQ. RFP Link: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10003588/google
6) Google Accessible Search for People with Vision Impairments – Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.
Link to the search:
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Link to the FAQ:
http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html
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