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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Date: August 4, 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) New from NCWD Youth -
[http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=88921490&u=825677]
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 -
[http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=88921490&u=825677]
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]
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]
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]
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 [http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/pub.html]
www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/pub.html (Adobe pdf 98 pages large print)
[http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/wrc/WLIA.pdf]
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]
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]
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/] 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/]
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]
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/] http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Link to the FAQ:
[http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html]
http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html
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