State Programs – By Topic
These Centers provide students with academic support, enrichment, and school engagement through afterschool and summer programming, with a focus on college and career readiness (among other topics). The program targets students in high-poverty areas and is a collaboration between the University of Delaware’s Center for Disability Studies and the Delaware Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program helps individuals with disabilities secure employment in state government on a trial period. Participants receive a position for 700 hours of work, which can transform into full-time long-term employment during or immediately following the trial period. The program is a collaboration between the Nevada Department of Administration’s Division of Human Resource Management, and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s Rehabilitation Division.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This program offers comprehensive special education instruction for students with disabilities, with a focus on vocational education. Specific subject areas include economics, keyboarding, computer technology, career education, industrial arts, and business education.
Operating Entity: ACCESS Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
ASTEP is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Minot State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: North Dakota
ACCE is a two-semester program on the University of Arkansas Little Rock campus that enables students with disabilities to have a college experience while preparing for employment in a competitive field. Academic support, social support, work exploration, and job placement are all components of the program. It is a partnership between Easterseals Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides curriculum modifications and special equipment to enable students with disabilities to participate in state-approved Career and Technical Education (CTE) work-based learning (WBL) programs.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Education, Career and Technical Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program offers a variety of courses for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, ranging from Braille and academic studies to independent living, life adjustment, technology, business and employment skills, and recreation.
Operating Entity: Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
Participants in the day training program get a personalized service plan that focuses on the following: 1) social and communication skills, 2) functional life skills, 3) recreation, 4) health and wellness activities, 5) educational, volunteer, and employment opportunities, and 6) self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides supported employment services to individuals with mental illness who require ongoing supports to maintain successful employment.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health (OBH)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides education and employment training to individuals with disabilities across three tiers. In Tier 3, the program focuses on community integration, in tier 2, it focuses on obtaining work and social interaction experience with supervision, and in tier 1, participants participate in employment opportunities with little to no supervision.
Operating Entity: Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life (ACCEL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides services to people with disabilities looking to obtain or retain employment. Employment services include counseling and guidance, on-the-job training, supported employment, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission, Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program accepts three new farmers with disabilities a year into an incubator program to help them get a start in small-scale farming.
Operating Entity: University of Georgia, Institute on Human Development and Disability
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Georgia
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
These Centers provide workforce assistance to job seekers and employers. Vocational Rehabilitation counselors are co-located at American Job Centers to encourage clients to register for applicable services available through partner programs. Technologists offer technical assistance to Job Centers on approaches to increasing the accessibility of the centers and partner services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
The North Dakota School for the Deaf provides assistance for students transitioning from high school, including around assistive technology, career exploration, and transition supports unique for people with hearing loss.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, North Dakota School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program helps individuals with autism spectrum disorder transition to adulthood and find, keep, and succeed in a job. Services include job skills exploration and training, vocational assessment, job development, on-the-job training, and long-term training and support.
Operating Entity: Autism Society of North Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This six- to eight-week paid pre-apprenticeship training program provides a career path for individuals who are blind or visually impaired into employer-based apprenticeships or direct placement. The program includes work readiness development, job shadowing, and a Job Club experience.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
BCVDDP provides a range of services to youth with vision impairments and their families, including confidence-building activities, caregiver support and training, training to increase a child’s independence and ability to participate in vocational related activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program offers vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. This includes vocational guidance and career counseling, assistive technology services, job placement, and transportation.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program trains people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in music, dance, theater, and visual arts. It encourages self-expression and creativity, while simultaneously enabling participants to obtain a potential career in the arts. Courses are three days per week, with new class offerings every six months.
Operating Entity: Opportunity Village
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program trains individuals with disabilities, including transition-age youth with disabilities, in starting businesses. It consists of six classes, focusing on launching, managing, and growing businesses. It then provides technical assistance as individuals with disabilities first start small businesses.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Rhode Island
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Blind Services (DBS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), State Services for the Blind (SSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission, Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Washington State Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Washington
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: West Virginia
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Texas Workforce Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This supported employment program for individuals with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses takes place at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and provides vocational readiness assessments; vocational counseling and planning; assistance developing interview skills, finding jobs, and resume writing; internship placement; and coordination with the individual’s medical team and community agencies, schools, and potential employers.
Operating Entity: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps individuals with disabilities find jobs in Tennessee’s growing health care industry. It provides job training in a mock CVS Pharmacy inside the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Tennessee Rehabilitation Center (TRC), which leads to consideration for a career with CVS Health. It is a partnership between CVS and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This week-long, immersive leadership camp helps youth with disabilities develop self-advocacy and social skills while giving them paid work experience and career exposure in the natural resources industry. It is a collaboration between the Youth Transition Program (YTP) within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Oregon State Parks.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides paid work experiences for youth ages 15-22 whom have barriers to employment, such as disability or health conditions. Leadership Crew members train service dogs and serve as Camp Counselors at Camp L.E.A.D., a leadership, empowerment, and abuse prevention day camp in Taos for younger children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program is designed to ensure that special populations (including students with disabilities) have equal access to career and technical education services and job training. Preparatory services are provided in the middle school or prior to a student’s enrollment in a career and technical education program at high school. These services include recruitment of potential career and technical education students, career guidance, vocational assessment, and monitoring.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
Participants in this course are supported in developing the skills necessary to prepare for, acquire and maintain a job. Students practice and develop skills related to interviews, job search, resumes, career choice, and job discovery. Participants are also connected to job shadowing opportunities and vocational rehabilitation services.
Operating Entity: Foundation for Blind Children
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
The Career Pathways Connections program provides opportunities for individuals with hearing loss to enter the workforce and obtain sustainable employment. The program is run by staff that are proficient in American Sign Language, experienced in identifying workplace accommodations, trained in assistive technologies, and knowledgeable in resources for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
CCS is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Portland State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Oregon
The Phoenix Day School for the Deaf provides extensive career and technical education services to its students, including general career-based classes, senior seminars, career exploration, and work experience. It also provides students with the opportunity to attend vocational training in their preferred vocational trade.
Operating Entity: Phoenix Day School for the Deaf (PDSD)
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Arizona
This program trains students who are deaf or hard of hearing to become qualified to enter competitive job markets. It focuses on helping students set and achieve either postsecondary or occupational goals. All students receive national industry certifications upon completing this program.
Operating Entity: Mississippi School for the Deaf
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program is offered at Western Nevada College and Truckee Meadows Community College in conjunction with Nevada Vocational Rehabilitation. It provides career readiness training to students with disabilities over the course of a three-week program, focusing on soft skills, resume writing, and job application best practices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
CTI conducts research and demonstration projects to advance employment outcomes for youth with disabilities and to support the Virginia Department of Education in its efforts. One specific initiative is Start on Success, which has nine sites in the state and is a model transition program that provides selected students with high incidence disabilities with a community-based work experience.
Operating Entity: Virginia Commonwealth University, Partnership for People with Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Virginia
Certificate Programs offer hands-on training programs to students and adults with disabilities. This opportunity results from a partnership with local Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation service offices, three to five core business partners in the area, a community college, and local schools. Students take classes, tour business, and either work part-time or participate in an internship with employer partners.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program arranges specific community learning situations for individuals with disabilities, based on their individual goals, to help them engage with others and experience life situations. Each outing has a specific purpose and can include employment, academics, and social experiences.
Operating Entity: Creative Enterprises
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
Four Clubhouses throughout the state offer a variety of services to help individuals with mental illness attain work. Services include in-house prevocational programs, transitional employment, and competitive employment in the community with or without Supported Employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for post-secondary training through exposure to the college environment, as well as guidance on self-advocacy skills, study strategies, and technology use. It is offered virtually and at twelve sites in the state to Department of Rehabilitation Services consumers who are planning to attend post-secondary training.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps youth and adults with disabilities learn job skills and find employment in their communities through pre-employment skills training; resume, application, and interview coaching; job search and job placement assistance; and on-the-job training and support.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Florida
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
Employment Specialists are embedded in behavioral health organizations across the state to assist individuals living with serious mental illness in career exploration and securing employment. The program is a collaboration between the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Office of Behavioral Health, the Maine Department of Labor Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, and the Maine Medical Center Department of Vocational Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
This program assists individuals with severe physical and sensory disabilities in building a life of their choosing through self-direction, support, and community resources. Services focus on assistive technology, education, independent living, job training, and more.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division for Community Living
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program offers employment-related and support services to vocational rehabilitation consumers with specialized needs, including vocational evaluation, community-based assessment, job development, and job coaching. They are provided through partnerships with independent community rehabilitation programs across the state.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides students with a variety of opportunities and experiences in preparation for competitive integrated employment and/or postsecondary education or training. The program includes both Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and Individualized Transition Services (ITS). It is a collaboration between local educational agencies, the Kentucky Department of Education, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides work experiences for transition-eligible students with visual disabilities to improve their success rate at post-secondary education and employment.
Operating Entity: Missouri Department of Social Services, Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Missouri
This program provides employment assistance to individuals with disabilities who have the most significant limitations. It focuses on building employer-employee relationships and providing long-term employment support.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program offers a variety of services for youth who are blind or visually impaired, to help them prepare for the transition from school to work or post-secondary education.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a variety of leadership and vocational opportunities for youth with disabilities, including capacity-building workshops, community-based activities, work-based learning opportunities, and civic engagement experiences.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program offers individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities training that emphasizes skills and knowledge required for a particular job function (such as customer service, janitorial or sorting clothes) or a trade (such as landscaping).
Operating Entity: Community HealthCore
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program includes prevocational services, as well as small group and individual employment supports, to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities obtain and maintain employment.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides services to consumers who are deafblind and/or legally blind with cognitive issues. Services include vocational, prevocational, and social day programs, as well as assistance accessing adaptive equipment, low vision aides, flex funding, and more.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB), Deaf Blind Extended Supports (DBES) Unit
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. This includes vocational counseling and guidance; vocational evaluation to determine skills, abilities, and potential to work; vocational training; purchase of hearing aids and appropriate communications devices; interpreter services for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining employment; job placement assistance; and rehabilitation technology services.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides vocational rehabilitation and independent living services specifically for people who are deaf or hard of hearing across the state.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has counselors who are specially trained to understand the needs and abilities of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Services include trainings on hearing loss issues in the workplace, guidance and counseling on coping with hearing loss, and interpreting services for job interviews.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program is designed to support those with significant disabilities on their journey to sustainable employment, through customized employment and training, integrated services, and more.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Economic Development, Disability Employment Initiative (DEI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at work, at home, and in the community. It provides day services that include self advocacy training and work skills and employment services and training.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Northern Rocky Mountain
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This five-day camp is designed to expose middle school girls with disabilities (6th-9th grades in the fall) to STEM topics, including hands-on activities and experiments.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps students with disabilities obtain academic credits outside of their traditional school walls. Students are matched with professions and learn more about the skills and education required to be successful in that field. Classroom skills training includes resume building, mock interviews, appropriate work-site behavior, and professionalism.
Operating Entity: Granite State
Independent
Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
EDSN serves as an employment agency that helps people with disabilities obtain integrated, competitive employment with a wide range of private sector employers.
Operating Entity: Easterseals DC MD VA
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Virginia
This program works with the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) to help students transition from school to the world of work and community services. This includes providing Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) beginning as early as age 14.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps Arizona residents who are blind prepare for employment or educational opportunities. These services include career exploration, job readiness, job development, remedial education, tuition and supply assistance, reader and note taker services, tutoring, GED preparation, and alternative media.
Operating Entity: SAAVI Services for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of services to assist individuals with disabilities in preparing for and attaining work. Services include vocational evaluation, assistance preparing for interviews, job placement services, job coaching, supported employment, employment skills technology training, preparation for jobs in the janitorial industry, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program matches people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to unpaid internships at Temple University Hospital and Temple’s University Main Campus in Philadelphia with a goal of achieving long-term, part-time employment.
Operating Entity: Temple University, Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
The Employment Opportunities Program (EOP) enables individuals with the most significant disabilities who need on-going support to maintain competitive employment after stability has been achieved and who are not eligible for on-going employment support from other sources.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program helps individuals find employment opportunities in the community at minimum wage or higher. Services are designed to help individuals identify skills and interests, develop relationships with community businesses, and ultimately carve out a long-term career path.
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
These services help individuals with visual impairment or blindness develop the skills and confidence to join the workforce. Services include job readiness and skills assessments, career exploration and counseling, job shadowing, job coaching, and more.
Operating Entity: BLIND, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides workforce development, job skills training, and job placement services to help people who are deaf or blind enhance their employment skills.
Operating Entity: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, E.H. Gentry Program
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program creates and prepares work settings that promote the most independent work for individuals with disabilities, based on individualized plans to guide clients to their fullest potential.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program trains clients who are visually impaired or blind on job readiness skills. Specific services include vocational and situational assessments, resume support, interviewing skills development, job development, job placement and retention services, job coaching services, job accommodation support, and travel training.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a range of employment training services in a classroom setting, including vocational assessments, benefits planning counseling, job skill development and maintenance, job development and placement, job coaching, pre-vocational training, and employer advocacy and support.
Operating Entity: The Arc in Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
These services include Pre-Employment Training Services and Community Work Transition Services, which help high school students ages 14-21 become college or career ready by graduation. Other services include Supported Employment and Employment and Retention, which provide job coaching and assistance with job applications, resumes, interview skills, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals West Kentucky
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a variety of services to graduates of Workforce and Technology Center training programs and other individuals with disabilities. Services include job search assistance, cover letter and resume development, interviewing skills preparation, career search skills, business etiquette training, networking and job development, and education on how to disclose disabilities and request accommodations.
Operating Entity: Maryland Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides assistance and training to help individuals with developmental disabilities maintain and improve their skills in vocational activities and enhance their social and personal development and well-being within the context of vocational goals. These services develop paid employment opportunities in integrated settings.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides guidance and counseling, transition services, job search and placement, assistive technology and equipment, as well as other services tailored to the specific needs of individuals with disabilities. It also provides various resources to help people attend state community colleges and career/technical schools, including tuition, fees, books, tools, uniforms, and supplies.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Public Education Department, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program supports individuals with disabilities in developing the necessary skills to obtain work in the community, find a suitable job, and succeed in the workplace. Prevocational services focus on identifying vocational interests and sharpening job-specific skills and global job skills, such as employer expectations and workplace behavior.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New York
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
Employment Specialists help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities find and maintain competitive integrated employment in the Austin community. Services include supported employment, job placement, work experience, job skills training, and more.
Operating Entity: The Arc – Capital Area
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program helps adults with disabilities find and keep jobs through one-on-one support. All services are provided free of charge.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Central Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program seeks to economically empower people with disabilities by helping them build sustainable businesses. The program offers mentoring, employment and entrepreneurship workshops, art classes, and hosts an online shop where artists can sell their work.
Operating Entity: Synergies Work
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
This program prepares people with disabilities to find and keep a job through services like career exploration, job search assistance, job placement, and coaching. It also includes school-to-work transition services, as well as supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This job readiness program utilizes technology in schools and community centers to provide training to students with disabilities ages 14 to 24 to prepare them for future employment. The program introduces students to job search engines and the online job application process, and offers hands-on experience with technology students might find in the workplace.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Central Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides coordinated vocational employment services, including industry-specific training programs, to adults ages 21 and older with developmental disabilities.
Operating Entity: State of Connecticut Department of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program offers a range of services – including occupational counseling, re-employment services, employment services, and referrals – to help connect employers and job applicants, and pays special attention to serving people with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources (PRDOLHR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a variety of services to help people with disabilities address employment challenges and achieve personal goals. Services include temporary job placement in Easterseals industries, assignment of a job coach, transportations supports, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
This program includes internship programs and job training and coaching services to help people with disabilities attain employment. It also includes the Latino Connection program, which provides training and education to Latino and non-native English speaking participants focusing on employment.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides supported employment services to Rhode Island residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It focuses on providing work readiness training, preparing participants for careers playing to their strengths, developing community ties, counseling participants on career options, and engaging participants in customized training for their selected job.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Rhode Island
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program helps out-of-school youth with disabilities find jobs in competitive integrated settings. Participants are connected with entry-level jobs with a chance for advancement, and the program compensates employers for payroll expenses.
Operating Entity: Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and the Nebraska Department of Education’s Special Education division offer enhanced transitions services for students with disabilities, including around benefits planning in relation to career choices, communicating disability-related work support and accommodation needs, and finding and requesting support or accommodations in education, training, and employment settings.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This postsecondary vocational training program provides 10-13 week training sessions in hospitality, food service, healthcare, and inventory distribution to help individuals with disabilities master key job skills and gain valuable work experience through an internship. It also includes Camp EGTI, which is focused on assisting youth with disabilities in their transitions from school to adulthood, as well as two-day Career Sampling sessions, which enable participants to shadow employees and perform portions of the job.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Indiana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides vocational, psychological, transitional, and driver education services to assist individuals with disabilities in living and working independently.
Operating Entity: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Education, Rehabilitation Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Illinois
Express Yourself! Art is an art, recreational, and vocational program that seeks to give individuals with disabilities skills to express themselves, explore creative interests, and discover career opportunities in the arts. The program also helps individuals with disabilities build confidence and leadership abilities.
Operating Entity: Mississippi State University, T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides additional and continuous employment support to some Vocational Rehabilitation clients, including ongoing job coaching to help participants overcome unique work barriers.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Disability Employment and Transitions Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
This mentoring program pairs college and high school students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD with similarly-labeled middle school students, to help the younger students embrace their learning differences and develop social-emotional skills that promote their academic and personal success, such as confidence, self-advocacy skills, and perseverance.
Operating Entity: University of Southern California
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: California
This program helps train youth with disabilities to be farmers, and helps individuals with developmental disabilities become entrepreneurs of agribusiness. Career training opportunities include farm management, packing shed management, food safety, and alternative production methods such as aquaponics. The program gives graduates discounts on aquaponics or other agricultural systems, to facilitate a career in agriculture.
Operating Entity: Milestone Cooperative
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
FACT provides intensive, community-based treatment, rehabilitation, and support services for adults with severe and persistent mental illness who have not responded well to traditional treatment. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation provides staff liaisons to help serve this group of customers in a comprehensive manner.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides workforce training and education to at-risk population groups, including individuals with disabilities. It helps participants attain careers in targeted industries, including advanced manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, logistics, and energy. Participants receive counseling services, literacy training, job skills training, high school equivalency services, work experience, and more.
Operating Entity: Northeast Mississippi Community College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
GIB employs people who are blind in two locations across the state.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This faith-based, three-year program helps students with intellectual disabilities develop independence skills and receive specific vocational training leading to employment in a college-like environment. It includes hands-on training in one of the following areas: Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Horticulture.
Operating Entity: Green Oaks School
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This group home living opportunity enables adults to participate in local employment programs and workshops. Services also include trainings on self-advocacy, social integration, community access, and other topics.
Operating Entity: In-Pact
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program supports transition-aged youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in achieving a fulfilling and self-empowered adult life. HEELS Prep provides career exploration, self-management, social participation, independent living and safety programs. HEELS UP is an abridged inclusive postsecondary education program. The HEELS Bridge program bridges the transition to higher education. The program is a collaboration between the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, TEACCH Autism Program, Kidpower International, and other University of North Carolina and community partners.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps individuals with intellectual disabilities develop, strengthen, and maintain daily living and work skills through seven Transitional Service Centers. Employment Trainers work with clients to help them achieve their employment goals.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Health, Division of Services for People with Intellectual Disability (DSPID) Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a range of services to residents at the Access Center for Independent Living, including around advocacy leadership, youth transition, independent living, and employment preparation. It also offers peer support groups.
Operating Entity: Access to Independence Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
HELP-Link is a free workforce program for Montanans covered by Medicaid, which connects Medicaid enrollees with high quality workforce training, employment services and job openings in local communities. Services include assistance with resumes, cover letters, job applications, interview skills, and more.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Labor and Industry
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
The North Dakota Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind co-sponsor an annual summer program for students who are blind or visually impaired and who are currently in grades 9-12. It focuses on lessons regarding college and employment readiness, including higher education access and employment skills such as interviewing and job research.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program offers two types of employment services to individuals with disabilities. The first is Employment Assistance, which helps people find competitive, integrated employment. The second is Supported Employment which helps people maintain their current employment.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
The Arkansas Department of Human Services has five human development centers throughout Arkansas for individuals with severe developmental disabilities. The Centers provide vocational training, work experience, and job opportunities, among other services.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Department of Human Services, Arkansas Division of Developmental Disabilities Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program is a work-readiness camp and post-secondary transition program for students ages 15 to 21 who are deaf or hard of hearing. Students engage in four weeks of paid work experience and learn how to find and secure long-term employment and about the skills and technology that might help them in the pursuit.
Operating Entity: Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program matches students with disabilities to workplace mentors according to their expressed career interests. Students experience a typical day on the job and learn how to prepare to enter the world of work.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program includes six inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities on college campuses across Tennessee. These non-degree programs enable students to take college courses, have internships and jobs, and build relationships with their peers, with the goal of developing employment and independent living skills and experiencing a variety of potential work environments.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This commercial cleaning service is operated by Easterseals New Hampshire and employs veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals without disabilities who provide quality floor care and custodial services to businesses throughout New Hampshire.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Hampshire
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Alpha One
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: LIFE (Living Independence for Everyone) of Mississippi
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program helps people who are both deaf and developmentally disabled to enhance their self-sufficiency through pre-vocational and day habilitation activities.
Operating Entity: Deaf Reach
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program helps individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities access and maintain employment in the community. Participants receive assistance on employment planning, job coaching, and problem solving.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Behavioral Health
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program helps people with severe mental illness find competitive community employment and provides ongoing, individualized services with a focus on employment. Services include personalized benefits counseling, ongoing treatment to manage medications, and peer support.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps people with mental health conditions find and keep meaningful work. It is sponsored by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Divisions of Mental Health and Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program places people with severe mental illness in competitive employment, with supportive on-site assistance as needed. IPS is a collaboration between the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (SCDMH) and the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department (SCVRD).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides supported employment services to individuals with mental illness and substance-related disorders, including those with other diagnoses.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Division of Mental Health Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to job applicants with disabilities, including around career preparation, job coaching and general support.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Michigan
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Michigan
Family to Family Network helps individuals with disabilities navigate life as a young person and find success in adulthood. The program also provides support to family members. Services include case management, referrals to community resources, support groups, Pre-Employment Transition Services, and more.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides services and counseling to help people with disabilities obtain competitive employment. Hawai’i Division of Vocational Rehabilitation also connects participants with local employers and work opportunities.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
These trainings help prepare and place people with disabilities into computer-related fields, including customer service and office support, computer-aided drafting, networking and server support, and jobs that require the Microsoft Office suite.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program expands vocational rehabilitation and Pre-Employment Transition services by enabling community college team members to collaborate with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services and provide career readiness and career exploration services to school districts where gaps are identified.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors assist individuals who are blind or visually impaired in developing and refining skills that will enhance their ability to enter and maintain employment. Counseling activities may include assessments to determine a person’s strengths and support needs as related to a job – from technology use to activities of daily living – and then creating a training plan.
Operating Entity: Washington State Department of Services for the Blind (DSB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Washington
JET is a summer learning program for students with disabilities, which provides different work experiences and job readiness classroom instruction. The 2019 program was run in collaboration with the Birmingham Zoo.
Operating Entity: Workshops, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program trains and places individuals with disabilities into jobs, on behalf of the New Mexico Council for Purchasing from Persons With Disabilities.
Operating Entity: Horizons of New Mexico
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This 10-part workshop series teaches students with disabilities the basic skills necessary to be successful in the workplace. Topics include self-discovery, job-readiness, job-seeking, and job-keeping.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This career and technical education program helps prepare students for continuing their education while earning certifications in high-wage career sectors. The program has been expanded to focus on students with disabilities in particular, through the New Skills for Youth grant.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Department of Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program offers intensive assistance to youth transitioning to adulthood to help them access and succeed in employment, education, housing, positive relationships, community connections, and independent living. The program is available to youth ages 16 to 21 who are experiencing significant emotional or behavioral challenges that interfere with their potential. It is a collaboration between the Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Departments of Corrections, Mental Health, and Children and Families.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides workforce services to people living in regions that lack a permanent workforce center, including career counseling, resume assistance, career development workshops, skills training, and more. Centers are ADA compliant and feature computer labs and internet access.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department of Commerce
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides a range of vocational services to individuals with disabilities, including services specifically for transition-age youth. This includes offering Pre-Employment Transition Services, connecting youth with disabilities to employment opportunities, providing career counseling, empowering youth to earn high wage and in-demand jobs, and connecting with in-school services for youth with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department for Children and Families, Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides paid summer employment to blind and visually impaired youth in a residential setting. It requires students to also secure internships in their local community, in order to make connections and expand their summer experience into year-long career exploration.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
LEAP is a summer program designed to help students with disabilities gain the confidence and skills for independent living and employment.
Operating Entity: Texas A&M University, Center on Disability and Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides students aged 16-21 with tools, training and resources to work competitively and forge a path to independence. Services include vocational and career counseling, job search tools, on-the-job and hands-on work experience, assistive technology services and training, school-to-work services, self-advocacy support and training, peer mentoring services, workplace readiness training, benefits counseling, and ongoing resource support.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program offers adults with disabilities or deafness the opportunity to live and work as independently as possible in their communities. Services include skills training in independent living, work readiness, relationship building, self-advocacy, and health.
Operating Entity: Goodwill Northern New England
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
These services assist individuals with significant disabilities with maintaining employment.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with combined hearing and vision loss. Services include supported employment, independent living services, employment connections, transition services, and more.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
MD-YLF is a week-long leadership program open to students with disabilities entering their final two years of high school. Activities take place on a college campus and help students gain leadership skills, plan for their careers, and learn about assistive technology and community supports.
Operating Entity: Independence Now
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides paid work-based learning experience and job readiness training for transition-age youth ages 14-24. The DC Department of Disability Services and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education collaborate with the Department of Employment Services to ensure youth with disabilities are identified early on and have the appropriate supports to be successful in their work experiences.
Operating Entity: DC Department of Employment Services (DOES)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This three-month program provides communication, leadership, and vocational skill building for young adults with disabilities. This includes skill-building workshops on topics such as resume development, interviewing, and formal e-mail communication, as well as off-site group community service projects, site visits to places that employ those with disabilities, and opportunities to network.
Operating Entity: Dreams for Kids
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This initiative will develop 1,024 Youth Registered Apprentices in the state and ensure at least 124 of those apprentices are youth with disabilities. The program is a partnership between the Michigan Department of Education Office of Career and Technical Education, and the Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
MYP serves low-income and at-risk youth (including those with disabilities) by providing hands-on opportunities to apply skills they learn in the classroom and engage in career exploration and counseling, work readiness skills, and financial literacy training. Nearly half of participants have a disability.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Office of Youth Development
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
These Centers provide onsite job services to people with disabilities, and provide additional access to remote job fairs and other employment and training events. The Centers are operated by CareerSource Florida, the statewide workforce policy and investment board consisting of the Department of Economic Opportunity, 24 local workforce development boards, and 100 career centers throughout the state.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps youth with disabilities develop leadership skills, academic and career goals, a strong work ethic, and independence through technology, community support, and peer mentoring.
Operating Entity: Montana Youth Leadership Forum
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This conference provides youth with disabilities the opportunity to network with other youth statewide and gain leadership skills. Youth also receive guidance and support for successful transitions from school to achieve their individual education, employment, recreational, and housing goals.
Operating Entity: Utah Statewide Independent Living Council
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This one-day program assists high school juniors (including those with disabilities) in identifying their unique strengths and interests and the contributions they will bring to the workplace.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides youth with disabilities with a unique recreational experience that prepares them for school, work, and life inclusion. Participants learn about their disabilities, understand the importance of communication and listening skills, explore and share their talents and strengths, understand accommodations in the school and workplace, learn about independent living, and learn about the services necessary for job seeking and secondary education.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides vocational rehabilitation (VR) services to immigrants and refugees with disabilities. The New Americans team consists of a lead rehabilitation counselor and two community liaison representatives.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps individuals who are blind obtain skills for increased self-confidence, empowerment, and employment. The program instructs participants in Braille and alternative communication formats, business practices, computers and assistive technology, mobility competencies, personal and home management, and more.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program certifies disadvantaged youth (including those referred by a rehabilitation agency) for work, then provides counselors to connect youth to opportunities at participating businesses.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Labor, Career Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program works with state agency departments to target and increase paid on the job training (OJT) limited term employment (LTE) internship opportunities for job seekers with disabilities. It also helps interns develop valuable experiences and references to prepare them to compete for LTE or permanent state agency positions.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps students with disabilities engage in paid work experience and develop work readiness skills before exiting secondary education. It is a collaborative effort between local school districts and Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides services to transition-age youth with disabilities to support their employment or career-related postsecondary education or training goals. It services include individualized planning, academic and vocational instruction, instruction in independent living, career development services, and connection to paid employment opportunities. It is a collaboration between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Oregon Department of Education, and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This in-depth residential training program provides people who are blind or visually impaired with training and assistance on how to adapt to employment opportunities, utilize adaptive devices, explore career options, and develop various other career preparatory skills. Clients can also learn specific trades, such as woodworking.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
These programs assist individuals with disabilities in obtaining employment. Specific programs include the Adults Vocational Program, which provides job readiness trainings, job placement assistance, and other resources, as well as Vocational Evaluation Services, which provide a comprehensive assessment of a person’s vocational aptitudes.
Operating Entity: Easterseals of Alabama
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program utilizes a variety of services to help youth with barriers to employment (including youth with disabilities) in the Denver Metro Area succeed through career exploration, education, training and support services. Services focus on transition to post-secondary education, career exploration, job readiness, and training services.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This pre-vocational program seeks to empower individuals with developmental disabilities by providing them with tools to expand their vocational skills through opportunities set in a supervised environment.
Operating Entity: PEAK Community Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program enables students to participate in one week of non-paid job readiness training to prepare for work, followed by a part-time paid experience for five weeks. On-the-job worksite trainers provide support to students as needed.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps low-income teens and young adults with disabilities in Delaware prepare for work, find jobs, and succeed in the workplace. Services include career exploration and assessment, supported employment, benefits counseling, financial counseling, and assistive technology assistance.
Operating Entity: Delaware Health and Social Services (DHSS), Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities (DSAAPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides classes and mentoring to help people with developmental disabilities share information and skills to attain employment. It is a collaboration between the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) and the Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition (OSAC).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides an array of integrated rehabilitation, treatment, and support services to help people with serious mental illness manage their illness and live successfully in their communities, including finding and keeping a job.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This statewide project assists young adults with developmental disabilities and their families in charting a life course for adulthood. The program offers a variety of resources including informational sessions, webinars, and resource guides/materials related to postsecondary education, employment, and self-direction. The program also runs monthly student and parent clubs and coordinates various transition events throughout the year.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
PERT is a school-to-work transition initiative that includes various assessments, as well as a Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) Career Day, a Transition Academy, and a Manufacturing Academy.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center (WWRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This three-semester program enables students with disabilities to take classes at Delgado Community College related to specific apprenticeship areas, participate in career development activities, learn community and work skills, and gain employment experience through two 10-week paid internships or apprenticeships. It is a collaboration between the Louisiana State University Human Development Center, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, Delgado Community College, public school systems, and employers in the New Orleans metro area.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
The Postsecondary Supports Project is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
PREP is a nine-week introductory program designed to provide clients with introductory exposure to soft skills relating to securing employment, interpersonal interactions, and independent living.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center (WWRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Mississippi
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program offers workshops and daily activities on a farm, as well as community activities, to help clients build life skills and form meaningful relationships in the community. Clients take part in service learning, farmer’s market sales, and extensive recreational activities.
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides comprehensive job training and other job-related services for individuals with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities. It focuses on providing careers in gardening and lawn care, janitorial services, automotive maintenance, and carpentry. It also prepares participants with job seeking skills, such as completing job applications, creating resumes, mock interviews, job fairs, and more.
Operating Entity: REM Mississippi
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
Progressive employment consists of short-term placement opportunities that allow individuals to try out a new work scenario, build valuable skills, and demonstrate their capabilities to employers. Work placement opportunities can include everything from an informational interview and company tour to job shadowing and short-term placements.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
Project CASE is designed to increase the numbers of individuals with disabilities who are working in fields like Manufacturing, Healthcare, Information Technology, and Culinary Arts. The program provides direct services to help individuals access necessary training and post-secondary educational opportunities, and uses Career Pathway Coordinators to reach employers who can provide work experiences such as job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships and job placement in these fields.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This supported employment program connects people with disabilities to integrated employment opportunities in their community. Job Developers work closely with program participants to determine interests and aptitude, and connect them with appropriate employers. Job Coaching staff train participants in on-the-job skills and provide ongoing support.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides intensive, direct support for youth with disabilities in New York City who are transitioning into adult life. Participants create and implement a practical plan designed to lead to job training, employment, higher education, or other community engagement.
Operating Entity: includeNYC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arizona
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
Project Skills is a paid work experience program for high school students with disabilities. It provides participants the opportunity to learn different skills in a variety of job placements with the assistance of a job coach. It focuses on improving participants’ work history, references, and future job opportunities.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program trains young adults ages 16-24 who are not attending school and who meet certain criteria (including having a disability) to develop skills and competencies demanded by the healthcare industry. The program includes 180 hours of training, leading to certificates and credentials. It is a WIOA Youth Program conducted in collaboration between the West Mid-Alabama Community Development Corporation, Shelton State Community College, and several county offices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides social and economic rehabilitation for people with various disabilities through remunerated work opportunities in nonprofit workshops.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of the Family
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
RAMP is a career-focused mentoring program for youth with disabilities who are currently involved with or are at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. RAMP supports successful life transitions to employment, continued learning opportunities, and independent living through a variety of mentoring approaches.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
Nebraska VR provides financial support and consultation for five regional Transition Youth Conferences for students, aged 16-21, hosted at local community college sites. The conferences focus on employment, post-secondary educational opportunities, self-advocacy, utilizing community supports, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program offers rehabilitation services including vocational evaluation, situational assessments, training, and job readiness classes to prepare individuals with disabilities for employment. Clients have opportunities to engage with business through internships, externships, job tours, job shadowing, and mentoring. Services are offered at seventeen Community Tennessee Rehabilitation Centers (CTRCs) across the state.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This eight-week course helps individuals with disabilities build job skills for the retail industry, through an average of 10 hours of paid training per week. This includes hands-on work experience, employment readiness training, job placement assistance, and instruction on various topics.
Operating Entity: Goodwill/Easterseals Minnesota (GESMN)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This residential campus provides opportunities for any student, particularly those with disabilities, to learn life skills and work towards professional certifications with the final goal of employment.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides an introduction to entrepreneurship and small business concepts to students with disabilities. Students work through setting a goal, developing a business plan, and putting the plan into action.
Operating Entity: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alaska
STEPS is a resource center where young adults (ages 18-25) can receive mental health support. The program promotes self-advocacy, and offers opportunities for vocational, educational and social development.
Operating Entity: Wayside Youth & Family Support Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
STRIVE U is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Southern Maine Community College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides direct and indirect services to help youth with disabilities transition from school to work and obtain successful employment.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Hampshire
SWAP is designed to provide employment-related assistance to students and young adults with disabilities. The program teaches job seeking and job retention skills, and operates in all of Colorado’s local education agencies through collaborative agreements among the Colorado Department of Education, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and local school districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps prepare students with special needs for post-graduation employment. Transition students explore career opportunities through job sampling at a variety of local businesses, which gives them real-life experience to better understand and participate in the world of work.
Operating Entity: The Arc Union County
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides an opportunity for individuals with disabilities and their families to meet with staff about concerns and participation in higher education, training, employment, or independent living.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps individuals with disabilities become self-employed, including by helping them develop business plans, cash flow projections, and personal budgets.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides technical and financial assistance to help individuals with disabilities achieve self-sufficiency by starting, expanding, or purchasing a business. It is available to clients of Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS) and Iowa Department for the Blind (IDB).
Operating Entity: Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Iowa
These services help people with disabilities develop and pursue self-employment opportunities, in the form of one-on-one assistance to evaluate business ideas, identify opportunities, develop business plans, and understand funding alternatives.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Wisconsin
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides vocational development, placement, and job retention services, primarily in conjunction with 10 Community Services Boards and Behavioral Health Authorities located throughout the Commonwealth.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program includes transition services for high school students who are blind or visually impaired; career counseling; summer transition programs; and vocational and college training.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides employment services to people who are blind or visually impaired. The program focuses on independent living skills, orientation and mobility training, adaptive technology training, and vocational training opportunities.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services, Visual Impairment Services Unit
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides specialized vocational rehabilitation and related services for people who are blind. Services include job maintenance support, job placement assistance, literacy programs, blindness education programs for service providers, transition services for youth, and more.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Services include vocational counseling and guidance, career assessments, job placement and training, and more.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program allows individuals with disabilities to work and receive training in a controlled environment with other people with disabilities. Workers are paid in accordance with individual production and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Services include assessment, training, and transitional services leading to community job placement if the individual chooses.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Service Division (DDSD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program helps students learn communication skills and workplace behaviors (e.g., around attitude, work ethic, image and appearance, interpersonal skills, teamwork, time management, and accountability) needed to obtain and maintain successful competitive employment. It is provided to students and local educational agencies (LEAs) by a certified trainer from a Community Rehabilitation Program.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides job-readiness opportunities for students with disabilities who are unable to earn a state high school diploma, to ensure they have evidence of employability skills, and to honor their work in school.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Special Education Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This week-long program helps prepare high school students who are blind or visually impaired for careers or postsecondary education. Participants stay in dormitories at Augustana University and participate in a variety of activities that promote vocational learning, career exploration, social skills, self-advocacy, and independence.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides vocational services for high school students, through two Vocational Rehabilitation Services staff members assigned to every high school, as well as through Pre-Employment Transition Services. Services include assessment, vocational evaluation, training, rehabilitation counseling, assistive technology, job placement, and post-employment assistance.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program supports students with disabilities ages 16-21 in exploring and preparing for the world of work. Services are based on a consumer’s interests, and include job exploration and counseling on post-secondary options.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
STEP helps high school students who are blind or visually impaired explore various career paths and learn essential job skills, as a first step toward gaining viable employment.
Operating Entity: Bosma Enterprises
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides services to help at-risk students with disabilities transition out of high school. Services include career assessments, independent living skills, internship development, benefits planning, interview and soft skill training, and more.
Operating Entity: Granite State
Independent
Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This vocational program helps young adults with mental health challenges find and maintain competitive employment. Services include vocational assessments, one-on-one job coaching, peer support, vocational skills groups, access to social activities, and more.
Operating Entity: South Shore Mental Health
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program is offered to students who are blind or visually impaired and includes three tracks. SAVVY World of Work provides career exploration activities, paid internships with job coaching, interviewing skills training, and counseling opportunities. SAVVY Youth in Transition provides classroom training and field trips to help students develop confidence, greater independence, life skills, social skills, and vocational and study skills. The SAVVY College Prep program provides training in college survival skills such as independent study habits and use of assistive technology.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This week-long program provides college-life experiences for middle school students, high school students and graduates, including those with disabilities. Activities include dorm tours, college-level writing workshop, group activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Kennesaw State University, Academy for Inclusive Learning and Social Growth
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides youth who are blind or visually impaired with meaningful work experience and career exploration, while reinforcing their adjustment to blindness. The curriculum includes orientation and mobility training, vocational evaluation, braille training, and more.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides students with visual impairment with independent living experiences, skills training, and career exploration activities, including two- to four-week work experiences. Activities include recording elevator pitches for employers, engaging in mock interviews, developing a resume, and completing a technology evaluation. The program is housed at St. Thomas University.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Education, Special Education Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides hands-on lessons to help people with disabilities develop and improve their independent living skills. Topics include time management, financial management, self-advocacy, dining etiquette, bullying, note taking, problem solving, social skills, and interviewing techniques.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
SWEP is a six-week “paid work experience program” targeted toward youth who are deaf and/or blind, and which includes job readiness skills training.
Operating Entity: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, E.H. Gentry Program
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
SWEP includes a five-week foundational program and a six-week more advanced program each summer in which youth who are blind or visually impaired engage in paid employment experiences and live in residences to develop skills in independent living and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This four-week program provides students with disabilities the tools and experience to gain and maintain employment after high school. It includes work-based learning, research into career clusters and pathways, assistance with resume writing, and training around interviews, soft skills, and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Access Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides work experiences and an instructional component to expose students with disabilities, ages 14 to 21, to career pathways and workplace expectations.
Operating Entity: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alaska
Supported Employment helps individuals with the most significant disabilities succeed in competitive employment through ongoing support services. These services are collaboratively planned and funded with various other agencies, including the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides intensive on-the-job supports and extended services to help individuals with the most significant disabilities work in competitive integrated work settings. Individual placement with supports (IPS) services are a supported employment model used for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.
Operating Entity: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Missouri
This program helps individuals with severe mental illness secure and remain in competitive and fully-integrated employment opportunities. The program integrates individual choice of employment with integrated mental health treatment, personalized benefits planning, and continuous follow-along work supports.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Addictive and Mental Disorders Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
Supported Employment provides training and ongoing support to help individuals with the most significant disabilities maintain employment.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program helps individuals with the most significant disabilities find, learn, and keep a job, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, serious mental illness, acquired brain injury and other significant disabilities. The Office of Rehabilitation partners with Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRP), the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD) and the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH) to assist individuals in their employment goals.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps individuals with developmental disabilities find and keep employment. Employment specialists help clients find a job that matches their needs and interests; identify the need for training, and work with employers to provide it; adapt the work site; and design the supports needed to do a job. The program provides support for as long as it is needed.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
This program is aimed at finding competitive work in a community integrated work setting for persons with severe disabilities who need ongoing support services to learn and perform the work. Support is usually provided by a job coach who meets regularly with the individual on the job to help him or her learn the skills and behaviors to operate independently. As the individual gains mastery of the job, the support services are gradually phased out.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program partners with more than 150 area employers to place individuals with serious mental illnesses and substance use conditions in jobs of their choice to create economic independence and further their recovery.
Operating Entity: Threshold
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides employment and education services to individuals with a mental health diagnosis, including career planning, job search assistance, job placement, on- and off-the-job coaching, and career advancement services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program helps individuals with the most severe disabilities find and maintain fully integrated employment. The program provides workplace training at job sites and ongoing support.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides training opportunities to help individuals with disabilities find competitive employment. Employment preparedness training covers training and skill development; understanding the workday, breaks, and use of sick/vacation days; feedback on job performance; pay for work completed while learning skills; and training for catering, baking and food preparation services, custodial and maintenance services, clerical, data entry, and pre-sort mail services.
Operating Entity: LifeScape
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program offers structured work experiences and related services to youth receiving Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) benefits. In 2019, 18% of participants had a disability. This project is a partnership between the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), and the Minnesota Association of Workforce Boards (MAWB).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides academic, career, and financial counseling to its participants from disadvantaged backgrounds (including students with disabilities) and encourages them to graduate from high school and continue on to and complete their postsecondary education. It is implemented at various colleges and universities across the state and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program includes a series of workshops to help youth adults with disabilities gain exposure to technology, engineering, and math concepts in a comfortable, inclusive, and hands-on setting. Topics include coding video games, websites, 3D printing, and robotics.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides an opportunity for youth and caregivers to discuss goals and explore options for the future, including around specialized healthcare needs, career interests, training and goals, social services and expectations, linkages to community agencies, and independent living. It also allows for coordination and information-sharing between youth-focused and adult-focused rehabilitation programs.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Children’s Rehabilitation Service (CRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program enables students with disabilities to choose and engage in areas of study that all have an emphasis on work-based learning and community integration through volunteer, practicum, and internship opportunities with business and industry. Upon completion of all courses, students receive a certificate of completion and have the opportunity to obtain national certifications and licenses that are industry-recognized, portable, and/or stackable.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a viable option for people with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities to obtain internships, on-the-job coaching, and career guidance with the State of California that can turn into long-term employment.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program helps students with disabilities develop employment and independent living skills. Students receive consultation on their post-graduation transition plans and have an opportunity to work in the Indian River Eagle Company, which is an on-site silk screening and embroidery shop.
Operating Entity: Howard T. Ennis School
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides paid, temporary work opportunities for individuals with disabilities at Children’s Hospital Boston. The program’s focus is on helping participants develop work skills and behaviors that will enhance their vocational success.
Operating Entity: University of Massachusetts Boston, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a variety of skill-building and educational services to prepare people with disabilities for the workforce. This includes job preparedness instruction, job readiness training, job tryouts, internships, and on-the-job training. It also includes Job Driven Vocational Training, which trains individuals based on specific business needs in local communities.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides training and employment for individuals who are blind or visually impaired to facilitate their full independence. Jobs and training through MIB are primarily in the manufacturing sector, although MIB also provides employees for the service sector (such as call centers).
Operating Entity: Mississippi Industries for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides assistance to young adults in the areas of vocational training, independent living, and post-secondary education to help them develop the skills needed to obtain and maintain competitive integrated employment. Services include job exploration; counseling; work-based learning experiences; workplace readiness training; post-secondary training; self-advocacy instruction; job placement; independent living skills; and follow-up and monitoring. TAP is a partnership between the Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS) and Community School Districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
Transition Camps are 3-5 day cross-state conferences that provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) through presentations by businesses, postsecondary education institutions, and vocational training providers to help students develop a vision for their future. The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Alaska Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program enables high school students with disabilities to participate in job exploration activities, as well as fiscal management activities as a component of independent living training. It is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, local school systems, and local businesses.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides enhanced, coordinated vocational services including Department of Rehabilitation Student Services and employment preparation to assist with job development, and short-term support services to successfully transition students with disabilities into meaningful employment. TPPs are established between the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program is designed to help 16-21 year old’s who are blind or visually impaired prepare for employment and independent living. Participants stay at American University, participate in internships in the District, and attend trainings.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This two-year comprehensive transition program provides young people with physical disabilities, ages 18-22, with instruction and opportunities to make a successful transition to adult life. Students learn vocational skills, empowerment / self-advocacy skills, mobility skills using public transportation resources, and more.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Roosevelt (ICRE-R)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program connects students who are blind or visually impaired to transition specialists, who provide information on transition processes and post-high school training, education, and independent living options; assist in preparation for employment; assist in securing appropriate work experience through the Project Skills Program; and provide technical assistance, consultation, and training to students, parents, local school districts, and service providers. It is a joint effort between the South Dakota School for the Blind and the Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program supports young adults with mental health challenges across a range of issues, including attaining employment. Peer mentors offer their firsthand experiences of living with and overcoming mental health issues to support and assist the young adults they are teamed up with on their road to recovery.
Operating Entity: Aspire Health Alliance
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program connects high school students with disabilities to potential employment opportunities. Vocational counselors assist students with resume writing, job applications, career preparation, educational preparation, and more.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program works with youth in transitioning from high school to post-secondary life, which includes college or employment. The program provides the necessary resources and life skills to gain independence.
Operating Entity: Atlantis Community Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program offers a variety of transition services for youth with disabilities as they prepare for life beyond high school, including career exploration and counseling, workplace readiness training, job shadowing, and work based learning experiences. The Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation also collaborates with school districts to provide comprehensive vocational rehabilitation services to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps youth with IEPs transition from high school to post-secondary life by teaching basic life skills and preparing students to navigate college life, handle finances, navigate legal concerns, and search for employment.
Operating Entity: Prairie Independent Living Resource Center (PILR)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides comprehensive transition services for special needs students, to equip them for transitioning successfully into adulthood. Services include experiences to prepare participants for life in the community and workforce, activities and experiences to help students develop career goals and plan for post-secondary life, and more.
Operating Entity: Autism Center of Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
The Washoe County School District offers multiple transition services for high school students with disabilities. Students can receive elective credits for employment experience or authorized volunteer or community service. Additionally, the Community Based Vocational Exploration and Training Program provides non-paid vocational training placements for students with disabilities. The program also provides transition technical assistance and professional development to teachers and staff to meet the post-secondary goals of students transitioning to adult life after high school
Operating Entity: Washoe County School District, Transition Services Department
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps students with disabilities move from school to post-secondary activities and independent living, including through Pre-Employment Transition Services, work-based learning experiences, and career fairs. Services are coordinated with Local Educational Agencies, the Department of Labor and Human Resources, the Department of Education, and Puerto Rico Industries for the Blind.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (PRVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program assists youth with significant disabilities in transitioning to post-secondary life. Services include trainings around self-determination, job preparedness, IEP rights and responsibilities, and independent living.
Operating Entity: Northern West Virginia Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for employment and life after high school. Services include vocational counseling and guidance, assessment and evaluation, school work study, work adjustment training, on-the-job training, supported employment, and job development and placement.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program includes eighteen short-term programs that provide career exploration, job readiness, and work-based learning opportunities to students with disabilities. Topics include self-advocacy, independent living, workplace readiness, job exploration, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
New York has 28 college programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Programs offer peer mentoring, job training, and academic and employment experiences.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides pre-employment services to students with disabilities, including job exploration counseling, work readiness training, and paid internship opportunities.
Operating Entity: University of Southern Mississippi, Institute for Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program assists youth with disabilities in their transitions to post-school life through services related to job preparedness, independent living, and IEPs.
Operating Entity: Appalachian Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: Hannahville Indian Community
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides high school students with significant disabilities, ages 18 to 22, with opportunities to continue their transition and learning in integrated, age-appropriate environments with typical peers. CTP includes Advanced Community Training, which includes volunteering, working, interacting with the public; Project FOCUS (Focusing Opportunities with Community and University Support), where students enroll part-time at the University of Arizona; and Project SEARCH High School Transition Program-JTED, located at University of Arizona.
Operating Entity: Tucson Unified School District
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Arizona
This program enables students with disabilities to participate in STEM-related activities in University of Hawai’i-Manoa laboratories, hear presentations by working STEM Professionals, earn UH-Manoa credit in natural sciences and high school credit, and cultivate an interest in STEM careers.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Manoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
This paid internship focuses on disability advocacy and leadership and will include self-study, seminars, experiential learning, and position-shadowing opportunities. Preference is given to adults with disabilities and their parents and family members, with the goal of enhancing trainee’s skills and knowledge regarding intellectual and developmental disabilities history, philosophy and practice.
Operating Entity: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Munroe-Meyer Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Nebraska
This intensive, eight-week job training program helps individuals with developmental disabilities (14+ years of age) navigate the transition into adult life. Students participate in life-skills based courses, job fairs, job site tours, benefits counseling, mentoring with employed peers, and complete 40 hours of paid work in customized internships within local nonprofits and businesses
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program assists students in finding employment and job shadowing opportunities, taking skills assessments, and preparing job applications.
Operating Entity: PQC Trains
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program oversees and provides support to the Randolph-Sheppard Program of Virginia, which helps individuals who are legally blind operate vending or cafeteria services within a federally-owned, funded, or leased facilities.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
VIP is a pre-employment transition service that helps high school students ages 16-21 with developmental disabilities discover opportunities available after high school; learn what is expected of an employee; develop skills to gain competitive employment; and advocate for their rights. It is conducted in partnership with Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: ACCESS Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides a range of services to help people with disabilities overcome employment obstacles. It includes job readiness training, job placement, supported employment, job coaching, and Pre-Employment Transition Services.
Operating Entity: UpLIFTD
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program assists individuals who are blind or visually impaired achieve and maintain employment, through vocational training, job placement, orientation and mobility training, career counseling, and more.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Blind Services (DBS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps individuals who are blind or visually impaired become more employable and ultimately obtain employment. Services include vocational evaluation, counseling and guidance, career exploration, training, job placement, supported employment services, post-employment services, high school transitional services, college counseling/support, assistive technology services, computer training, and more.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides employment assistance services for individuals with physical or mental disabilities.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program helps individuals with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. It offers individualized services including vocational counseling, benefits counseling, job search assistance, school-to-work transition services, skills training and career education in college and/or vocational schools, on-the-job training, assistive technology services and training, vehicle and home modification, and supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This one-stop career program offers individuals with disabilities a range of services to help them develop the skills and attitudes needed to develop a lifetime career. Services include work evaluation and job readiness services; assessment for and provision of assistive technology; job counseling services; and medical and therapeutic services.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides job counseling, on-the-job training, transportation assistance, employment accommodations, and more to individuals with disabilities who live on or near the White Earth Reservation. Individuals who work at least 20 hours per week or who are full-time students are eligible for these services.
Operating Entity: White Earth Nation, Division of Human Services
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides employment assistance services to individuals with disabilities, including a skills assessment, personalized employment counseling with a personalized employment plan, agency referral services, and connections to job opportunities.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps individuals with disabilities choose, prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. It involves personalized employment counseling and creating an employment plan, the provision of assistive technology, vocational training, housing and vehicle modification, and post-employment services.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program helps individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals, including through job exploration, job search services, assistive technology, and career advancement support.
Operating Entity: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides services to help individuals with disabilities find or keep a job. The program offers career exploration activities; information about skills and training; assistance acquiring tools, uniforms or basic equipment needed to start a job; and job coaching.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides vocational counseling, job search skill development, supported employment, assistive technology evaluations, and more to individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals. The program also includes services specifically for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and English learners.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program helps individuals who are blind, deaf-blind, and visually impaired reach their employment goals. Services range from adjustment to blindness to job placement assistance to assistive technology training.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides vocational and rehabilitative services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired to help them prepare for, secure, and retain employment. Services include vocational and adjustment counseling; post-secondary school or vocational training; adaptive equipment for training and/or employment; customized and supported employment services; and job placement and follow-up services.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides employment support to students ages 14 to 21, transition services to youth, and vocational rehabilitation services for all students who are legally blind, including those with additional disabilities. Opportunities include summer work experiences, job coaching, and mobility and orientation training.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Children and Family Services, New York State Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program provides a range of vocational services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, including job training, job placement, career counseling, supported employment, on-the-job training, and assistance with interviewing and resume writing. It also includes a six-week Summer Work Program to help youth develop work skills and prepare for entry into the workforce.
Operating Entity: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, Community Outreach Program for the Deaf
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program assist people with disabilities in achieving sustainable competitive integrated employment, maximizing independence, and gaining self-respect. Services include vocational evaluation, customized training, driver education, and an Academic and Lifeskills Program.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Carl D. Perkins Vocational Training Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program offers a wide range of employment services for individuals with disabilities, including community-based assessments, internships, job placement, and job coaching.
Operating Entity: Skills Incorporated
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides job skills training for students with disabilities, leading to jobs or apprenticeships. Courses include driver’s education, automotive technology, certified nursing assistant, construction, culinary arts, and welding.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, Arkansas Career Development Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
The Joseph Kohn Training Center offers people who are blind and visually impaired an opportunity to learn independent life skills, including skills to attend college or seek employment. The program includes a career assessment and vocational counseling component.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
WAGES is a six-week work-based learning experience program held annually for blind and visually impaired youth ages 16 to 21. Participants live on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and engage in work opportunities, professional skills training, self-advocacy activities, transportation practice, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
WVU Country Roads is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: West Virginia University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
Welfare cooperative programs are established with select local Human Services Agencies (HSA) and the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR). The programs serve recipients of human service agency services, who are also DOR consumers with significant disabilities, and assists them in obtaining meaningful employment. Services include work adjustment, employment services such as employment preparation, job development, and short-term supports.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This week-long forum teaches high school students with disabilities about leadership, self-advocacy skills, and career awareness.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Wisconsin
WAP provides paid work, work adjustment, and supportive habilitation services typically in a sheltered workshop setting. The program helps clients develop good work safety practices, money management skills, and appropriate work habits. It also includes social skill and community resource training necessary to achieve vocational objectives.
Operating Entity: California Department of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program is designed to connect individuals with developmental disabilities to experience working in public or private sector jobs that are non-stereotypic for people with disabilities. The program covers wages, worker’s compensation, and taxes for individuals who participate, and it includes a microenterprise (or self-employment) option for individuals who want to operate their own businesses.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities Supports Division (DDSD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides direct support to young adults with disabilities to help them develop the skills to get, learn and keep a job. It also helps clients develop the linkages to community providers, and supports the businesses who host them and the paraprofessionals who support them so they can become independent and successful in their jobs. It is a collaboration between the Iowa University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities at the Center for Disabilities and Development (UCEDD/CDD) and the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This two-part program helps individuals with disabilities who have little or no work experience, or who have been out of the workforce for an extended period of time, develop skills needed to be successful in the workplace. The first six-week course helps individuals prepare for employment through videos, lectures, worksite tours, and job shadowing experiences, while the second program includes real-world work experience at community worksites.
Operating Entity: Maryland Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides paid pre-employment experience for students with disabilities ages 15-21 through the creation of artistic products for professional businesses and non-profits.
Operating Entity: Idaho Parents Unlimited
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides enhanced, coordinated vocational services to help individuals with disabilities who are both community college students and Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) consumers obtain meaningful employment. Services include internships, employment preparation and job development services, and short-term supports. It is a partnership between select California Community Colleges and DOR.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program provides one-on-one, customized employment support services to individuals with disabilities who are interested in finding and maintaining paid work or starting their own business. It helps people enhance their economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, and participation in the community. Services include customized employment, supported employment, direct placement, and job coaching.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Southern California
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This program provides employment assistance to individuals with disabilities, provides reasonable accommodations to job-seekers, and provides workstations that contain assistive technology in over 20 WorkOne Centers in the state.
Operating Entity: Indiana Department of Workforce Development
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides employment services to individuals with disabilities, including identifying necessary job skills and connecting clients to other supports like assistive technology and accessible transportation.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program encourages and empowers individuals ages 5-30 living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through education and employment in the skilled trades industry. Services are provided through a variety of introductory workshops and hands-on educational programs.
Operating Entity: Teaching the Autism Community Trades (TACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
Workshops for Youth is a program for individuals with disabilities ages 14-26 in a 12-county region in South-Central California. Workshops address topics like understanding and engaging in the IEP process, staying organized, creating a plan for the future, developing financial literacy skills, and preparing for interviews.
Operating Entity: EPU Children’s Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
YEP is a job-readiness program that addresses barriers to employment for youth with disabilities. Program includes courses on financial literacy and career readiness, job shadow days, mentoring from leaders in the business community, and more.
Operating Entity: Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
The YAT Program provides students and youth with disabilities training, opportunities, and services to achieve competitive integrated employment. It specifically connects students with internship opportunities, in which students earn work experience and develop independent living skills. It is a partnership between school districts, the Division of Rehabilitation Services, and ADVANCE.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides services to help young adults (17.5 to 25 years old) who experience complex behavioral health challenges develop the skills they need for successful transition into adulthood. Services include supported education and employment services.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health Authority, Child and Family Behavioral Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
These services are designed to alleviate behavioral and emotional challenges and are provided in a non-residential setting. Services include vocational services, social work services, counseling, and more, and are offered at a variety of non-residential settings across the state.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides special services to youth with barriers to education and employment – including youth with disabilities – to assist them in pursuing their educational and vocational goals. Services include peer advising, referrals to supportive services, education and career coaching, employment preparation and assistance, workshops, and more.
Operating Entity: California Employment Development Department (EDD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
YESS helps transition-age youth ages 16 to 25 successfully transition into adulthood by strengthening their skills and increasing their stability in housing, employment, education, and community living. The program is available in Utah County for those experiencing early psychosis. The program includes a large youth empowerment component, and provides training, mentoring, public speaking, and other opportunities for growth.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This intensive four-week summer program provides culturally and linguistically diverse youth and young adults with disabilities ages 16-21 with pre-employment skills and college exploration opportunities. Participants learn skills such as résumé building and budgeting, practice mock interviews, learn about on-the-job etiquette, and learn how to ask for accommodations. Participants also take hands-on field trips to job sites or local college programs.
Operating Entity: Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
YLF is a five-day intensive leadership program that helps high school juniors and seniors with disabilities develop leadership and self-advocacy skills. Students engage in activities related to self-esteem and team building, career choice, independent living, assistive technology, and various other empowering activities.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
YLF is a leadership-training program for high school students with disabilities. Students participate in a series of online leadership training, role playing, mentoring, job preparation, and career exploration activities to build social and communication skills.
Operating Entity: Florida Association of Centers for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
YLF offers students with disabilities the opportunity to spend a week on a college campus with other students from Oklahoma. Students participate in activities to help improve leadership and advocacy skills, explore career options, meet with state legislators, and create a leadership plan to reach employment and educational goals.
Operating Entity: Developmental Disabilities Council of Oklahoma
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program ensures that inmates have an appointment with a Vocational Rehabilitation counselor within a week of community re-entry. It is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, the Special Education Division of the Alabama Department of Education, and the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a number of services to help youth with disabilities transition into work. This includes a “Work Smart” Pre-Employment Training Program; a High School Transitional Youth Program, which provides high school students with job training at Goodwill Easterseals retail stores; educational and occupational services for at-risk youth or those who have dropped out of school; the Learning Disabilities Program, which helps ease the transition from high school to college for students with learning disabilities; and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals of Alabama
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a variety of supports to youth with disabilities ages 14 to 24, including in-school workshops on Self-Advocacy, youth support groups, and a Youth Transitions Program.
Operating Entity: The Independence Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps youth with disabilities build self-esteem, learn teamwork, gain communication and leadership skills, prepare for employment, and achieve independence. Services include Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS), group transition services, and individualized transition services. The Vocational Rehabilitation Department collaborates with the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice to provide service to adjudicated youth.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
OSCIL provides assistance to help 11th and 12th grade students with disabilities successfully enter the post- high school world. Services include trainings on independent living, self-advocacy, job skills, interviewing, and financial management, as well as peer support and advocacy, job shadowing, transportation assistance, and college visits.
Operating Entity: Ocean State Center for Independent Living (OSCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides a wide range of services to support teens with special circumstances (such as learning or physical disabilities) in their transitions from youth to young adulthood.
Operating Entity: Alabama Parent Education Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This skill-building program helps prepare students with disabilities, ages 14 to 21, for their transitions to adulthood. Instruction focuses on building self-confidence, practicing effective communication skills, identifying appropriate career interests, encouraging successful decision-making, setting goals, learning how to take responsibility, and more.
Operating Entity: The Center for Independent Living Options (CILO)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program includes peer-to-peer young adult leadership groups and forums, transition services delivered in partnership with schools, as well as professional development opportunities for educators and service providers.
Operating Entity: Able South Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program helps prepare high school youth with disabilities for adulthood through community access/integration and employment and job training services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Maine
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program assists youth with disabilities ages 14-24 in transitioning to post-secondary education and/or employment. Services include referrals to vocational rehabilitation services, employment and education assistance, independent living skills training, self-advocacy training, and peer mentorship.
Operating Entity: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This program helps youth with disabilities access employment, education, and support services necessary to succeed in the labor market. This includes assessments to determine skills and abilities, assistance with college or trade school education, on-the-job training, and help retaining employment (such as through assistive technology and job coaching). The program also collaborates with school districts to assist in transition planning.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides individualized career pathway services to assist students and youth with disabilities, aged 15-25, in their transitions from high school to post-secondary education and employment. Services are provided in coordination with education, workforce center, and other adults service agency partners.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps prepare youth with disabilities for their transitions to work and adulthood. It includes a youth transitions program and a Peer Support Group for young adults ages 18 to 24.
Operating Entity: Walton Options
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) to high school students who have disabilities, including through self-advocacy workshops, work-based learning experiences, college tours, and more. It is a collaboration between the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, the state’s independent living centers, and South Carolina’s public school system.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
ACAP is a fully-integrated, comprehensive system of care for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder to help them (among other things) help them achieve their employment goals. Support include physical health, behavioral health, social, recreational, transportation, employment, therapeutic, educational, crisis, in-home, and independent living services.
Operating Entity: Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Bureau of Supports for Autism and Special Populations
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps individuals with disabilities, including substance use disorders, find employment with the assistance of a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides services to help individuals who are visually impaired achieve meaningful employment, mental and physical restoration, and personal independence. Services include vocational guidance and counseling, job search preparation, and assistance with job retention.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
The Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation provides individuals with disabilities a variety of vocational services such as counseling, training, job placement, educational guidance, interpreters, transportation services, and occupational tools and equipment.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Treasury
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Virginia529 / Virginia College Savings Plan
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Economic Security
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program helps individuals with disabilities start or resume driving, as a way to maintain their independence. It evaluates peoples’ visual, physical, and cognitive skills and make recommendations for adaptive driving equipment, further training, and teaching strategies.
Operating Entity: Alpha One
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This interagency initiative helps adjudicated youth with disabilities make a seamless transition from Bureau of Juvenile Justice training schools to productive roles in their communities. It is a collaboration between the Department of Human Services Bureau of Juvenile Justice (BJJ) and the Department of Labor and Economic Growth Rehabilitation Services (MRS).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program helps individuals with mental illness find jobs that pay competitive wages in an integrated setting. Services are provided by local mental health and behavioral health authorities across the state.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides advocacy services on an individual level and a systems level for individuals who are deaf and who face communication barriers in employment, government, legal, and business settings.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides low-interest loans to individuals with disabilities for the purchase of assistive technology devices and services. This includes mini-loans, larger loans, and loans for telework.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
Maine’s five Area Agencies on Aging serve as “one-stop-shops” to answer questions from older adults, individuals with disabilities, and their care partners about a range of in-home, community-based, and institutional services. The program can help individuals access employment training, connect to educational opportunities, and receive information and referrals.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
Through this program, educational coaches and peer mentors assist participants with intellectual disabilities in each stage of post-secondary education. This involves assistance with enrolling in and funding college, pursuing appropriate and necessary on-campus services and resources, and transitioning from college to gainful employment.
Operating Entity: Northern Arizona University, Institute for Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Arizona
The North Dakota School for the Deaf provides assistance for students transitioning from high school, including around assistive technology, career exploration, and transition supports unique for people with hearing loss.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, North Dakota School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program helps blind and vision impaired New Jersey residents acquire assistive technology that is necessary to gain or retain employment. Technological Services Specialists perform technology assessments and skill evaluations and make recommendations suitable for each consumer’s unique situation.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
ATLFA provides affordable financing alternatives (loans with below-market interest rates, no down payments, longer repayment terms, etc.) to help make adaptive equipment a possibility for individuals with disabilities who might not otherwise be eligible for borrowing.
Operating Entity: Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority (ATLFA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Alabama Statewide Technology Access and Response for Alabamians with Disabilities (STAR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Northern Arizona University, Arizona Technology Access Program (AzTAP)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Arizona
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Colorado Denver
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Colorado
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology (FAAST)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawai’i (ATRC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Idaho, Center on Disabilities and Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Idaho
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Crossroads
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Kentucky Assistive Technology Services (KATS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), MassMATCH
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Maine Department of Education, Maine CITE (Consumer Information and Technology Training Exchange)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Administration, System of Technology to Achieve Results (STAR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services, Project START
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Assistive Technology Partnership (ATP)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Jersey (DRNJ), The Richard West Assistive Technology Advocacy Center (ATAC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Nevada
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: The Ohio State University, Assistive Technology of Ohio
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Ohio
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Access Technologies Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Puerto Rico, Assistive Technology Advisory Council of Puerto Rico (PRATP)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of South Carolina, Center for Disability Resources
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Tennessee Technology Access Program (TTAP)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Utah State University, Center for Persons with Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Utah
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Vermont Assistive Technology Program (VATP)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Wisconsin’s Assistive Technology Program (WisTech)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: University of Wyoming, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND), Wyoming Assistive Technology Resources (WATR)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program helps consumers who are visually impaired or blind use assistive technology. It includes assistive technology and computer training classes and helps employees experiencing vision loss to continue doing their jobs.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides assessment, consultation, and training to assist individuals with disabilities in accessing learning and employment through the use of technology. The program also enables consumers to purchase donated and refurbished adaptive equipment at a reduced price and/or to borrow adaptive equipment for short-term loans.
Operating Entity: Spurwink ALLTECH
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
MDRS provides consultation services to help connect individuals with assistive technology (AT) for work. This includes performing evaluations and assessments for assistive technology needs, setting up AT equipment, providing follow-up evaluations, designing and fabricating original items, and providing specifications and final inspections for AT services.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides evaluation and training in use of assistive technology devices to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Devices range from “low tech” devices such as Braille watches or magnifiers to “high tech” devices such as magnification and speech output computer programs or handheld electronic magnification devices.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides individuals with disabilities assistive technology to overcome independent living and community integration barriers. The program involves a consultation to discuss independent living goals, followed by assistive technology training and provision.
Operating Entity: CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program assists low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and social workers with applying for various social supports, including Medicaid, SNAP, Home and Community Based (HCB) and Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Waivers.
Operating Entity: DC Department of Aging and Community Living
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services (IVRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Iowa
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Maryland Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides free benefits planning for individuals with developmental disabilities to help them understand the impact of work on their various benefits (including cash, medical, housing, personal care services, and food benefits).
Operating Entity: The Arc of Washington State
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program helps individuals with disabilities understand the impact that their salary will have on the disability benefits they receive.
Operating Entity: Caribbean Center of Work Incentives Planning Assistance (CWIPA)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
The program helps individuals with visual impairment, who wish to drive and are legally able to do so according to Kentucky statute, to be trained and issued licenses.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Division of Blind Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program offers vocational rehabilitation and independent living services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. This includes vocational guidance and career counseling, assistive technology services, job placement, and transportation.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program sends Transition Counselors to high schools to work with students who are blind or visually impaired. Counselors describe transition programs and initiate arrangements for students to participate in these programs.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: California State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
The Career Pathways Connections program provides opportunities for individuals with hearing loss to enter the workforce and obtain sustainable employment. The program is run by staff that are proficient in American Sign Language, experienced in identifying workplace accommodations, trained in assistive technologies, and knowledgeable in resources for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program evaluates and supports people in the following areas of assistive technology: positioning and mobility; computer access; augmentative communication; environmental controls; driver evaluation; vehicle modification; devices for activities of daily living; devices for visual and/or auditory impairment; and home and work modifications. The Learning Technology Program assesses student’s needs in the classroom and trains them in the use of assistive technology, as needed.
Operating Entity: Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Hiram G. Andrews Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: State of Alabama Client Assistance Program
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Arizona Center for Disability Law
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: University Legal Services (ULS)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Florida (DRF)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Disability Rights Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: DisAbility Rights Idaho
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Indiana Disability Rights
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Maine (DRM)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Society for Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Client Assistance Program (CAP)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Office of the Governor, Ombudsman for the Disabled
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Department of Administration
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Law and Advocacy Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Vermont Legal Aid, Disability Law Project
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Protection and Advocacy System, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides numerous services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in Arizona. These services include tutoring, counseling services, case management assistance, advocacy services, self-improvement classes, independent living skills training, and more.
Operating Entity: Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Higher Education, CollegeInvest
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
Colorado Workforce Centers serve job seekers, including individuals with disabilities, through career counseling, training, and computer and internet access. Colorado Workforce Centers cater to individuals with disabilities by maintaining a “No Wrong Door” policy and an integrated system so that if a client needs additional services and assistance, the workforce center can provide accurate and timely information.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
CTP provides communications resources and tools, such as amplified and captioned phones, smartphones and tablets, as well as ring signalers and neck loops or head sets and specialized equipment at no charge to qualified deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind. The program is designed to give people access to the community at large.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides trainings and information sessions to underserved populations, parent groups, and other agencies and organizations who want to learn more about transitioning from high school to the work force and also about employment rights for people with disabilities (including the full scope of vocational services that may be available to them).
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program supports individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing who are experiencing mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders and other issues to ensure that their needs for living in the community are met. Services include counseling, coordination of medical and mental health treatment, budgeting and money management, and housing placement.
Operating Entity: Deaf Reach
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides deaf students with independent living skill training and work experience, and trains them on employability skills.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Oregon School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This program helps individuals with disabilities receiving Social Security Disability Benefits to better understand the impact that returning to work will have on their disability benefits.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides job development assistance, coaching, resume workshops, mock interviews, and English classes to help individuals with disabilities who either have a language barrier or speak English as a second language attain employment.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
CEP assists people with disabilities who need to work part-time in finding and maintaining work. Participants work in various positions, from janitorial and administrative to quality-assurance and production, and receive in-depth training, job coaching, access to a benefits specialist, and ongoing support.
Operating Entity: Skills Incorporated
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program includes information, referral, and advocacy services for Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Late-Deafened citizens of Maine.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing & Late Deafened (DDHHLD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
To maintain independent living status, SMILE provides individuals with disabilities varied services based on individualized needs. These services include individual and systems advocacy, service referral, independent living skills, peer counseling, transition services (including transition from high school), and more.
Operating Entity: Services Maximizing Independent Living and Empowerment (SMILE)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides services to consumers who are deafblind and/or legally blind with cognitive issues. Services include vocational, prevocational, and social day programs, as well as assistance accessing adaptive equipment, low vision aides, flex funding, and more.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB), Deaf Blind Extended Supports (DBES) Unit
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides services and assistance to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. These services include assistive technology training, financial training, transportation assistance, peer counseling and advocacy services, and employment education services.
Operating Entity: Ocean State Center for Independent Living (OSCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
CCD provides support and communication services to deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind individuals. Services include independent living skills training, peer support, advocacy, interpreting/communication services, walk-in office hours, and public videophone access.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. This includes vocational counseling and guidance; vocational evaluation to determine skills, abilities, and potential to work; vocational training; purchase of hearing aids and appropriate communications devices; interpreter services for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining employment; job placement assistance; and rehabilitation technology services.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides vocational rehabilitation and independent living services specifically for people who are deaf or hard of hearing across the state.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program helps individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deafblind get ready for work, find a job or keep a job. Services include vocational counseling, training, help with assistive technology, resources related to hearing loss, and job placement.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides assessment, support, and guidance to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in problem identification and resolution in the areas of personal adaptation including interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, community participation, independence, work, and psycho-social challenges.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program assists individuals with disabilities to acquire income, health insurance, and other basic needs to stabilize their lives, health and living situations. It includes Comprehensive Work Incentives & Benefits Counseling and Disability Webinar Trainings.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program is designed to increase employment and self-sufficiency for social security beneficiaries and individuals with disabilities, by helping them understand how earnings may affect their benefits; transforming the culture of how CareerSource Centers serve customers with disabilities; and facilitating linkages to the employer community so individuals with disabilities may access programs and services. Services are provided through Disability Program Navigators.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program works with project partners to increase career planning, work pathways, job opportunities and employment outcomes for transition age youth with disabilities in Orange County. It provides resources and toolkits around higher education, financial literacy, and career paths.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Southern California
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This course helps individuals who are blind with college preparation. Trainings focus on both community college and university options, while highlighting assistive technology training, tutoring, orientation and mobility, and navigating the college system and college support services.
Operating Entity: Foundation for Blind Children
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides advice on financial assistance and work incentives for individuals with disabilities who are working or seeking work. The Benefits Advisory System was developed through a collaborative effort between seven New York State agencies to create a single approach to the coordination of employment supports, and to provide all New Yorkers – regardless of their disability – with a single point of access for all employment-related services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program connects individuals with disabilities (primarily those with intellectual and developmental disabilities) with employment opportunities in Hawai’i by examining job seekers’ strengths, interests, and skills.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides a range of vocational services to individuals with developmental disabilities, including assistance with developing job skills, writing a resume, completing job applications, interviewing, and getting to work.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program works to safeguard the rights of people with disabilities in a range of work environments, including assisting Social Security beneficiaries in removing barriers to employment, ensuring that employers do not discriminate because of a person’s disability, assisting employees in obtaining reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and helping people get necessary services from the state’s Vocational Rehabilitation program.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program offers Supported Employment and Prevocational Services to assist people with developmental disabilities in finding paid competitive jobs in the community (including internships). Services include job coaching, travel training, assistance with technological aids, counseling, and job placement.
Operating Entity: New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program provides services to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities become employed and live independently. It follows an integrated, home and community-based services program, aligning incentives toward promoting and supporting integrated, competitive employment and independent living.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Division of TennCare
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program advances financial capability for people with disabilities through broad engagement and education, one-on-one financial counseling, outreach and tools, and specialized benefits support services. It is a collaboration between the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Citigroup, and the National Disability Institute.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Nebraska State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and the Nebraska Department of Education’s Special Education division offer enhanced transitions services for students with disabilities, including around benefits planning in relation to career choices, communicating disability-related work support and accommodation needs, and finding and requesting support or accommodations in education, training, and employment settings.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides vocational, psychological, transitional, and driver education services to assist individuals with disabilities in living and working independently.
Operating Entity: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Education, Rehabilitation Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Illinois
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This financial empowerment program helps individuals with disabilities improve their financial well-being through confidential one-on-one financial coaching and certified SSI/SSDI benefit counseling. It is a partnership between ServiceSource Delaware and Stand By Me.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides consultation services on financial planning to individuals with disabilities. Staff review a person’s current situation and use the tools, resources, government benefits, and work incentives available to help them create greater financial independence and achieve the best employment outcome.
Operating Entity: Granite State
Independent
Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program helps individuals on the Autism spectrum or with other developmental disabilities develop work skills, social connections, and advocacy skills, and identify work opportunities.
Operating Entity: Independent Living Resource Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Oregon Treasurer’s Office
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides assistance for individuals with disabilities seeking home modifications to enable said individual to seek competitive integrated employment. Home modifications are provided free of cost, and include widened doorways, ramps, bathroom modifications, and other functional modifications to meet individualized needs.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program offers support and services for Mississippi residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities or autism spectrum disorder. Eligible participants receive day service supports, pre-vocational support to explore job opportunities, supported employment services, and supported living services.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
INDATA is an assistive technology program that includes information and referral, funding assistance, public awareness and education, device demonstration, device loan, reutilized computers, and equipment reutilization.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Crossroads, Easterseals Crossroads
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Office of the Illinois State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Ocean State Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program helps legally blind individuals develop independent living skills. Program counselors provide orientation and mobility training, Rehabilitation Teaching, Children’s Services, and Vocational Rehabilitation services. Other areas of instruction include financial management and independent travel skills.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides independent living supports and trainings to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including personal management skills training (for example, around managing money) and mobility instruction.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This program helps individuals with disabilities develop a variety of independent living skills, such as using assistive technology, navigating transportation, transitioning from school, managing money, and searching for work.
Operating Entity: Appalachian Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides support to individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities with one-to-one services tailored to their needs in acquiring and maintaining daily living skills (including employment skills).
Operating Entity: Easter Seals UCP North Carolina & Virginia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
Family to Family Network helps individuals with disabilities navigate life as a young person and find success in adulthood. The program also provides support to family members. Services include case management, referrals to community resources, support groups, Pre-Employment Transition Services, and more.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) secure jobs, focusing beyond the typical jobs in which a person with IDD might be placed and working to find jobs that match a job seeker’s interests and talents.
Operating Entity: Best Buddies in New Mexico
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program serves clients with high levels of social, mental, or behavioral health needs following discharge from juvenile justice facilities. Transition Coordinators work with clients to develop transition plans, which cover areas like housing, behavioral and mental health, education, employment or vocational training, and life skills.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department, Juvenile Justice Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides need-based scholarships to undergraduate, degree-seeking students with disabilities attending state universities in Florida.
Operating Entity: Johnson Scholarship Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides multiple services to Kansas residents who are deaf or hard of hearing, including interpreter services, legal advocacy services, referral to job finding services, training with assistive technology, and more.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department for Children and Families, Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Kentucky State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
Iowa Legal Aid assists Iowans seeking legal remedies around a variety of disability topics, including: assistive technology, education and other rights, medical benefits, mental health issues, and Social Security/Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Operating Entity: Iowa Legal Aid
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Iowa
The LEAP Program provides grants to youth and young adults with disabilities to help them transition to adulthood. Funds can be used for a variety of purposes, including business clothing, career exploration or related courses, college tuition, and computers and equipment.
Operating Entity: HSC Healthcare System, Health Services for Children Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides trainings and assistance to help Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities make informed choices about work.
Operating Entity: Louisiana State University, LSU Health Science Center Human Development Center
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
This program helps individuals with disabilities and their families access assistive technology (AT) devices and services. This includes AT demonstrations, consultations, short-term device loans, a high-tech AT Reuse Center, trainings, webinars, a low-interest financial loan program, and one-on-one information and referral.
Operating Entity: Maryland Department of Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maryland
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Comptroller of the State of New York
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
Ohio College2Careers provides academic and employment support to students with disabilities at 15 public colleges and universities in the state. Counselors are located within the disability services offices at colleges and assist students with career exploration and counseling, assistive technology, resume and interview preparation, internships and permanent employment, assistance navigating OhioMeansJobs resources, and connection to an expansive employer partner network.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program provide culturally and linguistically appropriate information about transition to adult services, post-secondary resources and services for culturally and linguistically diverse youth with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families.
Operating Entity: Opening Doors
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This residential program is designed to equip blind persons (especially those who are newly blinded) with the skills needed to become employed. It includes six to nine months of intensive training in Braille, orientation and mobility, assistive technology, personal management, home management, and industrial arts.
Operating Entity: New Mexico Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Mexico
This in-depth residential training program provides people who are blind or visually impaired with training and assistance on how to adapt to employment opportunities, utilize adaptive devices, explore career options, and develop various other career preparatory skills. Clients can also learn specific trades, such as woodworking.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This program assists individuals with disabilities in accessing necessary services and supports, including Disability Benefits, Drug Benefits and Medicare Part D, and SSI Managed Care programs.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides paid job training opportunities for people with disabilities through The Easterseals Lawn & Landscape company. Paid Job Trainees may also seek additional support from the Easterseals onsite Transitions Team, including mental health counseling services and referrals to community services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Central Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This one-on-one matching program pairs parents of youth with disabilities to volunteer parents who offer emotional support, information and referrals to community resources, and more.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Washington State
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program helps low-income teens and young adults with disabilities in Delaware prepare for work, find jobs, and succeed in the workplace. Services include career exploration and assessment, supported employment, benefits counseling, financial counseling, and assistive technology assistance.
Operating Entity: Delaware Health and Social Services (DHSS), Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities (DSAAPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides person-centered planning to individuals with disabilities, through an interactive eight-step process that helps participants develop goals and create an action plan for achieving their goals and increasing their quality of life.
Operating Entity: West Virginia University, Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides an array of integrated rehabilitation, treatment, and support services to help people with serious mental illness manage their illness and live successfully in their communities, including finding and keeping a job.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program enables prospective college students who are blind or visually impaired to demonstrate their level of independence in nine areas, so that counselors and the student can decide if other training or skill building is needed prior to starting college.
Operating Entity: Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Michigan
This service helps youth with disabilities ages 18-24 with career exploration, college or occupational training preparation, resume writing, searching for jobs, paid work experience, transportation, and money management.
Operating Entity: Starbridge
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides numerous services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including assistive technology assessment and training, information and technology certification, orientation and adjustment to blindness, adaptive living skills training, supported education, vocational assessments, ASL training, orientation and mobility training, low vision evaluations, career exploration, and social and leisure skills development.
Operating Entity: Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: University of Alabama, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alabama
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Arizona Center for Disability Law
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: University Legal Services (ULS)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Florida (DRF)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Disability Rights Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: DisAbility Rights Idaho
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Indiana Disability Rights
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, Kentucky Protection and Advocacy
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Maine (DRM)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Disability Law Center (MDLC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Mississippi
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights North Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Office of the Governor, Ombudsman for the Disabled
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights South Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Tennessee
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Vermont, Inc. (DRVT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Protection and Advocacy System, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
At this yearly summer camp, high schoolers who are blind attend training center courses while living off-site in an apartment. The program helps students learn to live on their own, preparing them specifically for a college experience. Students also gain experience working at a job in a career field they are interested in.
Operating Entity: SAAVI Services for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of training and skill building opportunities to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including around orientation and mobility, daily living, communication, counseling and vocational exploration, adjustment, and social skills.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program is designed to optimize employment outcomes of individuals with vision impairments through assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
Nevada Rural Regional Centers provide services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in rural regions. These services include service coordination, supported living, job and day training, family preservation and support, psychological services, and more.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program offers several services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, including: vocational rehabilitation services, counseling and guidance, assistance with training and technology, resources related to hearing loss, information and referral, interpreter resources and guidelines, in-service training, and advocacy.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides rehabilitation services such as counseling and skills training, as well as adaptive aids, to help people with visual loss enter, re-enter, or maintain employment.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program helps individuals who are blind or visually impaired access employment opportunities. Services include assistance with job seeking, assistive technology tools, assistance with job site modification, transition services for high school students, and independent living services.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps youth with disabilities and their parents plan for transition to college or the workforce, gain skills in self-advocacy, and access services after leaving school. Services are provided through Transition Advisors, interactive workshops, and webinars.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program works with individuals who are blind or visually impaired to help them navigate their environments and use technology to improve their independence. Services include help with assistive devices, vision evaluations, rehabilitation teaching to help consumers learn new way of doing daily activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
The South Dakota Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Sioux Falls provides pre-employment transition services during the summer months for transition-age students who are blind or visually impaired. Students receive individualized training through skills of blindness classes and vocational training.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services, South Dakota Division of Service to the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program supports students with disabilities ages 16-21 in exploring and preparing for the world of work. Services are based on a consumer’s interests, and include job exploration and counseling on post-secondary options.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
STRIVE ON is designed to help students who are blind or visually impaired prepare for post-secondary and employment goals, by promoting access and utilization of assistive technology and helping students develop self-advocacy and employability skills.
Operating Entity: Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program is offered to students who are blind or visually impaired and includes three tracks. SAVVY World of Work provides career exploration activities, paid internships with job coaching, interviewing skills training, and counseling opportunities. SAVVY Youth in Transition provides classroom training and field trips to help students develop confidence, greater independence, life skills, social skills, and vocational and study skills. The SAVVY College Prep program provides training in college survival skills such as independent study habits and use of assistive technology.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program focuses on training youth with disabilities ages 16-21 on independent living skills, including budgeting, grocery shopping, and accessing transportation, as well as their options around employment, housing, post-secondary education, and more.
Operating Entity: Independent Living Choices
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides job development, job coaching, and employment path services to people with developmental disabilities through county Community Developmental Disability Programs (CDDPs).
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This program works with special education departments to coordinate services for students who will be graduating high school and need supported living services. Students begin meeting with a case coordinator during their last year in school to transition into post-secondary education, work, and living in the community.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program helps individuals with disabilities prepare for independent living through life skills courses, professional development classes, community activities, prevocational preparation, and weekend activities.
Operating Entity: Lanakila Pacific
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
DODD works with county boards of developmental disabilities to ensure that technology is considered as part of all service and support plans for people with disabilities. Services include Assistive Technology and Remote Support.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program guides individuals with disabilities through the process of applying for a lower interest loan to purchase assistive technology needed for work.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Texas Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides individuals, families, and providers with resources to help build skills that will enhance the employability of individuals with disabilities. The project’s goal is to provide up-to-date access to free and for-fee resources to teach these skills.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Board of Regents, Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program helps blind and visually impaired students achieve greater independence through classes like Cane Travel, Braille Literacy, Computers and Adaptive Technology, Home Management, Wood Shop and Needle Arts. Students master skills through completing course curriculum, and engage in group discussions and activities to help them build confidence, gain new experiences, and integrate into society.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program supports individuals with disabilities who are participating in post-secondary programs or vocational school, technology or trade school, and business school training. Funding can be used for tuition, fees, books, supplies, room and board, assistive technology, interpreting services, and support services, depending on need and financial eligibility.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program matches youth and young adults with mental health challenges (ages 16-22) with the services and supports that best meet their clinical and developmental needs, including around personal stability, community housing, employment, education, and positive family/social relationships.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program helps Spanish-speaking youth with disabilities plan for their transitions.
Operating Entity: Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This two-year comprehensive transition program provides young people with physical disabilities, ages 18-22, with instruction and opportunities to make a successful transition to adult life. Students learn vocational skills, empowerment / self-advocacy skills, mobility skills using public transportation resources, and more.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Roosevelt (ICRE-R)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program works with youth in transitioning from high school to post-secondary life, which includes college or employment. The program provides the necessary resources and life skills to gain independence.
Operating Entity: Atlantis Community Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps youth with IEPs transition from high school to post-secondary life by teaching basic life skills and preparing students to navigate college life, handle finances, navigate legal concerns, and search for employment.
Operating Entity: Prairie Independent Living Resource Center (PILR)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
The Division works with various partners to ensure that individuals approaching the age of 21 have the tools and resources needed to successfully transition from school into adulthood. This includes offering presentations on transitions, supporting transition programs, and more.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program generates recommended “next steps” for successful transitions for youth with disabilities or chronic healthcare needs. The program makes recommendations for future education, health, employment, and independent living opportunities. It focuses on family engagement throughout this process and highlights participants’ strengths in future planning.
Operating Entity: University of South Dakota, Center for Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program is a coordinated state-wide effort which provides transportation services in all 67 Florida counties for those who are eligible (including individuals with disabilities) and have no access to transportation. The program groups riders together for a shared ride service.
Operating Entity: Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides education and training to spread financial awareness and conduct financial literacy training to individuals and families to raise expectations for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities to develop financial assets.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: North Carolina
This intensive, eight-week job training program helps individuals with developmental disabilities (14+ years of age) navigate the transition into adult life. Students participate in life-skills based courses, job fairs, job site tours, benefits counseling, mentoring with employed peers, and complete 40 hours of paid work in customized internships within local nonprofits and businesses
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Vermont State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Vermont
This program helps individuals who are legally blind or visually impaired acquire the training and skills necessary to obtain, retain and advance into competitive integrated employment. Participants receive assistance with assistive technology, vocational counseling, funding for training at post-secondary educational institutions, information and referral services, and pre-employment transition services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program assists individuals with severe visual impairments in finding jobs and/or getting ready to go to work. Program staff also recommend assistive technology to help people perform tasks on the job.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Bureau of Blind Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides job counseling, on-the-job training, transportation assistance, employment accommodations, and more to individuals with disabilities who live on or near the White Earth Reservation. Individuals who work at least 20 hours per week or who are full-time students are eligible for these services.
Operating Entity: White Earth Nation, Division of Human Services
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program offers guidance and counseling to assist consumers who are legally blind find or retain employment. Services include vocational assessments and training, help with assistive technology, and more.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Children and Family Services, New York State Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This program helps individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals, including through job exploration, job search services, assistive technology, and career advancement support.
Operating Entity: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides vocational counseling, job search skill development, supported employment, assistive technology evaluations, and more to individuals with disabilities achieve their employment goals. The program also includes services specifically for deaf and hard of hearing individuals and English learners.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
The Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation provides individuals with disabilities a variety of vocational services such as counseling, training, job placement, educational guidance, interpreters, transportation services, and occupational tools and equipment.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides employment support to students ages 14 to 21, transition services to youth, and vocational rehabilitation services for all students who are legally blind, including those with additional disabilities. Opportunities include summer work experiences, job coaching, and mobility and orientation training.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Children and Family Services, New York State Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This 12-week program helps people who are blind or visually impaired to develop vocational and independent skills.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Wood (ICRE-W)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Wyoming Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program helps farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities attain gainful employment in production agriculture or a related occupation, access appropriate assistive technology needed for work and daily living activities, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
WAP provides paid work, work adjustment, and supportive habilitation services typically in a sheltered workshop setting. The program helps clients develop good work safety practices, money management skills, and appropriate work habits. It also includes social skill and community resource training necessary to achieve vocational objectives.
Operating Entity: California Department of Developmental Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island College, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Ability360
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Infinity Support Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Manoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Montana State University – Billings, Montana Center for Inclusive Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Idaho
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Maine Medical Center, Department of Vocational Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Goodwill-Easterseals Minnesota
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Movimiento para el Alcance de Vida Independiente (MAVI)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Able South Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Maine Medical Center, Department of Vocational Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Employment Resources, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides employment services to individuals with disabilities, including identifying necessary job skills and connecting clients to other supports like assistive technology and accessible transportation.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program helps individuals with disabilities move out of subminimum wage employment and into competitive integrated jobs. Works4Me brings together partnerships across the state as an extension of Ohio’s Employment First partnership to expand community employment opportunities, reduce barriers to competitive integrated employment, and align state policy for individuals with developmental disabilities. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD) is partnering with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD), county boards of developmental disabilities, and service providers, to offer a robust support network.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
State / Territory: Ohio
YEP is a job-readiness program that addresses barriers to employment for youth with disabilities. Program includes courses on financial literacy and career readiness, job shadow days, mentoring from leaders in the business community, and more.
Operating Entity: Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
YESS helps transition-age youth ages 16 to 25 successfully transition into adulthood by strengthening their skills and increasing their stability in housing, employment, education, and community living. The program is available in Utah County for those experiencing early psychosis. The program includes a large youth empowerment component, and provides training, mentoring, public speaking, and other opportunities for growth.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides career education and training services to at-risk youth, including youth with disabilities. Program services include tutoring and school-based services, work experiences, occupational skills training, work-based education, leadership development opportunities, support services, mentoring services, guidance counseling, financial literacy education, entrepreneurial skills training, employment information, and more.
Operating Entity: State of Hawai’i Workforce Development Council
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Oklahoma Parent Center (OPC) provides one-on-one assistance to youth with disabilities, including around available resources, their rights and responsibilities, participating in IEPs, and making decisions.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Parents Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program helps young people with disabilities transition from living at home to living independently, including through instruction in life skills and vocational skills. Topics include budgeting money, goal setting, stress management, time management, and more.
Operating Entity: Center for Independence
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program teaches youth with disabilities skills related to financial planning, finding services in their community, finding and advocating for accessible housing, and talking to family members about wants and needs. It also includes Pre-Employment Transition Services.
Operating Entity: Independent Connection Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program assists youth with disabilities ages 14-24 in transitioning to post-secondary education and/or employment. Services include referrals to vocational rehabilitation services, employment and education assistance, independent living skills training, self-advocacy training, and peer mentorship.
Operating Entity: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This program assists youth with disabilities in exploring career opportunities, locating training programs, and acquiring resources needed for a job (including assistive technology, vehicle modifications, and medical devices). It also includes job coaching services and a Progressive Employment component, where youth engage in hands-on work-based activities in the community, including job tours, interviews, job shadowing, work experiences, and on-the-job training.
Operating Entity: State of Maine Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Maine
This self-determination leadership academy is designed to train individuals with disabilities, their family members, and professionals working with people with disabilities on topics ranging from self-determination to finding and using community supports to employment.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Kentucky
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
BCVDDP provides a range of services to youth with vision impairments and their families, including confidence-building activities, caregiver support and training, training to increase a child’s independence and ability to participate in vocational related activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides transition services to all Kansas School for the Deaf students, including individual and personalized career counseling, beginning when students are in the 7th grade. It also involves working directly with students’ families to best prepare students for work opportunities.
Operating Entity: Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: LINKS Resource Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: African Caribbean American Parents of Children with Disabilities, Inc. (AFCAMP)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Pyramid Community Parent Resource Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Education for Parents of Indian Children with Special Needs (EPICS) Project
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Pervasive Parenting Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Children’s Disabilities Information Coalition
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and the professionals supporting them within the Hudson Valley to better understand and navigate disability systems. Services include resources, training, direct services, and support and guidance on disability related issues and topics, including graduation requirements, IEPs and 504 plans, and transition.
Operating Entity: Westchester Institute for Human Development
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
SF CoP is a group of family members, advocates with disabilities, government leaders, disability advocacy and services professionals, and other interested community members who work together to develop policies, practices and systems that better support families that include a member with an intellectual or developmental disability.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
These conferences provide opportunities for students and adults with disabilities to gain insight into the transition and self-advocacy process. Students participate in workshops led by their peers, which touch on goal setting, self-discovery, student self-advocacy, and planning for the future. Parents are also welcome to attend.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides counseling related to special language, communication, and socioeconomic problems unique to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Focus areas include connections with community resources, educational consultations and post-secondary education preparation, and assistance with developing self-advocacy skills, managing communication barriers, and dealing with challenges related to being deaf or hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides assessment, support, and guidance to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in problem identification and resolution in the areas of personal adaptation including interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, community participation, independence, work, and psycho-social challenges.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program supports individuals with disabilities and their families, including by connecting individuals to vocational, social and educational opportunities. Services are provided at thirteen regional chapters across the state.
Operating Entity: First in Families of North Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program assists children and youth who are blind, vision impaired or deafblind succeed in school and transition into the world of work. Information is also provided to families to assist them in navigating the educational system.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
The Arc Connecticut offers a family education workshop series called “Navigate to Advocate,” which provides families the information they need to advocate for their loved ones with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Workshops include “After the Cap & Gown: How to Plan for the Future for an Adult Child with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities.”
Operating Entity: The Arc Connecticut
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides families of individuals with disabilities with support, resources, and communities. Families are paired with mentors to discuss important issues regarding their family member with disabilities, locate community resources, and receive support at meetings and appointments.
Operating Entity: University of Wyoming, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides emotional and informational support to the families of children with disabilities, including by matching parents with trained “Support Parents”.
Operating Entity: Delaware Family Voices
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides technical assistance to families and service providers of youth who are deaf-blind, birth through 21 years of age, including around secondary transition.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i and Pacific Deaf-Blind Project
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program is designed to build the competence and confidence of young adults with disabilities to access independent living and employment services so they can more successfully transition to adulthood. It also helps family members and professionals improve their capacity to support these young adults with disabilities on their journey. It is a joint effort between the Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
The program works to increase knowledge, skills, and capacity of Indiana educators to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, and to help parents understand the IEP process. The initiative is funded through federal funds distributed by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), and is implemented in collaboration with a range of community partners.
Operating Entity: Indiana State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Indiana
Family to Family Network helps individuals with disabilities navigate life as a young person and find success in adulthood. The program also provides support to family members. Services include case management, referrals to community resources, support groups, Pre-Employment Transition Services, and more.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides information and support to culturally and linguistically diverse families who have children with disabilities in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Harlem. Workshops cover topics like the special education process, transitions, IEPs, and more.
Operating Entity: United We Stand of New York
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program helps parents, educators, vocational rehabilitation counselors, developmental disabilities case workers and providers, and employers assist youth with developmental or intellectual disabilities in their transitions.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Manoa College of Education, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program helps develop leadership skills among parents of children with disabilities and special health care needs. It includes workshops, webinars, experiential learning, coaching, mentoring, and independent study. It is designed to help parents broaden their role within their communities as a resource, support group leader, trainer, advocate, and more.
Operating Entity: The Parents’ Place of Maryland
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
This program helps individuals with disabilities, family members, and community members improve their self-advocacy and leadership skills and learn more about disability issues. Topics include Inclusive Education & Communities, Employment First, Self Determination and Self Advocacy, and Social Security & Work Incentives.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides information, technical assistance, and professional development to families and professionals who provide services to individuals who are deaf-blind, in order to improve their outcomes. Transition is one area of focus for the project.
Operating Entity: University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Montana
This program provides technical assistance to families and services providers of children/young adults with hearing-vision challenges, including around educational transitional services.
Operating Entity: University of Southern Mississippi
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides a range of professional development and technical assistance activities to help families, educators, and community service providers improve the existing educational service systems for children with deafblindness in the state.
Operating Entity: The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Center on Sensory and Complex Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program helps young adults with disabilities and their families access and navigate vocational rehabilitation and other public systems that can help with financial stability, meaningful employment, and post-secondary education. Services include conferences, a newsletter, and other resources. It is a collaboration between Starbridge, the Parent Network of Western New York, and includeNYC.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides training and support to parents and caregivers of children with disabilities, assisting them in planning, advocating, and identifying resources. The program follows a model of collaboration among parents, self-advocates, and professionals.
Operating Entity: Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides technical assistance and training to families and service providers to meet the unique needs of children and youth who are deaf-blind in rural and suburban areas, including supporting youth preparing to transition to postsecondary education and employment.
Operating Entity: The University of Oklahoma, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program provide culturally and linguistically appropriate information about transition to adult services, post-secondary resources and services for culturally and linguistically diverse youth with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families.
Operating Entity: Opening Doors
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
The PACT Project serves Texas parents of children and youth with disabilities ages 0-26. Services include one-on-one consultation on disability rights, webinars on a variety of educational topics, online resources and publications, and more.
Operating Entity: Partners Resource Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program offering groups for parents of children with disabilities to increase their capacity and build their self-advocacy skills.
Operating Entity: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation & Rehabilitation Center
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New York
This program provides a range of services to parents of youth with disabilities, including individual assistance by telephone, help navigating systems (including education systems), trainings on topics like “family/professional partnerships,” and more.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Family Voices, Family to Family Health Information Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Alabama Parent Education Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Raising Special Kids
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Leadership in Disabilities & Achievement of Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Idaho Parents Unlimited
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: IN*SOURCE
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: KY-SPIN
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Federation for Children with Special Needs
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Maine Parent Federation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PTI Nebraska (Parent Training and Information)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Nevada PEP
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Family and Community Together (FACT) Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Apoyo a Padres de Ninos con Impedimentos (APNI)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Family Connection of SC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: TN STEP (Support and Training for Exceptional Parents)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Utah Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Vermont Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Parents Helping Parents of Wyoming
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program offers parent to parent support as a core resource for families with children who have a special health care need, disability, or mental health concern. Through a one-to-one “match,” experienced support parents provide emotional support to families and assist them in finding information and resources.
Operating Entity: The Arc Maryland
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
Partners in Leadership Advocacy is a program to help parents and individuals with developmental disabilities develop as leaders in making positive, long-lasting change for themselves and their communities. Individuals with disabilities learn about self-advocacy and families learn about advocating for their child’s educational and future service needs.
Operating Entity: Sewall Child Development Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
The TxP2P Pathways to Adulthood program assists families in planning for life after high school for their children with disabilities, and provides support, information, and tools for carrying out this plan. Youth with disabilities and their parents/guardians can also call the program office and receive emotional support with issues like decision making around guardianship, applying for SSI, and managing school services.
Operating Entity: Texas Parent to Parent
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This statewide project assists young adults with developmental disabilities and their families in charting a life course for adulthood. The program offers a variety of resources including informational sessions, webinars, and resource guides/materials related to postsecondary education, employment, and self-direction. The program also runs monthly student and parent clubs and coordinates various transition events throughout the year.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program helps Florida school districts and stakeholders increase their ability to provide secondary transition services to students with disabilities and improve student academic success and postsecondary outcomes. It helps educators, parents, students, agency representatives, and other stakeholders by providing capacity-building support to implement secondary transition services, interagency collaboration, transition legislation and policy and student development and outcomes.
Operating Entity: University of South Florida
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides individual assistance, workshops, resources, and more to help youth and young adults with disabilities pursue meaningful careers, live as independently as possible, and enjoy inclusion at work and in the community. Guidance and information is also offered to families, and focuses on transition, employment, the role of vocational rehabilitation counselors, and more.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This project is a model demonstration grant designed to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to live independent, healthy, and fulfilling lives. It uses evidence-based practices to increase knowledge and skills of people with IDD and their families, including around career discovery.
Operating Entity: Virginia Commonwealth University, Partnership for People with Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Virginia
This program uses a peer-to-peer approach to provide support, information, and resources to family members of children and youth with special health needs, including intellectual disabilities.
Operating Entity: University of Puerto Rico, Institute for Developmental Deficiencies (IDD)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides information, training and technical assistance, and support to youth and young adults with disabilities and their families, including transition services to help youth and their families navigate multiple programs and service systems; actively participate in the development of plans for independence; and collaborate with transition professionals. It is a collaborative effort between Parent Centers in nine northeastern states.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
Nevada Rural Regional Centers provide services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in rural regions. These services include service coordination, supported living, job and day training, family preservation and support, psychological services, and more.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program is designed to assist transition-age youth (14-26) with disabilities, their parents, family members, guardians, and advocates to effectively engage in vocational, independent living, and rehabilitative services.
Operating Entity: Missouri Parents Act (MPACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Missouri
This program provides trainings and facilitates interagency collaboration to improve transitions for students with disabilities. This includes technical assistance, parent and school personnel trainings, and facilitation of meetings between secondary transition stakeholders.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program helps youth with disabilities and their parents plan for transition to college or the workforce, gain skills in self-advocacy, and access services after leaving school. Services are provided through Transition Advisors, interactive workshops, and webinars.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program is designed to improve educational achievement and outcomes for children who are deaf-blind, by providing technical assistance and training to service providers and expanding supports to children who are deaf-blind and their families, including during the transition to postsecondary education or employment.
Operating Entity: South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: South Carolina
This clinic assists multicultural families in resolving complex special education challenges. Services are provided in family’s first language, when possible. The program is a collaboration between the Office of Education Ombuds (OEO) and Open Doors for Multicultural Families.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides training and technical assistance on a wide variety of special education topics, to support Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), parents, and students with disabilities. Topics include evaluation, educational placements, parental involvement, transition goals, post-school outcomes, and more.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Special Education Team
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This project seeks to improve the capacity of Puerto Rico to identify, evaluate, place and provide early intervention, transition and related services to the deafblind population. Technical assistance and in-service trainings will be delivered to families and service providers.
Operating Entity: Universidad Ana G. Méndez, School of Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides technical assistance to educators and families members of deaf-blind students, including around transitions.
Operating Entity: California Deafblind Services (CDBS)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This project helps Tennessee’s state and local educational agencies, teachers, related service providers, and families address education, related services, transition, and early intervention needs of children who are deaf-blind (DB) to ensure that these children will graduate from high school ready for college and a career.
Operating Entity: Vanderbilt University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Tennessee
This 5-year project is designed to increase effective family engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse families, with a focus on families of children with disabilities. The project provides strategies, activities, tools and resources for educators and families. It is a collaboration between the PACER Center, the Minnesota Department of Education, and Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program includes numerous trainings for youth with disabilities and their families, including around Self-Advocacy, Person-Centered Planning, and Transitions.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This project provides youth ages 13 to 26 and their parents with support, advocacy, information, and training in order to improve their involvement in their educational planning. This includes trainings to prepare youth to become effective self-advocates and to lead their educational planning.
Operating Entity: Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides training and professional development to families who have children with disabilities, transition-age students with disabilities, teachers, and related service providers who work with transition-age youth. It includes transition information fairs, transition planning activities and workshops, and provides information to families who first language is not English.
Operating Entity: TN STEP (Support and Training for Exceptional Parents)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides trainings and guidance to help youth with disabilities and their parents plan for transition.
Operating Entity: Nevada Parents Encouraging Parents
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program generates recommended “next steps” for successful transitions for youth with disabilities or chronic healthcare needs. The program makes recommendations for future education, health, employment, and independent living opportunities. It focuses on family engagement throughout this process and highlights participants’ strengths in future planning.
Operating Entity: University of South Dakota, Center for Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Dakota
This network was formed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) and NAMI Virginia, to help families with children and youth with mental health needs support one another. Specific programs include trainings on mental health conditions, family support groups, parent leadership training, and parent leadership retreats.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides workshops for youth with disabilities and their families focusing on a range of topics, including Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), self-determination, employment hard and soft skills, and more.
Operating Entity: AccessAbility
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
Youth Advocacy is a statewide project designed to enable youth and young adults with disabilities ages 14 to 22 and their families to participate more effectively with professionals in meeting their vocational, independent living, and rehabilitation needs.
Operating Entity: Family Network on Disabilities (FND)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program assists youth with disabilities and their parents in establishing employment and post-secondary education goals and connecting with employment services and resources.
Operating Entity: Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living (SOCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides culturally and linguistically diverse families of students ages 14-21 with special needs with the information they need to smoothly and effectively make the transition from high school to adult life. The program produces resources guides and provides educational outreach to families on youth transition. Services are provided in the family’s first language, when possible.
Operating Entity: Open Doors for Multicultural Families
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program assists high school students, ages 14-24, in transitioning from high school into community life. Services include individual and family advocacy, technical support to special education teachers, and assistance to students and parents with advocacy in facilitating individualized education plans (IEPs). The program also includes a Youth Summer Program, where youth participate in social activities and life skills classes.
Operating Entity: Ability 1st Utah
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program pairs transition-age youth with disabilities with Transition Consultants who connect youth with transition services and provide advice about entering postsecondary education or the workforce. Transition Consultants also provide transition trainings and advice to teachers and education providers.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Transition Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides technical assistance to support providers in improving employment supports and outcomes for individuals with disabilities. This process helps shift a disability service provider’s focus on sheltered workshops and other non-work programs to services that foster competitive, integrated employment.
Operating Entity: University of Georgia, Institute on Human Development and Disability
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Georgia
This program serves individuals through age 22 who have hearing and vision loss, including assisting youth with their transitions to adulthood. The program also teaches special strategies to educators, parents, and others to best support youth with deaf-blindness.
Operating Entity: Alaska Special Education Service Agency
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
These Centers provide workforce assistance to job seekers and employers. Vocational Rehabilitation counselors are co-located at American Job Centers to encourage clients to register for applicable services available through partner programs. Technologists offer technical assistance to Job Centers on approaches to increasing the accessibility of the centers and partner services.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program seeks to improve transition to adulthood outcomes and academic success for children with significant developmental disabilities and complex communication needs through interdisciplinary practice. The program trains Master’s level personnel from three related services (Speech Language Pathology, Social Work, and Applied Behavior Analysis) to provide services to children transitioning from the public schools to adulthood.
Operating Entity: The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Center for Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
This program assists the New York State Education Department (NYSED) in carrying out its mission of improving the quality, access, and delivery of career and technical education through research-based methods and strategies. It focuses on ensuring equitable access and participation, including for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Successful Practices Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program includes a Masters of Arts in Counseling and Rehabilitation, with a specialization in clinical rehabilitation counseling, as well as a Certificate of Graduate Study in Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
Operating Entity: University of South Carolina, School of Medicine
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Carolina
CODIE is designed to build the capacity of selected school professionals and community action teams to support youth and adults with disabilities in achieving customized employment. This is achieved through systematic training, mentoring, and ongoing technical assistance.
Operating Entity: University of South Florida, Florida Center for Inclusive Communities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Florida
This program helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and the professionals supporting them within the Hudson Valley to better understand and navigate disability systems. Services include resources, training, direct services, and support and guidance on disability related issues and topics, including graduation requirements, IEPs and 504 plans, and transition.
Operating Entity: Westchester Institute for Human Development
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program trains facilitators who will work with youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (including transition teachers, Department of Labor Disability Coordinators, and parents) to help youth identify their core gifts and talents and create a strong link to identified gifts in transition plans.
Operating Entity: Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Idaho
Project CESCC works with Alabama State Department of Education partners to provide professional development focusing on positive behavioral interventions, supports, and transition services for students with disabilities, in order to improve their post-school outcomes.
Operating Entity: Alabama State Department of Education, Special Education Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
The DC Department on Disability Services (DDS) engages in a number of efforts to train people on implementing Customized Employment strategies in their work with people with disabilities. This includes two Customized Employment Communities of Practice, a monthly webinar series, and technical assistance to DDS provider organizations.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides technical assistance, training, and resources to families and service providers of children (birth to 21) with varying levels of both hearing and vision loss. Services are geared toward improving educational outcomes for children of all ages in order to help prepare them for eventual transition into adulthood.
Operating Entity: University of South Dakota, Center for Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Dakota
This 12-credit certificate program enables graduate students and community professionals to learn about policies and services that affect the lives of children, youth, and adults with disabilities, including as it pertains to education, employment, community living, and health. The program is a collaborative effort with the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).
Operating Entity: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration (ICI)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program assists school administrators and teachers in helping students with disabilities explore career paths and future employment opportunities, increase their knowledge and use of community resources, enhance their self-determination skills, and more. The program also assists students in obtaining volunteer and paid employment positions. The program is run in partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools Transition Program.
Operating Entity: The Arc of the District of Columbia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a number of comprehensive trainings and technical assistance opportunities for disability employment service providers. Trainings focus on person centered career planning, assessment strategies, job development and placement, job support, community resources, and systems change and program development.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island College, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program seeks to improve the lives of families of children with disabilities through direct support and education, and to improve the ability of community based organizations to meet the needs of families of children (of any age) with disabilities. Services include webinars on topics like Employment First and self-determination, as well as IEP Coaching. They also include Technical Assistance to organizations serving families of children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: University of Southern California, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: California
This program prepares educators, school administrators, related service providers, school counselors, school social workers, community service providers and vocational rehabilitation counselors to effectively support transitions for youth with disabilities.
Operating Entity: University of Arkansas, College of Education and Health Professions
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides technical assistance to families and service providers of youth who are deaf-blind, birth through 21 years of age, including around secondary transition.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i and Pacific Deaf-Blind Project
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
The IMPCCT Consortium provides training and technical assistance to help institutions of higher education develop inclusive programs consisting of inclusive college course work, career development, self-determination, independent living and pre-employment skills training, and campus inclusion.
Operating Entity: Minot State University, North Dakota Center for People with Disabilities (NDCPD)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program is designed to build the competence and confidence of young adults with disabilities to access independent living and employment services so they can more successfully transition to adulthood. It also helps family members and professionals improve their capacity to support these young adults with disabilities on their journey. It is a joint effort between the Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
The program works to increase knowledge, skills, and capacity of Indiana educators to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, and to help parents understand the IEP process. The initiative is funded through federal funds distributed by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), and is implemented in collaboration with a range of community partners.
Operating Entity: Indiana State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Indiana
This program pays teachers to facilitate after-school activities that introduce students with disabilities to work-readiness soft skills. It is a collaboration with the Special Education division of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development as well as Alaska Job Centers.
Operating Entity: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alaska
The Kansas Deaf-Blind Project program provides services to families, educators, and interveners to support individuals who are deaf-blind. This includes providing assistance related to transition planning. The project is a partnership between the Kansas Department of Education, Kansas School for the Deaf, Kansas School for the Blind, and multiple state and national non-profit organizations.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
Kentucky has nine Special Education Cooperatives across the state that assist local school districts in meeting the needs of its member districts. Services range from technical assistance, trainings, professional development, specialized services, research, and other needs identified by member districts and the Kentucky Department of Education.
Operating Entity: Kentucky Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Early Learning
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides consultation, training, and resources to families and educational teams serving students who are Blind or Visually Impaired and/or Deaf or Hard of Hearing. This includes resources specifically around transition and career planning.
Operating Entity: Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides information, technical assistance, and professional development to families and professionals who provide services to individuals who are deaf-blind, in order to improve their outcomes. Transition is one area of focus for the project.
Operating Entity: University of Montana, Rural Institute on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Montana
This program prepares candidates to become Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors, including serving individuals with mental illness.
Operating Entity: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: District of Columbia
The Clinical Counseling: Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling program prepares vocational rehabilitation service providers to serve rural Kansas. The program prepares students to provide pre-employment, employment, and vocational support services to persons with physical, intellectual, sensory, and mental-emotional disabilities.
Operating Entity: Emporia State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Kansas
This project serves families and educators to help them better support deafblind students, including around topics like transition to adulthood. It is a collaboration between the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), the Metro Educational Cooperative Service Unit (ECSU), and a range of community partners throughout the state.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides technical assistance to families and services providers of children/young adults with hearing-vision challenges, including around educational transitional services.
Operating Entity: University of Southern Mississippi
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides technical assistance to consumers, families, and professionals to help them prepare students who are deaf-blind with through lifelong learning, postsecondary education, and/or employment readiness. It is funded through 2021 by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs.
Operating Entity: The City University of New York, Queens College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New York
This coordinated and cohesive network focuses on enhancing services and supports for students with disabilities from early childhood and school-age education to engagement in post-school opportunities. It includes five Technical Assistance Partnerships and Regional Teams across the state, which provide technical assistance and professional development to families, public schools and districts, and community partners.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
The Oklahoma Family Leadership Network is a group of family advocates working to improve the lives of Oklahomans with disabilities. Family Mentors provide an opportunity for future professionals to learn more about family advocacy and the impact of family professional partnership for advocacy and systems change.
Operating Entity: The University of Oklahoma, The Center for Learning and Leadership
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This annual program convenes regional transition teams from across the state to learn about innovative practices and programs and to develop a plan for how to improve transition in their local areas. It is run by the Oklahoma Transition Council – comprised of 34 members from various agencies and organizations – as well as the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program provides technical assistance to mental health agencies providing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment. It oversees the fidelity of the 37 programs that currently offer IPS services throughout the state, and educates and advises local and state-level policymakers. It is a partnership between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the IPS Employment Center, and Options for Southern Oregon.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This professional development and technical assistance initiative aims to increase the number of students with disabilities who enroll in, participate in, and complete CTE career pathways by bringing together diverse district-based teams together to research, analyze, and determine participation and performance gap root causes for students with disabilities in career pathways. It is a collaboration between the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity and the Delaware Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Social Services, among others.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 southern states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 16 midwestern and western states. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Alabama Parent Education Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Raising Special Kids
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Advocates for Justice and Education (AJE)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Leadership in Disabilities & Achievement of Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Idaho Parents Unlimited
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: IN*SOURCE
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: KY-SPIN
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Federation for Children with Special Needs
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Maine Parent Federation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PACER Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Mississippi Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: PTI Nebraska (Parent Training and Information)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Nevada PEP
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Family and Community Together (FACT) Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Apoyo a Padres de Ninos con Impedimentos (APNI)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Family Connection of SC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: TN STEP (Support and Training for Exceptional Parents)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Utah Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Vermont Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Parents Helping Parents of Wyoming
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides services to school staff, families, and communities to support students with disabilities transitioning into adulthood. Activities include postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living or community participation.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Education, Exceptional Support Branch
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides professional development for employment support providers, including certification opportunities, monthly webinars, and advanced topical training on topics of interest to the field. The program is a collaboration between the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Office of Behavioral Health and Office of Aging and Disability Services), the Maine Department of Labor (Bureau of Rehabilitation Services), and the non-profit Syntiro.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
Project SUCCESS provides research-based resources and professional development (including on the topics of content standards, instructional design, and student outcomes), designed to meet the needs of students with significant intellectual disabilities (including around transitions). Project SUCCESS is a resource center developed and managed by Public Consulting Group (PCG) in collaboration with the Indiana Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides technical assistance to educational teams and families who serve learners with deaf-blindness, including around preparing for transition and maximizing a child’s independent living.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island College, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Ten Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Centers help school districts improve results for students with disabilities. Each Center includes both regional technical assistance specialists (including transition specialists), as well as special education school improvement specialists.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
This accredited Master’s degree program trains students to provide employment services for individuals with disabilities. Jackson State University is a Historically Black University.
Operating Entity: Jackson State University, Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation and Psychometric Services
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides full tuition and stipends to 100 trainees who will go on to serve as rehabilitation counselors, including as counselors for individuals who are deaf or who have mental illness.
Operating Entity: Troy University, College of Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alabama
This program prepares students to become professional counselors to assist persons with all disabilities toward achieving their personal, social, psychological, and vocational independence, and includes specialty courses for working in mental health and other specialized settings.
Operating Entity: Hofstra University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New York
This program enables individuals with disabilities to try out and select assistive devices that will help them maintain or improve independence and home safety. Through the Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, individuals can apply for low-interest loans to finance assistive technologies.
Operating Entity: Easterseals – Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program is designed to assist transition-age youth (14-26) with disabilities, their parents, family members, guardians, and advocates to effectively engage in vocational, independent living, and rehabilitative services.
Operating Entity: Missouri Parents Act (MPACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Missouri
This program facilitates School-to-Work Transition Teams (SWT) in twelve communities throughout New Mexico, supporting local efforts to improve employment outcomes for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and increase school-to-work interagency collaboration.
Operating Entity: University of New Mexico, Center for Development & Disability, Partners for Employment
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New Mexico
This project reviews and provides detailed feedback on secondary transition plans, to help service providers implement best practices. Transition specialists utilize a 20-point rubric to identify strengths and shortcomings of secondary transition plans.
Operating Entity: Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arizona
This program helps students learn communication skills and workplace behaviors (e.g., around attitude, work ethic, image and appearance, interpersonal skills, teamwork, time management, and accountability) needed to obtain and maintain successful competitive employment. It is provided to students and local educational agencies (LEAs) by a certified trainer from a Community Rehabilitation Program.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
These Centers help schools throughout Puerto Rico effectively serve students in special education, including by collaborating with school counselors to provide counseling services to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program is designed to prepare school-based professionals (social workers, school psychologists, educational leaders, school counselors, special education teachers, and general education teachers) to provide transition services to students with disabilities. Courses focus on transition services for youth with disabilities, including legal considerations, family engagement, and best teaching practices.
Operating Entity: University of Arkansas
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program includes a series of community trainings for people with disabilities, family members, and concerned citizens and professionals who are interested in promoting the best outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families in Nebraska. It focuses on leadership and advocacy training regarding systems of services and supports to individuals with disabilities and their families. It is a collaboration between the Munroe-Meyer Institute University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and the State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This group plans statewide trainings to discuss transition and vocational services available to students with disabilities and federal and state regulations related to transition services. It includes representatives from the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Education, and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
S-TEC tracks employment activities and keep providers informed and trained in Tennessee employment policies and practices, in order to increase the employment rate of people served by the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD). The group receives a monthly update from DIDD, Vocational Rehabilitation, TennCare, the TennesseeWorks Partnership, and at least one TN employment provider.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program coordinates Supported Employment Local Leaders meetings in each region of the state to provide a forum for employment support professionals to network, learn, and collaborate.
Operating Entity: University of New Mexico, Center for Development & Disability, Partners for Employment
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides training courses to both new and veteran employment specialists to help them understand and apply best practices in supported employment. Technical Assistance is provided via consultation to support capacity building and systemic growth.
Operating Entity: Rutgers University, The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides trainings for disability employment service providers, including around vocational assessment provision, employment law, job retention, training, and coaching. Participants can earn up to three certifications representing improved skills in disability employment.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island College, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides assistance to all public school districts and educational cooperatives in the state to help them support students who are blind or visually impaired. This includes participating in the student’s transition planning process in collaboration with Arkansas Transition Services and Division of Services for the Blind transition counselors.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Department of Education, Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
NE-PACT provides technical assistance to Parent Centers in Region A (which includes DC), including strategies for reaching underserved families, on-site training and support, an annual conference, program evaluation, and consulting around the nonprofit management process.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence-Parent Assistance and Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides technical assistance to Parent Centers, including strategies for reaching underserved families, on-site training and support, an annual conference, program evaluation, and consulting around the nonprofit management process.
Operating Entity: Region A: Navigating Excellence-Parent Assistance and Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
The Region C PTAC provides technical assistance to parent centers across a 16-state region, which includes Indiana. Strategies include shared professional learning, coaching and mentoring, and collaboration and leadership.
Operating Entity: WI FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This Parent Technical Assistance Center serves Maryland’s federally-funded Parent Centers to enhance their capacity to provide effective services for families of children with special needs, including navigate the special education system and provide you with the information and tools you need to be an informed and active participant in your child’s education
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
The Region C PTAC offers a targeted and intensive TA designed to increase the capacity of parent centers to reach and provide services to parents of children with disabilities and youth with disabilities and to effectively manage their centers. Region C PTAC works with each center and tailor services to meet their unique needs. Strategies used are shared professional learning, coaching and mentoring, and collaboration and leadership.
Operating Entity: Region C Parent Technical Assistance Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
NE-PACT provides technical assistance to Parent Centers in Region A (which includes New Jersey), including strategies for reaching underserved families, on-site training and support, an annual conference, program evaluation, and consulting around the nonprofit management process.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence-Parent Assistance and Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides technical assistance to Parent Centers across fourteen states and territories, including New York. It offers strategies for reaching underserved families, on-site training and support, an annual conference, program evaluation, and consulting around the nonprofit management process.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence-Parent Assistance and Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program provides technical assistance to Parent Centers in Region A, which includes Puerto Rico. Services include strategies for reaching underserved families, on-site training and support, an annual conference, program evaluation, and consulting around the nonprofit management process.
Operating Entity: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides support to Parent Centers in a 12-state region, which includes Texas. Services include information dissemination, boot camps, one-on-one assistance, intensive technical assistance, and more.
Operating Entity: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
DC Rehabilitation Services Administration works with local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide technical training and assistance around the delivery of Pre-Employment Transition Services.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program provides consultation and mentoring to intellectual and developmental disability providers around the state as they transition people with disabilities from sheltered workshops to competitive integrated employment opportunities in the community.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This 5-year project is designed to increase effective family engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse families, with a focus on families of children with disabilities. The project provides strategies, activities, tools and resources for educators and families. It is a collaboration between the PACER Center, the Minnesota Department of Education, and Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
TASC provides training, professional development, technical assistance, information, and support to help local communities build capacity to support youth with disabilities who are transitioning from school to adult life. It is spearheaded by the Center for Disability Resources (CDR) at the University of South Carolina and is comprised of 16 partner entities (including state agencies, school districts, and community organizations).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides training and technical assistance to Employment Service Organizations related to Customized Employment services for individuals with the most significant disabilities. The Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) collaborates with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) and Griffin and Hammis, LLC to provide this support.
Operating Entity: Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides specialized rehabilitation training and technical assistance in Washington and other states, including to state and community-based rehabilitation professionals, organizations and businesses, educators, and schools, as well as people with disabilities and their families.
Operating Entity: University of Washington, Center for Continuing Education in Rehabilitation (CCER)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides training to parents and service providers statewide regarding services and programs for children with disabilities and the legal right to obtain these services. Workshops address issues like transitions, legal standards, special education service options, and more.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This initiative seeks to develop the capacity of transition specialists, including through a two-day Transition Summit that covers transition policies, legislation, and best practice models. It also includes a three-day Transition Specialist Core Training, to provide practical strategies around site development, student career assessment, jobsite and community instructional support, jobsite analysis, and developing student portfolios and resumes. It is a collaboration between the Louisiana State University Human Development Center and the Jefferson Parish Public School System.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides statewide technical assistance and professional development to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and teachers in the area of postsecondary transition planning, to improve post-school outcomes for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Special Education Team
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
TLI provides webinars and learning sessions to build knowledge of effective secondary transition practices for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Colorado Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides funding to school districts and charter schools to support the successful transition from high school for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), including through transportation options, Competitive Integrated Employment Training Programs, post-secondary tuition and supports for students, and transition training for staff members.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Special Education Team
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program provides technical assistance to support the provision of transition services in school, through a number of Transition Network Facilitators. Services include providing consultation, training, and technical assistance around the development and implementation if IEPs, student goals and plans, and secondary transition curricula.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This graduate-level program prepares students to implement effective, research-based transition practices to improve transition outcomes for youth with exceptionalities. The certificate requires 15 credit hours of work over two years, and provides transition service workers for the state of Rhode Island.
Operating Entity: Rhode Island College, Department of Special Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Rhode Island
Universal Access Navigators provide information to WorkSource Oregon staff regarding service delivery for customers with a disability or with multiple barriers to employment. For example, they provide information on assistive technology and accommodations that WSO staff can use to assist employers who will be employing individuals with disabilities. WorkSource Oregon is a statewide partnership with the Oregon Employment Department and state, local, and nonprofit agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) conducts monthly trainings for staff, based on case review results or requests from staff members. Speakers are frequently invited to keep VR staff up-to-date on current trends and processes.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
This program trains 60 professionals and paraprofessionals through a Vocational Evaluation Forensic Certificate (VEFC), so they can better support employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Auburn University, College of Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides supplementary training to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) service providers and job counselors. It focuses on improving participant skills in job development, employer relations, job carving, creating a good job match, and promoting success after placement. The program also provides technical assistance to VR counselors who request it.
Operating Entity: University of South Dakota, Center for Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides direct support to young adults with disabilities to help them develop the skills to get, learn and keep a job. It also helps clients develop the linkages to community providers, and supports the businesses who host them and the paraprofessionals who support them so they can become independent and successful in their jobs. It is a collaboration between the Iowa University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities at the Center for Disabilities and Development (UCEDD/CDD) and the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program provides teachers, school staff, families, students, and others with information about transitioning from school to the adult world.
Operating Entity: South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Intellectual Disability and Related Disability Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program helps deaf and hard of hearing students further their education, gain employment experience, and develop and improve their independent living skills while receiving support from teachers and staff.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education, Ohio School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
ACCE is a two-semester program on the University of Arkansas Little Rock campus that enables students with disabilities to have a college experience while preparing for employment in a competitive field. Academic support, social support, work exploration, and job placement are all components of the program. It is a partnership between Easterseals Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides curriculum modifications and special equipment to enable students with disabilities to participate in state-approved Career and Technical Education (CTE) work-based learning (WBL) programs.
Operating Entity: Minnesota Department of Education, Career and Technical Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Minnesota
Through this program, educational coaches and peer mentors assist participants with intellectual disabilities in each stage of post-secondary education. This involves assistance with enrolling in and funding college, pursuing appropriate and necessary on-campus services and resources, and transitioning from college to gainful employment.
Operating Entity: Northern Arizona University, Institute for Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides students with autism and Asperger syndrome with training in socialization skills and academics. Through a mixture of didactic presentation, demonstration, role-play and discussion, students learn how to do the activities of daily living needed in order to be successful in school and to get a job.
Operating Entity: Tarrant County College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
This program sends Transition Counselors to high schools to work with students who are blind or visually impaired. Counselors describe transition programs and initiate arrangements for students to participate in these programs.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This credential is intended to show a student’s readiness for entry-level employment. It is available to students who receive special education services, and requires them to either pass a nationally-recognized work-readiness assessment, or take two units of Career and Technical Education coursework, complete a career plan, and complete 54+ hours of work-based learning. Students can earn this credential as a supplement to a regular high school diploma or as their only credential.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New York
CCS is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Portland State University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Oregon
The Phoenix Day School for the Deaf provides extensive career and technical education services to its students, including general career-based classes, senior seminars, career exploration, and work experience. It also provides students with the opportunity to attend vocational training in their preferred vocational trade.
Operating Entity: Phoenix Day School for the Deaf (PDSD)
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Arizona
This program trains students who are deaf or hard of hearing to become qualified to enter competitive job markets. It focuses on helping students set and achieve either postsecondary or occupational goals. All students receive national industry certifications upon completing this program.
Operating Entity: Mississippi School for the Deaf
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program is offered at Western Nevada College and Truckee Meadows Community College in conjunction with Nevada Vocational Rehabilitation. It provides career readiness training to students with disabilities over the course of a three-week program, focusing on soft skills, resume writing, and job application best practices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nevada
This summer program helps students prepare to attend post-secondary schooling. It focuses on the unique issues that a blind or visually impaired student may encounter when preparing to attend a trade school, two year college, or university.
Operating Entity: Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program places Vocational Rehabilitation counselors at the Río Piedras and Mayagüez campuses of the University of Puerto Rico to provide services to eligible students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (PRVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program provides transition services to all Kansas School for the Deaf students, including individual and personalized career counseling, beginning when students are in the 7th grade. It also involves working directly with students’ families to best prepare students for work opportunities.
Operating Entity: Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides deaf students with independent living skill training and work experience, and trains them on employability skills.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Oregon School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This program provides counseling on opportunities for enrollment in comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs at institutions of higher learning, as well as information about college applications and admissions, assistance completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and resources that may be used to support individual student success.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program serves high school students with disabilities to promote their movement from school to post-school activities. Services are offered in all 19 public school districts as well as at alternative and private high schools.
Operating Entity: Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Delaware
This program assists school administrators and teachers in helping students with disabilities explore career paths and future employment opportunities, increase their knowledge and use of community resources, enhance their self-determination skills, and more. The program also assists students in obtaining volunteer and paid employment positions. The program is run in partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools Transition Program.
Operating Entity: The Arc of the District of Columbia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This course helps individuals who are blind with college preparation. Trainings focus on both community college and university options, while highlighting assistive technology training, tutoring, orientation and mobility, and navigating the college system and college support services.
Operating Entity: Foundation for Blind Children
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program provides a range of employment training services in a classroom setting, including vocational assessments, benefits planning counseling, job skill development and maintenance, job development and placement, job coaching, pre-vocational training, and employer advocacy and support.
Operating Entity: The Arc in Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
Exceptional Works is a continuum of employment services to help individuals with developmental disabilities find, secure and maintain employment in the community. The program includes work readiness classes; vocational training in computer literacy, culinary arts, janitorial services, retail sales and warehouse operations; a College Classroom Program; paid work experience; and more.
Operating Entity: Exceptional Children’s Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This program supports transition-aged youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in achieving a fulfilling and self-empowered adult life. HEELS Prep provides career exploration, self-management, social participation, independent living and safety programs. HEELS UP is an abridged inclusive postsecondary education program. The HEELS Bridge program bridges the transition to higher education. The program is a collaboration between the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, TEACCH Autism Program, Kidpower International, and other University of North Carolina and community partners.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This eight-week program takes place in high school special education programs in Kansas City and provides students with skills and resources for transitioning from high school to adulthood.
Operating Entity: The Whole Person
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program includes six inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities on college campuses across Tennessee. These non-degree programs enable students to take college courses, have internships and jobs, and build relationships with their peers, with the goal of developing employment and independent living skills and experiencing a variety of potential work environments.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program expands vocational rehabilitation and Pre-Employment Transition services by enabling community college team members to collaborate with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services and provide career readiness and career exploration services to school districts where gaps are identified.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This career and technical education program helps prepare students for continuing their education while earning certifications in high-wage career sectors. The program has been expanded to focus on students with disabilities in particular, through the New Skills for Youth grant.
Operating Entity: Louisiana Department of Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides a range of vocational programs for students (including those with disabilities) in the areas of auto mechanics, carpentry, child care, printing, food service and computer technology. Depending on their needs and goals, students with disabilities may enter the regular vocational program or the Career & Work Readiness program.
Operating Entity: Anchorage School District
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Alaska
Participants who complete Berkshire Hills’ Two-Year Transition Program may matriculate into the LIVE Program which expands on the skills developed in the two-year transition program and provides a more personalized approach aimed at achieving the individual’s specific goals. Services include vocational preparation and placement, supplemented by independent living classes and music enrichment activities.
Operating Entity: Berkshire Hills Music Academy
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program funds partnerships between local school districts and two- and four-year public colleges and universities in Massachusetts, to enable students to enroll in college while also receiving special education services through the school district. Program participants develop their capacities in career-planning, employment, and self-advocacy, including by engaging in paid work and internships.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
These 16 programs assist eligible students (including those with disabilities) in achieving a bachelor-level post-secondary education. All TRIO programs provide retention-based academic and personal services that are designed to prepare participants for subsequent levels of education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This partnership between the Ohio Department of Education and Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities increases the availability of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) counselors for students with disabilities beginning at age 14 to improve post-school outcomes. Forty-three counselors partner with local education agencies to serve students with disabilities throughout the state.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides services to school staff, families, and communities to support students with disabilities transitioning into adulthood. Activities include postsecondary education, vocational education, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living or community participation.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Education, Exceptional Support Branch
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Idaho
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
These programs offer students with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in the social life of a college campus.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
The Postsecondary Supports Project is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: University of Hawai’i, Center on Disability Studies
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Hawaii
The Department of Education offers three courses to better prepare students with disabilities to enter into postsecondary education or training, employment, community involvement, and independent living, with an emphasis on understanding how to navigate postsecondary service systems. The courses are Introduction to Self-Determination, Focus on Adulthood, and Planning for Postsecondary.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program provides numerous services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including assistive technology assessment and training, information and technology certification, orientation and adjustment to blindness, adaptive living skills training, supported education, vocational assessments, ASL training, orientation and mobility training, low vision evaluations, career exploration, and social and leisure skills development.
Operating Entity: Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
SET for Success helps students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan increase their employability skills and develop specific and attainable life goals. Easterseals Arkansas sends representatives directly to Arkansas schools to provide these services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
STRIVE U is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Southern Maine Community College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Maine
This program consists of pilot projects in five Utah school districts to help students with disabilities work toward competitive, integrated employment prior to graduation from high school. Teams work collaboratively to serve students and blend/braid funding so students can access wrap-around services needed to become employed and independent.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program pairs vocational rehabilitation counselors with school districts, parents, and students who are blind or visually impaired to develop a coordinated transition plan detailing the student’s current academic progress, interests, vocational goals, and needs.
Operating Entity: Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
These Centers help schools throughout Puerto Rico effectively serve students in special education, including by collaborating with school counselors to provide counseling services to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program is offered to students who are blind or visually impaired and includes three tracks. SAVVY World of Work provides career exploration activities, paid internships with job coaching, interviewing skills training, and counseling opportunities. SAVVY Youth in Transition provides classroom training and field trips to help students develop confidence, greater independence, life skills, social skills, and vocational and study skills. The SAVVY College Prep program provides training in college survival skills such as independent study habits and use of assistive technology.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Services for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program provides educational supports for students with disabilities who are beginning their first year of college in remedial courses, in order to increase community college attendance and success for those students. The program is a collaboration between the Delaware Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Delaware Technical & Community College.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
The PACT program provides students opportunities to develop and enhance employment, independent living, and functional academic skills. Students have the opportunity to participate on school- and community-based work crews.
Operating Entity: Indian River School District, Howard T. Ennis Educational Services
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Delaware
This program helps individuals with intellectual disabilities access college. It includes transition-based programs, which are developed between school districts and local technical colleges or universities to provide access to college courses, job opportunities, and campus activities for individuals with disabilities. It also includes Adult Learner Options, for individuals who have finished high school and no longer receive transition services from their school district.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program helps students who are blind or visually impaired, age 14 and over, to successfully make the transition from high school to postsecondary education or employment. The student works with a team including a Bureau rehabilitation counselor, the student’s parents, a teacher consultant, a social worker, a special education director, and others to prepare an annual Individualized Education Program (IEP) plan and identify and explore the student’s job interests.
Operating Entity: Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides enhanced, coordinated vocational services including Department of Rehabilitation Student Services and employment preparation to assist with job development, and short-term support services to successfully transition students with disabilities into meaningful employment. TPPs are established between the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program helps deaf and hard of hearing students discover opportunities for employment or education after high school. It provides vocational exploration activities, vocational assessments, work-study and internship opportunities, and self-determination and self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Education, Hawai’i School for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
This program provides vocational rehabilitation services to eligible and potentially eligible high school students with disabilities who are interested in employment after leaving high school. The goal is a smooth, seamless transition from high school to post-high school career development and/or employment.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program helps students with disabilities move from school to post-secondary activities and independent living, including through Pre-Employment Transition Services, work-based learning experiences, and career fairs. Services are coordinated with Local Educational Agencies, the Department of Labor and Human Resources, the Department of Education, and Puerto Rico Industries for the Blind.
Operating Entity: Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Administration (PRVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for employment and life after high school. Services include vocational counseling and guidance, assessment and evaluation, school work study, work adjustment training, on-the-job training, supported employment, and job development and placement.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oklahoma
New York has 28 college programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Programs offer peer mentoring, job training, and academic and employment experiences.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This “college-like” program enables young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to build independent living and vocational skills. Instructors work with participants to establish a baseline of their skill set and work on skills for the future. All of this is done through a curriculum that incorporates music instruction that works on students’ social, cognitive, communication, and physical skills.
Operating Entity: Berkshire Hills Music Academy
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
UAA TAPESTRY is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: University of Alaska Anchorage, Center for Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alaska
This program helps individuals with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. It offers individualized services including vocational counseling, benefits counseling, job search assistance, school-to-work transition services, skills training and career education in college and/or vocational schools, on-the-job training, assistive technology services and training, vehicle and home modification, and supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Connecticut State Department of Aging and Disability Services, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Connecticut
WVU Country Roads is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: West Virginia University
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides Mississippi School for the Blind students (ages 14 and up) with on-campus work opportunities. Students work under the supervision of experienced staff members, and experience a “real world” employment experience, including filling out an application and completing a full interview.
Operating Entity: Mississippi School for the Blind
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program provides enhanced, coordinated vocational services to individuals who are Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) consumers, attending California State University (CSU) or University of California (UC), and desiring employment. Services include internships, employment services such as employment preparation and job development, and short-term supports. The program is a partnership between select California university campuses and DOR.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program brings transition, advocacy, and self-determination information into the schools with a peer to peer education model that reaches youth transitioning out of middle and high school while paying youth with disabilities to teach the curriculum to their peers. The program has been paused due to COVID-19, but materials are being offered remotely.
Operating Entity: Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Nevada
This program provides a variety of supports to youth with disabilities ages 14 to 24, including in-school workshops on Self-Advocacy, youth support groups, and a Youth Transitions Program.
Operating Entity: The Independence Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program includes peer-to-peer young adult leadership groups and forums, transition services delivered in partnership with schools, as well as professional development opportunities for educators and service providers.
Operating Entity: Able South Carolina
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
This program provides Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) to high school students who have disabilities, including through self-advocacy workshops, work-based learning experiences, college tours, and more. It is a collaboration between the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, the state’s independent living centers, and South Carolina’s public school system.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
The 2021 Community Inclusion Project is designed to improve the disability system’s capacity to work together and find creative ways to overcome barriers, in order to better support community inclusion and competitive integrated employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This interagency initiative helps adjudicated youth with disabilities make a seamless transition from Bureau of Juvenile Justice training schools to productive roles in their communities. It is a collaboration between the Department of Human Services Bureau of Juvenile Justice (BJJ) and the Department of Labor and Economic Growth Rehabilitation Services (MRS).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program sends Transition Counselors to high schools to work with students who are blind or visually impaired. Counselors describe transition programs and initiate arrangements for students to participate in these programs.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
This program is designed to ensure that special populations (including students with disabilities) have equal access to career and technical education services and job training. Preparatory services are provided in the middle school or prior to a student’s enrollment in a career and technical education program at high school. These services include recruitment of potential career and technical education students, career guidance, vocational assessment, and monitoring.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Carolina
The CLE Team works to transform current adult day and employment supports away from facility-based services toward a community-minded emphasis and practice. This includes empowering people with disabilities and their families to make informed decisions, promoting interagency collaboration, ensuring access and availability of supports, enhancing the skills and knowledge of service providers and families, and more.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
Core Transition Teams increase capacity of high school special education staff, Agency of Human Services (AHS) staff, and community partners at the local level to develop, provide, and manage an effective transition process for students with disabilities. They also coordinates services between multiple agencies.
Operating Entity: Vermont Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
SF CoP is a group of family members, advocates with disabilities, government leaders, disability advocacy and services professionals, and other interested community members who work together to develop policies, practices and systems that better support families that include a member with an intellectual or developmental disability.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
The Council on Development Disabilities convenes state agencies to discuss transition services for students with disabilities. The goals of the Roundtable are to increase communication across agencies, better support individuals with their employment goals, and increase employment outcomes among people with developmental disabilities across the state.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Tennessee
This interagency agreement establishes a framework for an efficient transition of technology as individuals with disabilities move through the continuum from educational services to employment. The agreement ensures children and youth with disabilities and their families, educators, and employers are informed about the continued use and transfer of assistive technology devices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
IATC is a partnership of state and local government agencies, educators, family members and advocates that work together to improve policies and practices that affect Maryland students with disabilities preparing to transition from high school to adult services, college, employment, and independent living. It meets at least four times a year and regularly creates and reviews an Interagency State Plan for Transitioning Youth with Disabilities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides a range of vocational services to individuals with disabilities, including services specifically for transition-age youth. This includes offering Pre-Employment Transition Services, connecting youth with disabilities to employment opportunities, providing career counseling, empowering youth to earn high wage and in-demand jobs, and connecting with in-school services for youth with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Kansas Department for Children and Families, Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Kansas
MnSIC was formed to develop and implement the system of services for youth who are involved in special education. It brings together seven state agencies (the Minnesota Departments of Education, Employment and Economic Development, Commerce, Corrections, Health, Human Rights, and Human Services) and focuses on issues like coordinating transition services in Minnesota Public Schools.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Minnesota
This program assists individuals from birth to 21 years old who have neurodevelopmental and autism spectrum disorders and who are encountering a problem with transition, are having school system issues, or who are in need of help with coordinating their care. The program translates the child’s diagnosis into a “Life Plan” that supports parents and educational programs.
Operating Entity: West Virginia University, Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: West Virginia
The North Dakota Community of Practice for Transition promotes and improves the scope, opportunity, and quality of opportunities for youth with disabilities to prepare for life and career beyond high school. It works across groups and localities to share information, address issues, learn together, find shared goals and define shared work, and improve practice. The group focuses on developing the community by inviting relevant state agencies, and identifying groups that are involved in transition.
Operating Entity: North Dakota Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: North Dakota
Ohio College2Careers provides academic and employment support to students with disabilities at 15 public colleges and universities in the state. Counselors are located within the disability services offices at colleges and assist students with career exploration and counseling, assistive technology, resume and interview preparation, internships and permanent employment, assistance navigating OhioMeansJobs resources, and connection to an expansive employer partner network.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This annual program convenes regional transition teams from across the state to learn about innovative practices and programs and to develop a plan for how to improve transition in their local areas. It is run by the Oklahoma Transition Council – comprised of 34 members from various agencies and organizations – as well as the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This professional development and technical assistance initiative aims to increase the number of students with disabilities who enroll in, participate in, and complete CTE career pathways by bringing together diverse district-based teams together to research, analyze, and determine participation and performance gap root causes for students with disabilities in career pathways. It is a collaboration between the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity and the Delaware Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Social Services, among others.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program establishes, implements, and evaluates a multi-level interagency transition model, which includes bringing vocational rehabilitation counselors into high school settings so they can collaborate with special education teachers in the planning and delivery of transition services. It is a collaboration between public high schools in three school districts, Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation, and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This program consists of pilot projects in five Utah school districts to help students with disabilities work toward competitive, integrated employment prior to graduation from high school. Teams work collaboratively to serve students and blend/braid funding so students can access wrap-around services needed to become employed and independent.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides trainings and facilitates interagency collaboration to improve transitions for students with disabilities. This includes technical assistance, parent and school personnel trainings, and facilitation of meetings between secondary transition stakeholders.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This statewide system is designed to improve employment recruitment, retention, and advancement for South Carolinians with disabilities, including by raising awareness, supporting systems that improve outcome for people with disabilities, disseminating information, and collecting data. Partners include the Vocational Rehabilitation Department, the state’s Centers for Independent Living, and a range of other state agencies and offices.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
SSTIC is a state-level interagency team designed to facilitate inter-organizational understanding, identify needs grounded in data, identify and realign capacity building resources, facilitate collaboration and avoid duplication, and share responsibility and planning to improve secondary transition for students with disabilities. Subcommittees focus on Family Involvement, Postsecondary Education, and Student Success.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Florida
These groups meet to improve transition services for students in their local communities, through relationship-building and the sharing of best practices. Each CCoT consists of individuals from local schools, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, service provider agencies, long-term support agencies, Aging and Disability Resources Centers (ADRCs), parents, and employers.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
SPOKES is an academic and job preparation skills program providing a range of services, and includes a cycle of modules related to job readiness, work process skills, technology skills, work-related academics, and vocational training in customer service. It is a collaboration between the West Virginia Departments of Education and Health and Human Resources. The Division of Rehabilitation Services works within this partnership to increase efforts to reach potential Vocational Rehabilitation consumers being served by the SPOKES program.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides employment services for individuals with the most significant disabilities, including those with serious mental illness. It is a collaboration between the Division of Developmental Disabilities, the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, and community rehabilitation providers.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program works with special education departments to coordinate services for students who will be graduating high school and need supported living services. Students begin meeting with a case coordinator during their last year in school to transition into post-secondary education, work, and living in the community.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides an opportunity for youth and caregivers to discuss goals and explore options for the future, including around specialized healthcare needs, career interests, training and goals, social services and expectations, linkages to community agencies, and independent living. It also allows for coordination and information-sharing between youth-focused and adult-focused rehabilitation programs.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Children’s Rehabilitation Service (CRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
Maine’s Employment First Team includes a Transition Workgroup, which focuses on identifying and addressing challenges that students with disabilities face in their transitions out of high school.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maine
The VOICE Project is designed to increase competitive employment opportunities for people with mental health diagnoses, including through trainings to Indiana Community Mental Health Centers and systems coordination. It is a collaboration between the Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) and Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), and is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Indiana
This group brings stakeholders together to improve outcomes for students with disabilities through interagency collaboration. Participants include state agencies, WI FACETS, the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center, Wisconsin Technical Colleges, and parents.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This program ensures that inmates have an appointment with a Vocational Rehabilitation counselor within a week of community re-entry. It is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, the Special Education Division of the Alabama Department of Education, and the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alabama
This program builds relationships between local schools and Montana Vocational and Rehabilitation Services (VRBS) by establishing regular office hours at larger high schools for Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors. These counselors connect students with disabilities to VRBS and establish collaborations with special education teachers, 504 coordinators, teachers, school administrators, parents, advocacy groups, and others regarding the role of VRBS in transition.
Operating Entity: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Vocational Rehabilitation and Blind Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Montana
This 12-week course provides leadership development to youth with developmental disabilities from Ethiopian communities in Montgomery County and the surrounding metropolitan area. The 300 Leaders curriculum will help youth develop the social and leadership skills needed for increased community engagement and future employment.
Operating Entity: Tisnat Institute
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
This program pairs transition-age youth with disabilities with Transition Consultants who connect youth with transition services and provide advice about entering postsecondary education or the workforce. Transition Consultants also provide transition trainings and advice to teachers and education providers.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Transition Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provide adults with disabilities opportunities to learn daily living, social, pre-employment and self-advocacy skills, including through paid work opportunities. It includes the Life Skills, Employment Readiness, Advocacy, and Participation (LEAP) Program, which provides community-based educational, volunteer, and work opportunities; entrepreneurial projects; goal setting and self-advocacy training; pre-vocational training; employability skill-building; leadership training, and more.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Florida
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Florida
This program offers support so individuals with developmental, physical, cognitive or multiple disabilities can live independently, gain social and daily living skills, and become active members of their communities. Individuals learn work-related skills by engaging in regularly scheduled volunteer work, community service projects, and other ventures. They also receive support and direction to interact with others, make their needs and choices known, and explore and engage in activities.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Southern California
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This program supports opportunities for people with developmental disabilities who are considered leaders to provide leadership training to people with developmental disabilities who may become leaders. The program targets youth and young adults ages 13-24 from traditionally underserved rural impoverished communities and helps them develop self-advocacy skills.
Operating Entity: Wesley Youth Foundation
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program helps middle school students with disabilities obtain self-advocacy, self-determination, and leadership skills. It focuses on promoting a greater access to general education curriculum, a greater participation in IEP and transition planning, improved self-management and self-regulation skills, and more. It is a partnership between the South Dakota Council on Developmental Disabilities, South Dakota Parent Connection, and the University of South Dakota Center for Disabilities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This self-determination leadership academy is designed to train individuals with disabilities, their family members, and professionals working with people with disabilities on topics ranging from self-determination to finding and using community supports to employment.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Kentucky
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kentucky
YAiT is a statewide group of students with disabilities who encourage and facilitate the development of self-determination and leadership skills in other youth with disabilities. The group also contributes to a student-led professional development module, designed to focus on transition planning from a student’s perspective.
Operating Entity: Auburn University, Auburn Transition Leadership Institute
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides students with autism and Asperger syndrome with training in socialization skills and academics. Through a mixture of didactic presentation, demonstration, role-play and discussion, students learn how to do the activities of daily living needed in order to be successful in school and to get a job.
Operating Entity: Tarrant County College
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
BCVDDP provides a range of services to youth with vision impairments and their families, including confidence-building activities, caregiver support and training, training to increase a child’s independence and ability to participate in vocational related activities, and more.
Operating Entity: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Texas
This week-long, immersive leadership camp helps youth with disabilities develop self-advocacy and social skills while giving them paid work experience and career exposure in the natural resources industry. It is a collaboration between the Youth Transition Program (YTP) within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Oregon State Parks.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
This specialized intervention service provides high school students with disabilities with supports to succeed in their Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) program and prepare for the workforce. The program provides learning supports, instruction, and opportunities that will result in the attainment of entry level job skills, as well as trainings around self-determination and transition skills.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education, Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Georgia
This Center helps people with disabilities become leaders in their communities, by providing information and trainings, including around finding a job.
Operating Entity: Virginia Commonwealth University, Partnership for People with Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Virginia
This program arranges specific community learning situations for individuals with disabilities, based on their individual goals, to help them engage with others and experience life situations. Each outing has a specific purpose and can include employment, academics, and social experiences.
Operating Entity: Creative Enterprises
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
These adaptive clinics help children with disabilities aged 4 to 24 gain empowerment and self-confidence, by partnering them with a volunteer mentor to learn about teamwork and bond over a sense of camaraderie.
Operating Entity: Dreams for Kids
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program helps students with disabilities prepare for post-secondary training through exposure to the college environment, as well as guidance on self-advocacy skills, study strategies, and technology use. It is offered virtually and at twelve sites in the state to Department of Rehabilitation Services consumers who are planning to attend post-secondary training.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
CTYLP provides youth and young adults with disabilities with opportunities for self-discovery, the development of self-advocacy, decision making, and problem-solving skills to maximize their leadership potential.
Operating Entity: Connecticut Youth Leadership Project, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program is designed to improve employment outcomes for youth and young adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, including by working with people with disabilities and families to build high expectations for employment and share tips for success.
Operating Entity: DC Department on Disability Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: District of Columbia
These conferences provide opportunities for students and adults with disabilities to gain insight into the transition and self-advocacy process. Students participate in workshops led by their peers, which touch on goal setting, self-discovery, student self-advocacy, and planning for the future. Parents are also welcome to attend.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: New Jersey
To maintain independent living status, SMILE provides individuals with disabilities varied services based on individualized needs. These services include individual and systems advocacy, service referral, independent living skills, peer counseling, transition services (including transition from high school), and more.
Operating Entity: Services Maximizing Independent Living and Empowerment (SMILE)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
CCD provides support and communication services to deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind individuals. Services include independent living skills training, peer support, advocacy, interpreting/communication services, walk-in office hours, and public videophone access.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Ohio
This program provides assessment, support, and guidance to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in problem identification and resolution in the areas of personal adaptation including interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, community participation, independence, work, and psycho-social challenges.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nevada
This program connects college students with blindness or visual impairment with career-specific mentors six months before graduation. All mentors are legally blind, and help prepare participants for workforce challenges unique to blindness. Additionally, participants receive Mississippi State University credit for participating in this program.
Operating Entity: Mississippi State University, National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Mississippi
This program offers a number of virtual and in-person day-long trainings to help transition-age youth with disabilities acquire necessary skills. Topics include learning to navigate employment networks, creating and setting boundaries in adult relationships, learning to live independently, and more.
Operating Entity: Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation and the Nebraska Department of Education’s Special Education division offer enhanced transitions services for students with disabilities, including around benefits planning in relation to career choices, communicating disability-related work support and accommodation needs, and finding and requesting support or accommodations in education, training, and employment settings.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
This seven-month program teaches transition-age youth self-advocacy and leadership skills, including around communicating their goals, learning to be leaders, and giving back to their communities.
Operating Entity: Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This initiative seeks to mobilize personal support networks for people with disabilities. During a 24-month program, participants complete a self-paced online course, engage in in-person learning forums, and receive ongoing mentoring and support. Participants receive training in community involvement, decision-making job finding, and other areas.
Operating Entity: North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: North Carolina
This group home living opportunity enables adults to participate in local employment programs and workshops. Services also include trainings on self-advocacy, social integration, community access, and other topics.
Operating Entity: In-Pact
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program provides a range of services to residents at the Access Center for Independent Living, including around advocacy leadership, youth transition, independent living, and employment preparation. It also offers peer support groups.
Operating Entity: Access to Independence Hawai’i
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Hawaii
This two-semester training program provides instruction and support to help individuals with disabilities gain the necessary skills and experiences to successfully transition into competitive integrated employment in the horticulture industry. The program focuses on five core Pre-ETS areas: career exploration, work-based learning, job readiness, self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Texas A&M University, Center on Disability and Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
This program matches students with disabilities to workplace mentors according to their expressed career interests. Students experience a typical day on the job and learn how to prepare to enter the world of work.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides classes for people with disabilities to learn skills that will assist them in pursuing independence. Topics include self-advocacy, choice and control, your rights 101, awareness and action, and voting. Participants will also have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project of their choice.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council (MDDC)
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: Ocean State Center for Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program involves providing trainings, resources, and information to individuals with disabilities seeking to improve independent living competencies. Trainings include topics such as: budgeting, goal-setting, learning public transportation, self-advocacy, organization, personal grooming, nutrition, stress management, and communication skills.
Operating Entity: Ability 360
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
IMPACT is a state-wide self-advocacy council for South Carolina, whose members present and attend statewide and national conferences and represent South Carolina by participating in various committees. The Council provides information, training, and leadership opportunities to enhance self-advocacy for people with disabilities, and promotes the development of local self-advocacy groups in the state.
Operating Entity: University of South Carolina, Center for Disability Resources
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: South Carolina
It’s My Turn GPS is a three-day self-determination curriculum for students with disabilities in middle school through high school. The workshops include four sections: vision, transition plan, building skills, and future planning. It was developed by the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
(OCECD) and is currently supported by the Ohio Department of Education, Office for Exceptional Children.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
Job Club is a safe place where young adults and adults with disabilities who are working or want to work come together to share their experiences and problem solve together. Job Club topics have included skill identification, turning hobbies into paid work, resume writing, dressing for success, interview skills, working with difficult bosses, customer and co-workers, and more.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Tennessee
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This program prepares DC youth with disabilities to complete the DC Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in inclusive workplaces, and to set and attain short- and long-term career goals. Services include case management, mentorship, and travel training.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
KYLF is a five-day forum in which high school juniors and seniors with disabilities learn about leadership, advocacy, and goal setting on a local university campus.
Operating Entity: Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program helps individuals with disabilities, family members, and community members improve their self-advocacy and leadership skills and learn more about disability issues. Topics include Inclusive Education & Communities, Employment First, Self Determination and Self Advocacy, and Social Security & Work Incentives.
Operating Entity: Family to Family Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
LEAP is a summer program designed to help students with disabilities gain the confidence and skills for independent living and employment.
Operating Entity: Texas A&M University, Center on Disability and Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Texas
These training sessions are provided to individuals with disabilities in either one-on-one or small group training settings. Training topics include cooking and nutrition, empowerment through employment, financial literacy and money management, travel training, and more.
Operating Entity: Direct Arizona
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This program offers adults with disabilities or deafness the opportunity to live and work as independently as possible in their communities. Services include skills training in independent living, work readiness, relationship building, self-advocacy, and health.
Operating Entity: Goodwill Northern New England
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maine
This group mentoring program enables youth with disabilities to engage in self-advocacy and social skills trainings, interactive discussions, role-playing, guest speaker presentations, games, and adaptive recreational activities.
Operating Entity: Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program funds partnerships between local school districts and two- and four-year public colleges and universities in Massachusetts, to enable students to enroll in college while also receiving special education services through the school district. Program participants develop their capacities in career-planning, employment, and self-advocacy, including by engaging in paid work and internships.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program seeks to enrich the lives of youth with disabilities through the arts, as well as assisting participants in pursuing education, employment, and interdependence and developing self-advocacy skills. Specific programming includes improv comedy nights, dance and movement classes, all-abilities yoga classes, art groups and classes, and more.
Operating Entity: Summit Independent Living
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This program guides students with disabilities through the transition from high school to college. Participants develop the study skills, social skills, and personal skills of successful college students; develop their own transition portfolios; and spend four days on the Montana State University Billings campus living in the residence hall and attending classes.
Operating Entity: Montana State University – Billings, Montana Center for Inclusive Education
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Montana
This conference provides youth with disabilities the opportunity to network with other youth statewide and gain leadership skills. Youth also receive guidance and support for successful transitions from school to achieve their individual education, employment, recreational, and housing goals.
Operating Entity: Utah Statewide Independent Living Council
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program provides youth with disabilities with a unique recreational experience that prepares them for school, work, and life inclusion. Participants learn about their disabilities, understand the importance of communication and listening skills, explore and share their talents and strengths, understand accommodations in the school and workplace, learn about independent living, and learn about the services necessary for job seeking and secondary education.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
This annual two-day training helps transition-age students with disabilities develop leadership and self-determination skills. Conference sessions focus on helping students fulfill their post-secondary education, employment, and overall life goals.
Operating Entity: University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Nevada
NCYLF is an overnight, multi-day program that fosters emerging leaders by teaching youth and young adults with disabilities about how to advocate in their communities and for themselves.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program assists individuals with developmental disabilities in developing leadership skills and becoming knowledgeable, confident, and effective advocates. Training topics include self-determination, employment, IEP development and advocacy, inclusive education, and more.
Operating Entity: West Virginia Developmental Disabilities Council
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program connects individuals with disabilities to mentors in the form of peer support workshops. The workshops are designed to provide a platform for brainstorming, problem solving, and sharing of concerns, successes, and ways to address issues.
Operating Entity: Independent Resources Inc. (IRI)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program connects people with mental illness to Peer Recovery Specialists, who provide support, mentoring, and advocacy to assist individuals in developing the skills they need to live an independent and productive life in the community.
Operating Entity: Mental Health Association in Delaware
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program provides classes and mentoring to help people with developmental disabilities share information and skills to attain employment. It is a collaboration between the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) and the Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition (OSAC).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
PFTN is a grassroots membership disability rights group led by self-advocates with the goal of empowering people with disabilities to have voices in addressing issues of equality that affect them. PFTN teaches youth and adults with disabilities about their legal rights and responsibilities, how to become effective self-advocates, and the power of self-determination.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Tennessee
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Tennessee
This self-advocacy initiative develops a corps of trainers, who themselves receive disability support services through a Medicaid waiver, to teach advocacy skills to other individuals who receive similar services. The training helps individuals with disabilities become more active in developing and implementing their individual service plans.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Tennessee
This statewide project assists young adults with developmental disabilities and their families in charting a life course for adulthood. The program offers a variety of resources including informational sessions, webinars, and resource guides/materials related to postsecondary education, employment, and self-direction. The program also runs monthly student and parent clubs and coordinates various transition events throughout the year.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Jersey
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oregon
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Puerto Rico
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Carolina
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Tennessee
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Utah
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Vermont
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wisconsin
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Wyoming
This program provides trainings and an all-day college visit to families of young adults with disabilities, to help them understand their child’s educational, developmental and transitional needs. It also includes a training series to help youth learn to self-advocate and discover what they would like to do after leaving high school.
Operating Entity: Thrive Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
Project STIR collaborates with other local, state and national agencies and organizations to increase awareness of inclusion, self-advocacy and self-determination among individuals with disabilities. It provides interactive workshops and technical assistance on a range of inclusion and advocacy topics through a team of trainers with and without developmental disabilities.
Operating Entity: University of North Carolina, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: North Carolina
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Law Center of Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights California (DRC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Connecticut
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Delaware
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Georgia Advocacy Office
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Georgia
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: DisAbility Rights Iowa
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Iowa
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Equip for Equality
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Illinois
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Center of Kansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Kansas
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Louisiana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Maryland
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Maryland
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Michigan
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Michigan
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Missouri Protection & Advocacy Services
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Missouri
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Montana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights North Dakota
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Center – New Hampshire
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Mexico
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New York
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New York
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Disability Law Center, Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Pennsylvania
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Rhode Island
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights South Dakota
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Texas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: disAbility Law Center of Virginia (dLCV)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Virginia
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Washington
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Washington
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights West Virginia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
RAMP is a career-focused mentoring program for youth with disabilities who are currently involved with or are at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. RAMP supports successful life transitions to employment, continued learning opportunities, and independent living through a variety of mentoring approaches.
Operating Entity: Ability Connection Colorado
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program offers rehabilitation services including vocational evaluation, situational assessments, training, and job readiness classes to prepare individuals with disabilities for employment. Clients have opportunities to engage with business through internships, externships, job tours, job shadowing, and mentoring. Services are offered at seventeen Community Tennessee Rehabilitation Centers (CTRCs) across the state.
Operating Entity: Tennessee Department of Human Services, Division of Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Tennessee
SET for Success helps students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan increase their employability skills and develop specific and attainable life goals. Easterseals Arkansas sends representatives directly to Arkansas schools to provide these services.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
STEPS is a resource center where young adults (ages 18-25) can receive mental health support. The program promotes self-advocacy, and offers opportunities for vocational, educational and social development.
Operating Entity: Wayside Youth & Family Support Network
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This program trains and educates self-advocates throughout the state and supports the goal of independence, productivity, self-determination, and integration into the community.
Operating Entity: Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Washington
This program provides one-on-one and group setting instruction to teach students with disabilities about their rights and responsibilities; how to request accommodations or services and supports; and how to communicate their thoughts, concerns, and needs in order to prepare them for peer mentoring opportunities with individuals working in their area of interest. Students can also participate in informational interviews.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program provides leadership training to individuals with intellectual disabilities by giving presentations on self-advocacy, leadership, inclusion in the community, and the benefits of having a job.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Mental Health, Division of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
Self-advocacy trainings are offered to individuals with disabilities on either a one-on-one or group basis. Focus areas include self-determination, seeking information to make decisions, active listening and problem-solving, self-respect and self-esteem, and standing up for individual rights
Operating Entity: Direct Arizona
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arizona
This training teaches young adults ages 16-26 to be effective self-advocates, including through trainings and peer-to-peer support.
Operating Entity: Families Helping Families
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program helps youth with disabilities and their parents plan for transition to college or the workforce, gain skills in self-advocacy, and access services after leaving school. Services are provided through Transition Advisors, interactive workshops, and webinars.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
This program provides specialized services designed to enhance quality of life and community inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides short-term individualized treatment services to promote skill development and self-management. It also encourages active participation of the person’s support network (family, friends, etc.) to strengthen natural supports.
Operating Entity: South Dakota Department of Human Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program includes a series of community trainings for people with disabilities, family members, and concerned citizens and professionals who are interested in promoting the best outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families in Nebraska. It focuses on leadership and advocacy training regarding systems of services and supports to individuals with disabilities and their families. It is a collaboration between the Munroe-Meyer Institute University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and the State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Nebraska
STRIVE ON is designed to help students who are blind or visually impaired prepare for post-secondary and employment goals, by promoting access and utilization of assistive technology and helping students develop self-advocacy and employability skills.
Operating Entity: Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
The state’s Centers for Independent Living provide students with disabilities access to job exploration activities, workplace readiness training, and social support and self-advocacy activities (including peer mentoring). Missouri Vocational Rehabilitation collaborates with businesses and school districts to provide support for the program.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
SWEP includes a five-week foundational program and a six-week more advanced program each summer in which youth who are blind or visually impaired engage in paid employment experiences and live in residences to develop skills in independent living and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This four-week program provides students with disabilities the tools and experience to gain and maintain employment after high school. It includes work-based learning, research into career clusters and pathways, assistance with resume writing, and training around interviews, soft skills, and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Access Alaska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Alaska
The SSP Program is pairs deafblind individuals with trained “human guides” to help individuals who are deafblind to maintain their independence in their community and continue to make informed decisions independently.
Operating Entity: Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This online learning program helps people with disabilities increase their leadership, self-determination, and self-advocacy skills, and improve their well-being.
Operating Entity: The Arc Wisconsin
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
The Youth Leadership Committee (YLC) is a group of youth with disabilities, ages 16 to 26, who are emerging leaders in the state of Utah. YLC’s mission is to get youth involved in self-advocacy, peer mentoring, and other activities that will improve the quality of life for youth with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Utah Statewide Independent Living Council
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps blind and visually impaired students achieve greater independence through classes like Cane Travel, Braille Literacy, Computers and Adaptive Technology, Home Management, Wood Shop and Needle Arts. Students master skills through completing course curriculum, and engage in group discussions and activities to help them build confidence, gain new experiences, and integrate into society.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program includes numerous trainings for youth with disabilities and their families, including around Self-Advocacy, Person-Centered Planning, and Transitions.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Nebraska
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Nebraska
Transition Camps are 3-5 day cross-state conferences that provide Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) through presentations by businesses, postsecondary education institutions, and vocational training providers to help students develop a vision for their future. The program is a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Alaska Department of Education.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
DC Public Schools offers a range of courses to prepare students with disabilities for their transitions. Courses include academic study skills, self-advocacy, computer skills, independent living skills, career development, and more.
Operating Entity: DC Public Schools
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program offers numerous Transition Mentoring Events to youth with disabilities. For example, each Transition Mentoring Day introduces students and job seekers with disabilities to workplaces where they can learn about various career opportunities.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Workforce Services, Office of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps deaf and hard of hearing students discover opportunities for employment or education after high school. It provides vocational exploration activities, vocational assessments, work-study and internship opportunities, and self-determination and self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Hawai’i Department of Education, Hawai’i School for the Deaf and the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Hawaii
Transition Counselors work with students with disabilities to discover their life interests and goals and prepare for employment. They also work with local schools to develop and implement pre-employment transition services.
Operating Entity: Arkansas Division of Workforce Services, Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program includes eighteen short-term programs that provide career exploration, job readiness, and work-based learning opportunities to students with disabilities. Topics include self-advocacy, independent living, workplace readiness, job exploration, and more.
Operating Entity: Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Nebraska
UAA TAPESTRY is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: University of Alaska Anchorage, Center for Human Development
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: Alaska
This virtual series is designed to prepare young adults with intellectual disabilities in pursuit of college and career with important takeaways, including around self-discovery, occupational/academic direction, advocacy, confidence with technology, social connections, and furtherance of college and career plans.
Operating Entity: University of New Hampshire, The UNH Institute on Disability (IOD)
Entity Type: College / University
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This intensive, eight-week job training program helps individuals with developmental disabilities (14+ years of age) navigate the transition into adult life. Students participate in life-skills based courses, job fairs, job site tours, benefits counseling, mentoring with employed peers, and complete 40 hours of paid work in customized internships within local nonprofits and businesses
Operating Entity: Mandy’s Farm
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: New Mexico
VIP is a pre-employment transition service that helps high school students ages 16-21 with developmental disabilities discover opportunities available after high school; learn what is expected of an employee; develop skills to gain competitive employment; and advocate for their rights. It is conducted in partnership with Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.
Operating Entity: ACCESS Arkansas
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program provides youth leaders with a variety of leadership and skill-building opportunities, including speaking to policymakers, connecting with employers, building self-advocacy skills, participating in transition conferences, and facilitating trainings and workshops.
Operating Entity: SchoolTalkDC
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: District of Columbia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Alaska
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Arkansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: California
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Connecticut
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Delaware
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Georgia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Iowa
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Illinois
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kansas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Louisiana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Maryland
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Michigan
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Missouri
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Montana
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: North Dakota
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Hampshire
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New Mexico
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: New York
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Oklahoma
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Texas
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Virginia
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Washington
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: West Virginia
YLF is a statewide training and leadership development event for high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen with disabilities who are transitioning to adulthood.
Operating Entity: West Virginia Statewide Independent Living Council
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: West Virginia
This program provides workshops for youth with disabilities and their families focusing on a range of topics, including Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), self-determination, employment hard and soft skills, and more.
Operating Entity: AccessAbility
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: South Carolina
Workshops for Youth is a program for individuals with disabilities ages 14-26 in a 12-county region in South-Central California. Workshops address topics like understanding and engaging in the IEP process, staying organized, creating a plan for the future, developing financial literacy skills, and preparing for interviews.
Operating Entity: EPU Children’s Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: California
YES! helps youth with disabilities develop self-awareness, self-determination, and self-advocacy skills to support a successful transition to adult life. It consists of a community group and a school program and is a collaboration between the Center for Accessible Living and the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Kentucky
Students with disabilities participate in a leadership in training (LIT) or a counselor in training (CIT) summer camp. The LIT program takes a deeper look into leadership, team building, and problem solving, and the CIT program teaches the work skills needed to be a camp counselor and work with children.
Operating Entity: Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Idaho
This program offers Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS), including instruction in self-advocacy and job exploration counseling, to help youth who are blind or visually impaired prepare for employment. It includes a collaboration with the Northwest Association for Blind Athletes (NWABA) to provide exposure to social and environmental experiences that prepare them for dealing with challenges and opportunities in independent living and work.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Oregon
This youth-lead program for grades 8 to 12 enables youth to explore their strengths, give back to the community through volunteering, develop their leadership capabilities, and set goals for high school and beyond. It is open to youth both with and without disabilities.
Operating Entity: Mission Empower
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Pennsylvania
YESS helps transition-age youth ages 16 to 25 successfully transition into adulthood by strengthening their skills and increasing their stability in housing, employment, education, and community living. The program is available in Utah County for those experiencing early psychosis. The program includes a large youth empowerment component, and provides training, mentoring, public speaking, and other opportunities for growth.
Operating Entity: Utah Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Utah
This program helps children and youth with serious mental, emotional, and behavioral difficulties build confidence and self-advocacy skills. YES builds on family and community support and utilizes program services to help build each participant’s family’s natural support network and connection in the community.
Operating Entity: Community HealthCore
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Texas
ECAC coordinates a youth leadership team that meets monthly, and also conducts several trainings for youth around topics related to transition and self-determination.
Operating Entity: Exceptional Children’s Assistance Center (ECAC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: North Carolina
YLA is a summer program, set on a university campus, which seeks to empower young people with developmental and other disabilities to further develop their leadership skills. Students participate in a range of activities and learning experiences.
Operating Entity: Virginia Board for People with Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
State / Territory: Virginia
YLF is a five-day intensive leadership program that helps high school juniors and seniors with disabilities develop leadership and self-advocacy skills. Students engage in activities related to self-esteem and team building, career choice, independent living, assistive technology, and various other empowering activities.
Operating Entity: Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Alabama
YLF is a six-day leadership program for students with disabilities, which is held virtually and includes post-YLF sessions in the months after the event. Delegates learn advocacy and leadership skills from alumni and professionals with disabilities and create a “Personal and Career Leadership Plan” to help reach their future education, independent living, and career goals. Follow-up sessions focus on topics such as post-secondary education and careers.
Operating Entity: California Department of Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: California
This program provides forums for high school students with disabilities to learn skills needed for employment, education, self-advocacy, and independent living.
Operating Entity: Missouri Governor’s Council on Disability
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Missouri
This week-long leadership and career preparation training program enables students with disabilities to learn more about their disability, different leadership styles, how to analyze their strengths and weaknesses, how to enhance their organizational skills, how to influence others, and more. It is run by the Transition Services Liaison Project (TSLP), which is funded by the South Dakota Special Education Programs Office and Division of Rehabilitation Services and managed by Black Hills Special Services Cooperative (BHSSC).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: South Dakota
YLF is a six-day, five-night program for high school juniors and seniors with disabilities. Participants cultivate their potential leadership, citizenship, and social skills.
Operating Entity: Washington Governor’s Committee on Disability Issues and Employment
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Washington
This program promotes self-advocacy and self-awareness for youth and young adults with disabilities ages 14-26. It offers regional workshops throughout Massachusetts on topics such as leadership, self-determination, peer networking, assistive technology in the workplace, and employment skills.
Operating Entity: Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Massachusetts
This week-long summer program serves Milwaukee and surrounding area high school students with disabilities, to help them learn independent living topics related to conflict resolution, college and employment issues, money management, disability rights, and more.
Operating Entity: Wisconsin FACETS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Wisconsin
This self-advocacy training service pairs youth with a mentor or peer who is close in age. Through this mentoring relationship, youth learn how to self-advocate for community, social, and professional services and supports.
Operating Entity: Florida Department of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
State / Territory: Florida
This program provides a variety of supports to youth with disabilities ages 14 to 24, including in-school workshops on Self-Advocacy, youth support groups, and a Youth Transitions Program.
Operating Entity: The Independence Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Colorado
The Oklahoma Parent Center (OPC) provides one-on-one assistance to youth with disabilities, including around available resources, their rights and responsibilities, participating in IEPs, and making decisions.
Operating Entity: Oklahoma Parents Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Oklahoma
The Youth Services Program provides young people with disabilities with the community-based experiences, skills, and access to services needed to ensure their inclusion in community life and successful transition to adult life. Specific components include a Transition Timeline Checklist, education programming, independent living skills training, advocacy training, and a Young Adult Council.
Operating Entity: accessABILITY
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Indiana
This program trains youth with disabilities on topics related to transition, employment, and self-determination.
Operating Entity: Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Virginia
OSCIL provides assistance to help 11th and 12th grade students with disabilities successfully enter the post- high school world. Services include trainings on independent living, self-advocacy, job skills, interviewing, and financial management, as well as peer support and advocacy, job shadowing, transportation assistance, and college visits.
Operating Entity: Ocean State Center for Independent Living (OSCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Rhode Island
This skill-building program helps prepare students with disabilities, ages 14 to 21, for their transitions to adulthood. Instruction focuses on building self-confidence, practicing effective communication skills, identifying appropriate career interests, encouraging successful decision-making, setting goals, learning how to take responsibility, and more.
Operating Entity: The Center for Independent Living Options (CILO)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
The Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL) offers a number of youth transition services including youth group support, a youth advocacy council, and numerous trainings around employment skills, communication skills, confidence and leadership, and more.
Operating Entity: Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Vermont
This program assists youth with disabilities ages 14-24 in transitioning to post-secondary education and/or employment. Services include referrals to vocational rehabilitation services, employment and education assistance, independent living skills training, self-advocacy training, and peer mentorship.
Operating Entity: Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Montana
YouthMOVE Ohio is a youth- and young adult-led organization devoted toward improving services and systems to promote youth inclusion, mental wellness, positive supports, and healthy transitions. YouthMOVE empowers youth (including those with mental health conditions) to advocate for themselves and live healthy, meaningful lives.
Operating Entity: NAMI Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
State / Territory: Ohio
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio
YLF is a five-day career leadership training program for 11th and 12th grade high school students with disabilities. It is a collaboration between the Ohio Statewide Independent Living Council and Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD).
Operating Entity: —
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
State / Territory: Ohio