This bill appropriates funding to prepare sensory-impaired and multi-disabled students to become productive citizens by providing a learning environment that addresses their academic, vocational, and social development.
This resolution creates the Joint Study Committee on Postsecondary Education and Employment Options for Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, consisting of Legislative members and members appointed by the Governor.
ASPIRE is a student-led Individualized Education Program (IEP) initiative that helps students with disabilities build self-confidence, self-determination, and self-advocacy skills in preparation for the educational, career, and independent living decisions needed for adulthood. It is a collaboration between the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) and the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD).
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
GaIPSEC works with members of diverse communities to help higher education institutions implement programs that extend opportunities for higher education to young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Operating Entity: Georgia State University, Center for Leadership in Disability
Entity Type: College / University
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: Georgia Office of State Treasurer
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
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: Parent to Parent of Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
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
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
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This leadership development program assists young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in achieving their goals. The program works with participants to develop a project plan in partnership with community members to address a local issue.
Operating Entity: The Arc, The Arc Georgia
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
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: Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe
Entity Type: Other
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program helps people with disabilities find and maintain employment through 43 vocational rehabilitation sites across the state. Programming includes school-to-work transition services.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This 10-day program helps high school seniors (particularly those with disabilities) measure their work readiness through assessment, hands-on activities, and work experience.
Operating Entity: Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA), Roosevelt Warm Springs/Cave Spring Center
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
The Georgia Department of Education developed a one page document which directs viewers to additional distance learning resources such as virtual supports and best practices.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning
This guidance tool developed by the Georgia Department of Education provides schools and families answers to frequently asked questions regarding service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic including distance learning, IEPs, and resources for families as they adapt to school changes.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, Family Engagement, IEP
Georgia provides a free course for educators preparing them to serve students with disabilities in the online format. This course describes individualized adjustments that instructors may make to ensure the best educational environment for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning
Georgia provides a Q & A document discussing the effects of school closures on the IEP process and service provision. It describes contingency plans for special education services in the event of either in-person or virtual instruction, and it describes adjustments IEP teams should make to best provide educational services to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
This presentation, intended for school mental health professionals as well as a broader audience, provides practical advice on how to support grieving students in any context during the pandemic, including addressing grief across different cultures, offering appropriate academic accommodations and managing grief triggers.
Operating Entity: Georgia Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health