This bill establishes the Task Force for Assessment of Services and Supports for People With Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities (IDD), which is tasked with preparing a comprehensive plan for implementing community-based services to people with IDD. Members of the Task Force include representatives from the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services, the Division of Mental Health and Addiction and the Department of Education.
Topic(s): Systems Coordination
This bill requires the Indiana Management Performance Hub, Department of Workforce Development and Department of Health to use data resources and technology to identify certain eligible students with disabilities, provide eligible individuals with a list of training and education opportunities and employment services resources and post that resource list online. In addition, it requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules to create an alternate diploma for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
This bill requires the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services to develop a plan to establish a statewide crisis assistance system program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It further establishes a task force to assess services and supports for people with IDD, which includes representatives from the Division and family members of people with IDD. Finally, it requires the Division to assess staffing and fiscal resources needed to provide vocational rehabilitation services to all eligible individuals.
This resolution urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate study committee the topic of an Employment First Program, which promotes and expands quality, community employment outcomes for all people with disabilities.
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program prepares individuals with disabilities for employment and supports them in job seeking and job retention through job coaching, pre-vocational training, and extended supports.
Operating Entity: New Horizons
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program offers levels of training for youth with autism, culminating in experiential learning and internship opportunities.
Operating Entity: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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: Indiana Treasurer of State
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
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
The PASS Project provides statewide support and professional development opportunities for educators (including teachers, interpreters, paraprofessionals, relate service personnel and administrators) to improve academic achievement and post-secondary transitions for students with sensory loss (including visual impairments and hearing loss). The project also facilitates the Visual Impairment Licensure Program and Deaf/Hard of Hearing Licensure Program at Indiana State University and the Educational Interpreter Mentoring Program.
Operating Entity: Indiana State University
Entity Type: College / University
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
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
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
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
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program provides community-based transition services to young adults with disabilities who are exiting high school. It includes the AIM (Achieving Inclusion and Meaning) program, where individuals participate in various activities such as volunteering in the community, learning how to use public transportation independently, and visiting museums and cultural events. It also includes a food truck program, where individuals work on New Hope’s food truck and learn pre-vocational, food preparation, customer service, and social marketing skills.
Operating Entity: New Hope of Indiana
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
This program provides job placement services to a range of adults with disabilities (including high school students and recent graduates) in 15 counties throughout the state
Operating Entity: Bona Vista
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
This webpage provides resources for people who are affected by the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Indiana Department of Health
Topic(s): Mental Health
Indiana created a document that contains a list of remote learning accommodations that can be employed for a variety of situations and disabilities. They included resources and policy describing how students with disabilities should receive information, demonstrate retention, be given an unrestrictive environment, and adjust their schedule to an unrestrictive timetable.
Operating Entity: Indiana Department of Education
Topic(s): Assistive Technology, Distance Learning, IEP
This is Indiana's main COVID webpage, which houses resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Long-COVID.
Operating Entity: Indiana COVID Webpage
Topic(s): Long-COVID
Indiana created a list of resources for educators to use when planning and implementing distance learning. These resources include plans for re-opening in the Fall of 2020, adjusting IEP plans for COVID-19 related complications, holding virtual IEP meetings, and policies regarding the provision of a least restrictive environment for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Indiana Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP