This bill establishes that the purpose of vocational rehabilitation programs is to prepare individuals with disabilities to engage in competitive integrated employment.
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This bill eliminates the subminimum wage for people with disabilities.
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This bill enables a student with a disability to receive a standard high school diploma if he or she satisfies the requirements set forth in his or her IEP and demonstrates, through a portfolio of work, proficiency in the standards of content and performance established by the Council to Establish Academic Standards for Public Schools. The bill also allows a student who has a significant cognitive disability to receive an alternative diploma if he or she passes an alternate assessment.
Topic(s): School-Based Prep
This Executive Order establishes the Governor's Taskforce on Integrated Employment, which is responsible for examining and evaluating current employment programs, resources, funding, available training and employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
This bill establishes the Nevada Commission for Persons Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Speech Impaired, and tasks the Commission with (among other duties):
1. Providing consumers with information concerning services and resources that promote equality in education, employment and socialization;
2. Providing referrals for those services and resources;
3. Making recommendations to state and local governmental entities concerning integrating services and programs for people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired; and
4. Improving cooperation among governmental entities that provide such services.
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
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: University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program enables individuals with disabilities to develop employment experience and work toward gaining permanent employment opportunities in the community or onsite at Capability Health. Participants earn a paycheck in the program making minimum wage.
Operating Entity: Capability Health
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program coordinates training and technical assistance for Nevada educators, administrators, parents, and other service providers on issues and trends in the education of youth with disabilities ages 3-22. The program includes the Severe Disabilities Summer Institute, in which educators and service providers learn to support transition-age students with significant disabilities.
Operating Entity: University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
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
This program assists individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in obtaining meaningful employment and living skills to achieve community inclusion, independence, and productivity. This program involves day habilitation, facility-based work training programs, prevocational services, and supported employment services.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Aging and Disability Services Division
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
This program provides a series of free events to educate individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, their families, and service providers about services and supports available in their community.
Operating Entity: Nevada Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, Family Engagement
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
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
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
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
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
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 is designed to help 11th and 12th-grade students with disabilities make the transition from high school to a post-secondary educational setting. Students obtain post-secondary education experience and have the opportunity to earn three credits with the College of Southern Nevada and half a high school elective credit. It is a collaboration between the Clark County School District and the College of Southern Nevada.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Topic(s): School-Based Prep, Systems Coordination
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
This webpage provides links to resources including the mobile crisis team and support hotline and resources for parents and adults in supporting children's mental health during the pandemic. This includes how children respond to trauma at different ages and how to care for someone's mental well-being during the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child and Family Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage links to the Hope Means Nevada campaign that addresses mental health and teen suicide in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This webpage includes statistics about mental health in Nevada overall and what to watch for related to an individual's mental health and phone numbers for crisis hotlines.
Operating Entity: Nevada Health Response
Topic(s): Mental Health
The Nevada Department of Education's reopening plan provides guidance for expanding IEP coverage due to COVID-19. The plan requires IEP teams to revise IEPs with any additional COVID-19-related considerations, such as distance learning requirements and the provision of compensatory education services. This plan also includes mental health provisions related to COVID-19, giving teachers resources to provide targeted traumatized intervention to affected students.
Operating Entity: Nevada Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP, Mental Health