This Executive Order establishes the Governor's Task Force on Employment and Economic Opportunity for people with disabilities, to advise the Governor on policies and programs that will increase employment and economic opportunity for people with disabilities. Members include representatives from the Office of Special Education, the Division of Behavioral Health and the Department of Transportation.
This Executive Order establishes the Governor's Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion, which is tasked with identifying and recommending ways to combat discrimination and advance diversity and inclusion, including in employment. Members include representatives from the departments of Labor and Education and the state's university and community college systems.
Topic(s): Systems Coordination
This bill establishes a committee to study the payment of subminimum wages to people with disabilities and develop a strategic plan to phase out subminimum wages. The plan must address mechanisms to implement technical assistance and training to employers and provider agencies as they phase out subminimum wage arrangements and to provide employment services for individuals with disabilities as they are phased out of subminimum wage arrangements.
This bill prohibits employers from paying any individual with a disability an hourly rate lower than minimum wage. It also repeals the special authorization for sheltered workshops.
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 New Hampshire, The UNH Institute on Disability (IOD)
Entity Type: College / University
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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: New Hampshire Governor's Office, The Governor's Commission on Disability (GCD)
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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 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
Topic(s): Family Engagement
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 Information Center of New Hampshire
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
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
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, Family Engagement
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
This program provides virtual transition educational events on family resources, self-determination and advocacy skills, post-secondary opportunities, and more to individuals with disabilities and their families.
Operating Entity: Next Steps New Hampshire
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Family Engagement, Youth Development & Leadership
This program helps people with physical, psychiatric, and learning disabilities find and keep a job. New Hampshire's Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation offers services at 7 locations across the state.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This list of recommendations regarding reopening schools from the New Hampshire governor emphasizes trauma-responsive instruction, social-emotional learning and mental health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also provides links to further resources on how parents can support children's mental health at home, especially in light of potential school closures.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This is a press release stating the DOE has given NH 1 million in special education grants for distanced learning. This money was specifically spent to provide necessary assistive technology and software for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning
This document from the New Hampshire Department of Education is in response to the pandemic, emphasizing five habits to improve mental wellness and includes a checklist with activities to try if one is not feeling like oneself, feeling agitated, feeling withdrawn, experiencing poor self-care or feeling hopeless.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This is a document with guidance for students with disabilities during COVID-19. It creates a three tiered plan to adjust and virtually instruct students with IEPs. It notes that schools may choose to provide in-person instruction to only students with an IEP, adjust virtual instruction for IEP students, provide compensatory education services for students with an IEP, or any combination of these plans.
Operating Entity: New Hampshire Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, Family Engagement