This bill modifies eligibility criteria so that students with disabilities can apply for the Excelsior scholarship, which helps cover tuition at New York state public institutions of higher education. It further requires transportation network companies (TNCs) to adopt policies and comply with laws related to non-discrimination of riders on the basis of disability (among other characteristics), and prohibits TNCs from imposing additional charges for providing services to people with physical disabilities because of those disabilities.
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, School-Based Prep
This bill requires the Commissioner of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to establish the Care Demonstration Program, to utilize the state workforce to provide community-based care to individuals with developmental disabilities, including around pathways to employment and supported employment.
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: Westchester Institute for Human Development
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
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 York
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
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
Topic(s): Family Engagement
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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, Systems Coordination
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
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 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
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program provides services at 10 Career Centers in the state, through designated Disability Resource Coordinators, to help people with disabilities search for jobs, develop resumes, and complete job applications. It is jointly funded and administered by U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Labor
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
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: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
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 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
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 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
This program provides parents of children with disabilities information, resources, and strategies to promote meaningful involvement in their children's education programs, including around transition planning. Services are provided through 13 Centers throughout the state.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department, Office of Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Family Engagement
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
These programs help teens who are blind or visually impaired prepare for work. They include a Summer Transition Program at Queens College, a Pre-College Program at Manhatanville College, and Work Experience Training Internships.
Operating Entity: VISIONS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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
ACCES-VR provides a range of services to help individuals with disabilities (including youth) prepare for, find, and maintain employment. This includes vocational counseling and guidance, assessments and evaluations, adaptive driver training, work readiness training, youth services, job coaching, on-the-job training, and more.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department, ACCES-VR
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
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 network is run for and by youth and young adults with disabilities (and/or who are involved in systems like foster care, addiction recovery, mental health, juvenile justice, and special education). It provides technical assistance, training, and education opportunities to peers, including in the areas of independent living and employment.
Operating Entity: Families Together in NYS
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
This webpage includes a section on Long-Haul COVID-19, to assist workers in filing a claim for free medical care and/or lost wage replacement through workers’ compensation insurance as a result of Long-Haul COVID-19. It also includes a section of Webinars and Other Resources, which includes fact sheets on Long-COVID.
Operating Entity: New York State Workers’ Compensation Board
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This is a memo regarding the continuity of learning of special education for school workers. Most significantly, it adjusts all IEP meetings such that they must occur virtually, and provides for special education programs to occur online.
Operating Entity: New York State Education Department
Topic(s): IEP
This program provides a variety of resources to help people understand their reactions and emotions during COVID-19. This includes a free, confidential emotional support helpline, a provider directory, an online wellness group and information and resources.
Operating Entity: New York State Office of Mental Health
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document outlines initial practices for New York educators instructing students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The document provides a list of both public and private resources available to New York schools that assist educators teaching students with disabilities. It also provides guidance for the tele-facilitation of IEP services, including teletherapy and teleintervention services, and it ensures that virtual IEP meetings can occur via videoconferencing or conference call mediums.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
This web page provides resources to parents and students coping with mental health concerns related to COVID-19. Specifically, the web page provides resources helping parents and educators speak to their children about COVID-19-related trauma, self-care resources, and mental health resources for parents adjusting to distance learning.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This Q&A document provides supplemental information to parents and educators of New York students with disabilities. It emphasizes that IEP teams should create contingency plans for IEP students with additional distance learning requirements as needed. It also provides a list of resources for educators and families seeking to help students with disabilities adjust to distance learning.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
This Q&A document provides supplemental information to parents and educators of New York students with disabilities. This document emphasizes that students with applicable IEPs will receive extended school year services throughout July and August, thereby providing additional resources to students with disabilities who had reduced access to necessary resources due to distance learning.
Operating Entity: New York State Department of Education
Topic(s): IEP