Ohio
This Executive Order establishes the RecoveryOhio Advisory Committee, which will advise the Governor's administration on matters related to mental illness and substance use prevention, treatment and recovery support services and provide recommendations on recovery support strategies (including peer support, employment and housing).
This bill enables the Director of Developmental Disabilities to establish an Employment First Task Force to improve coordination of the state's efforts to address the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities who seek community employment. It further appropriates funds for the Employment First Pilot Program, to develop a long-term, sustainable system that places individuals with developmental disabilities in community employment.
This program helps deaf and hard of hearing students further their education, gain employment experience, and develop and improve their independent living skills while receiving support from teachers and staff.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education, Ohio School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
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: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
Easterseals provides multiple construction skills training opportunities in the Cincinnati area where individuals with disabilities can gain on-the-job experience, certifications, soft skills, and professional connections.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Greater Cincinnati
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
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.
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Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program helps individuals with disabilities, including substance use disorders, find employment with the assistance of a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
Ohio College2Careers provides academic and employment support to students with disabilities at 15 public colleges and universities in the state. Counselors are located within the disability services offices at colleges and assist students with career exploration and counseling, assistive technology, resume and interview preparation, internships and permanent employment, assistance navigating OhioMeansJobs resources, and connection to an expansive employer partner network.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This partnership between the Ohio Department of Education and Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities increases the availability of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) counselors for students with disabilities beginning at age 14 to improve post-school outcomes. Forty-three counselors partner with local education agencies to serve students with disabilities throughout the state.
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Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
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: Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
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.
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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 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: Disability Rights Ohio
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides services to help individuals who are visually impaired achieve meaningful employment, mental and physical restoration, and personal independence. Services include vocational guidance and counseling, job search preparation, and assistance with job retention.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This program provides youth with disabilities opportunities to explore careers and gain work experience. The career exploration component helps individuals explore their interests and gain work related skills such as time management and budgeting. The work experience component pairs individuals with disabilities with the community to gain valuable work experience and advance skills to prepare for competitive integrated employment.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
TTW programs prepare secondary educators and rehabilitation professionals to support youth with disabilities as they pursue college, careers, and community membership, and are offered at six universities in the state. The TTW endorsement can be issued to individuals who hold a valid standard Ohio intervention specialist, career-technical teaching, or professional pupil services license or certificate.
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Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program provides vocational services to individuals with disabilities ages 18 and over, including career exploration, job search assistance, job placement, and coaching.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Northern Ohio
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 helps individuals with disabilities move out of subminimum wage employment and into competitive integrated jobs. Works4Me brings together partnerships across the state as an extension of Ohio's Employment First partnership to expand community employment opportunities, reduce barriers to competitive integrated employment, and align state policy for individuals with developmental disabilities. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD) is partnering with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD), county boards of developmental disabilities, and service providers, to offer a robust support network.
Operating Entity: Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program assists youth with disabilities and their parents in establishing employment and post-secondary education goals and connecting with employment services and resources.
Operating Entity: Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living (SOCIL)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, Family Engagement
LEAP works with high school students with disabilities year round and prepares them for the transition to the adult world of work or postsecondary education/training. LEAP's School-to-Work Transition program combines work-related instructional activities with on-the-job training.
Operating Entity: Linking Employment, Abilities, and Potential (LEAP)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
This webpage provides an A-B-C structure for thinking about your mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides advice, information on topics such as mental health symptoms and other resources.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This memo alerts workers that if they have an allowed COVID-19 injury claim, they can request authorization for post-acute-COVID services if certain conditions are met.
Operating Entity: Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This document emphasizes the need for schools to utilize clear face shields when communicating with disabled students. Specifically, it notes that face shields are more effective than masks when speaking to students with communicative disabilities or hearing impairments.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Assistive Technology
This resource includes guidance on providing education to students with disabilities during the COVID19 pandemic. This document includes a discussion of IEP adjustments in response to COVID-19, necessary adjustments to instruction when moving special education online, and requirements for schools when providing assistance to students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
This web page provides guidelines for school districts seeking to engage families in Ohio's process of returning to in-person learning. It emphasizes consistent communication over multiple mediums, and it lists resources for parents adjusting to distance learning, It also provides sample family engagement plans for multiple Ohio school districts.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, Family Engagement
This article provides a strong introduction to Long-COVID, including its symptoms, potential risks, treatment and likelihood of contraction.
Operating Entity: Ohio State University
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This video gives tips on how to maintain mental health during the COVID pandemic.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities
Topic(s): Mental Health
This info doc gives best practices for utilizing technology and internet tools for distance learning regarding students with disabilities. It emphasizes the necessity of providing training and technology for teachers educating students with disabilities online, and it notes that teachers should not use purely visual teaching methods when instructing students with visual impairments. It also emphasizes expanding mental health services, setting up Ohio's "Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support" system for tele counseling services and allocating additional funds for school mental health counselors
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, Mental Health
This web page requires gives specific disability education guidelines for schools returning to in-person instruction. It provides specific guidelines for school districts conducting remote IEP meetings and lists guidelines for school districts considering whether to give IEP students compensatory or extended school year educational services. It also lists questions for school districts to answer when considering distance learning methodology for students with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Distance Learning, IEP
This webpage gives advice on how schools can maintain community relationships, ensure adults self-care, use social-emotional learning, support positive behavior, use trauma-sensitive practices and teach suicide awareness and prevention. The structure of the advice suggests the source is written for educators, but provides counsel that could apply to any reader.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This web page emphasizes Ohio Schools' requirement of implementing telehealth services. This page informs both educators and parents of related Ohio and Federal telehealth privacy law, and it gives broad guidelines under which students with disabilities should participate in telehealth services.
Operating Entity: Ohio Department of Education
Topic(s): Telehealth