This bill:
1. Requires transportation network companies (TNCs) to adopt policies of non-discrimination on the basis of disability (among other characteristics) and provide drivers with information on accommodating a rider with a disability;
2. Prohibits TNCs from imposing additional fees for accommodating a person with a physical disability because of that disability; and
3. Requires drivers to comply with all applicable laws relating to accommodation of service animals.
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This bill requires the New Jersey Transit Corporation to ensure that all paratransit services it manages and administers adhere to a specific set of standards, and to collaborate with the Department of Human Services to develop and implement a paratransit best practices pilot program. The pilot program will produce a training module for paratransit best practices and train paratransit providers on those best practices. Finally, the bill establishes regional paratransit coordinating councils for the purpose of exchanging best practices.
Topic(s): Connecting Activities, Systems Coordination
This bill establishes a multi-stakeholder Task Force on Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities, to study the problem of unemployment and underemployment among individuals with disabilities and provide recommendations on how to increase opportunities, expand employment readiness and training programs and offer greater employment supports.
This bill establishes and appropriates money for county college-based adult centers for transition, whose purpose is to coordinate and integrate existing county- and state-based services, programs and resources, and to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities up to the age of 24 have opportunities to receive mentoring, job coaching, skill training and any other appropriate wrap-around services to help them make a successful transition into employment and independent living.
Participants in the day training program get a personalized service plan that focuses on the following: 1) social and communication skills, 2) functional life skills, 3) recreation, 4) health and wellness activities, 5) educational, volunteer, and employment opportunities, and 6) self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
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: Disability Rights New Jersey (DRNJ), The Richard West Assistive Technology Advocacy Center (ATAC)
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: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
The Career Pathways Connections program provides opportunities for individuals with hearing loss to enter the workforce and obtain sustainable employment. The program is run by staff that are proficient in American Sign Language, experienced in identifying workplace accommodations, trained in assistive technologies, and knowledgeable in resources for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides personalized college support for students with learning and social challenges. This includes providing high school students with an introduction to college, and college students with ongoing support. The program consists of an Individualized College Plan, peer mentorship, pre-employment training, self-advocacy training, and more. It is a collaboration between College Steps, high schools, colleges, families, and agencies.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
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: Association for Special Children and Families
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Family Engagement
This program helps individuals with disabilities who might be experiencing discrimination in the workplace due to their disability. The team provides information about a person's rights and provides guidance on how to vindicate those rights. The program also assists individuals who are seeking a reasonable accommodation so that they may maintain their employment.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
Easterseals New Jersey offers a range of services - including pre-vocational evaluation, work adjustment training, school to work transition, supported employment, extended employment, and job placement services - at two employment sites located in Central and Southern New Jersey.
Operating Entity: Easterseals New Jersey
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
Kach is a three-year program for individuals with disabilities that provides classroom and experiential learning opportunities at Brookdale Community College. Students attend Kach classes to strengthen basic academic skills, audit regular college courses, and enjoy full integration into the Brookdale community. It is a collaboration between Brookdale and The Arc of Monmouth.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Topic(s): School-Based Prep
This program provides a range of professional development and technical assistance activities to help families, educators, and community service providers improve the existing educational service systems for children with deafblindness in the state.
Operating Entity: The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Center on Sensory and Complex Disabilities
Entity Type: College / University
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 12 eastern states plus DC and 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: Navigating Excellence Parent Center Assistance & Collaboration Team (NE-PACT)
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This statewide project assists young adults with developmental disabilities and their families in charting a life course for adulthood. The program offers a variety of resources including informational sessions, webinars, and resource guides/materials related to postsecondary education, employment, and self-direction. The program also runs monthly student and parent clubs and coordinates various transition events throughout the year.
Operating Entity: The Arc of New Jersey
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.
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 helps prepare students with special needs for post-graduation employment. Transition students explore career opportunities through job sampling at a variety of local businesses, which gives them real-life experience to better understand and participate in the world of work.
Operating Entity: The Arc Union County
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
Topic(s): Career Prep & Work-Based Learning
NE-PACT provides technical assistance to Parent Centers in Region A (which includes New Jersey), including 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
The Division works with various partners to ensure that individuals approaching the age of 21 have the tools and resources needed to successfully transition from school into adulthood. This includes offering presentations on transitions, supporting transition programs, and more.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program helps individuals who are blind or visually impaired become more employable and ultimately obtain employment. Services include vocational evaluation, counseling and guidance, career exploration, training, job placement, supported employment services, post-employment services, high school transitional services, college counseling/support, assistive technology services, computer training, and more.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
The Joseph Kohn Training Center offers people who are blind and visually impaired an opportunity to learn independent life skills, including skills to attend college or seek employment. The program includes a career assessment and vocational counseling component.
Operating Entity: State of New Jersey Department of Human Services, Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Topic(s): Connecting Activities
This program consists of eight, two-hour training sessions that seek to teach young people with developmental disabilities a wide variety of skills and information that they can take with them out into the world of self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: The New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
Topic(s): Youth Development & Leadership
This is a helpline for emotional support as well as a helpline for the deaf and/or hard of hearing during COVID-19. This helpline also serves as a hotline for mental health crises.
Operating Entity: New Jersey Department of Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This web page discusses free summer educational programs for students on an IEP. The plan provides guidance for supplementing IEP plans, stating that IEP teams must assess all IEP programs to ensure that students with necessary IEP requirements have access to extended school year learning.
Operating Entity: New Jersey Department of Education
Topic(s): IEP
New Jersey's One-Stop Career Center Services has notified all transition-age job seekers that, due to COVID-19, it has moved its services online. As such, the New Jersey DLDP has continued to provide transition age youth with job-seeking assistance, resume and interview help, and other job market advice, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
Operating Entity: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Topic(s): Transition