Guide on Supporting Career Development of Youth with LD

NCWD/Youth released Charting the Course: Supporting the Career Development of Youth with Learning Disabilities. This Guide is intended to help practitioners, administrators, and policymakers in secondary and postsecondary education programs, transition programs, One-Stop Career Centers, youth employment programs, and community rehabilitation programs to improve services and outcomes for youth, ages 14 to 25, with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities.

This Guide includes numerous quick reference charts, tables, and tools for counselors, career advisors, and other professionals who work directly with youth. In-depth information is provided on a variety of topics, including the types and impact of learning disabilities, needed supports, and research-based interventions. This Guide is intended to increase awareness of the fact that the workforce development system serves many youth who have learning disabilities that may never have been identified and many others who may know they have a learning disability but choose not to disclose.

Although focusing primarily on youth with learning disabilities, many of the strategies and approaches advocated in this Guide, which are premised on universal design, may be of practical use for other youth.
Access the Guide and learn more at http://www.ncwd-youth.info/ld-guide.

ODEP Announces $1 Million Funding

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) announced that it will fund the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) at the level of $1 Million for another year. This year marks the 10th year of ODEP's support for NCWD/Youth.

"Focusing on transition-age youth is an important part of addressing the under-representation of people with disabilities in the labor force," said Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Office of Disability Employment Policy. "Many youth with disabilities still don't have access to age-appropriate experiences, especially when it comes to work. We are working to change this at ODEP."Read the press release at http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/odep/ODEP20101165.htm

NRA Conference Agenda Draft

The 2010 NRA Annual Training Conference DRAFT Agenda as of Sept 8, 2010 is available here!

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