AUCD: Poster Symposium: Strengthening Systems Collaboration and Coordination to Improve Community Integration and Self-Determination: Partnerships in Employment: Building a Vision through Systems Collaboration and Coordination

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Partnerships in Employment, Transition Systems Change [download]

Presenter

Karen Flippo, MRA, Program Director
Institute for Community Inclusion/Boston Children's Hospital, UCEDD/LEND

Description

Partnerships in Employment is funded by AIDD to address systemic barriers that youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience when transitioning from high school to competitive employment. This project, located in 8 states, requires extensive collaboration and communication between state vocational rehabilitation, developmental disabilities and special education agencies. The poster session will describe policy and practice changes introduced by the projects and their effect upon the respective state systems  

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