TIER-NET: Transition to Integrated Employment Resource Network
Project Description:
TIER-Net addresses longstanding challenges associated with the transition point between high-school and early adulthood by focusing on the pre-employment needs of adolescents with intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD). Over the past four decades, special educators, vocational rehabilitation (VR) personnel, researchers, and policy makers have focused a great deal of attention on documenting and monitoring the community integrated employment rates of adults with I/DD.1, 2, 3, 4 Beginning in 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)5 required that all adolescents with disabilities in U.S. public high schools have appropriate, measurable "transition goals" along with school- and community-based "transition services" included in their individualized education programs (IEP). This same requirement has been included in all subsequent reauthorizations of IDEA,6 and is being reinforced in more recent national policies and initiatives including Title IV of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA),7 Employment First,8,9 and College and Career Readiness.
Keyword(s):
Employment Resource Network
Core Function(s):
Other Direct/Model Services
Area of Emphasis
Employment-Related Activities, Quality of Life, Other - Assistive Technology, Other - Cultural Diversity, Other - Leadership
Target Audience:
Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Adults with Disabilities
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
