KY Employment Partnership for Youth with Significant Disabilities
| KY-Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, UCEDD/LEND | |||
| Program Type | UCEDD | Fiscal Year | 2020 |
| Contact | Kathy Sheppard-Jones, PhD | ||
| [email protected] | |||
| Phone | 859-257-8104 | ||
| Project Description | |||
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he Human Development Institute University of KY (KY UCEDD), with the KY Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR), KY Department of Education, KY Division of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, KY Protection & Advocacy, KY Office for the Blind, Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities, KY Office of Autism, and the KY Autism Training Center propose a Partnership in Employment Systems Change to directly impact post-school outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in our state. We will create this state-level intervention at the point of greatest leverage in youths final years of school. Our aim, over the five years of this grant, is to impact youth outcomes within each of the states 174 school districts, Our target population is defined as all KY transition-age students with disabilities with the IDEA classifications of Moderate or Severe Intellectual Disability, Autism, and Multiple Disabilities; that is, youth with the most significant disabilities, with a special focus on students ages 18-21. The over-arching goal of our Partnership is to increase positive post-school outcomes (integrated employment; participation in post-secondary education; or both) for students with the most significant disabilities in our state by 20 percentage points over the five years of this grant. As one of the few states in the nation that measures the post-school outcomes for every student with an IEP exiting one year after school completion, we have both the baseline data and the data-analysis tools to track this measure for students with significant disabilities throughout the life of this grant. |
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