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What Can YOU Do? The Campaign for Disability Employment
Work is an important part of people’s lives. It means more than just getting paid. It means being able to make your own choices about how you want to live your life.
At work, it’s what people can do that matters. If you are a young person with a disability, only you can decide your limits. You can work in a wide variety of jobs and play an important role in America’s economy.
Today more than ever, businesses need people who can think differently about how to solve problems and get the job done. People with disabilities do this in America’s workplaces every day – and so can you. So set your sights high!
Talk to your counselor and/or advisor at school to find out about and take advantage of the resources are available to help you seek employment, succeed on the job, and understand your right to be judged on your ability, not disability.
Check out the whatcanyoudocampaign.org website for more information.
Transition from school to the adult world takes on special importance for youth with disabilities. When high school ends, so does their entitlement to special education and related services. Needed services and supports must be coordinated. The options can seem confusing and overwhelming at times. The items on this page are designed to help give you the resources and information you need to navigate through this very important life transition.
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- Transition: Information for Young Adults with Disabilities and their Parents
Booklet: Designed to make the transition to adulthood a smooth, informed and organized process.
- Opening Doors to Self-Determination Skills
Booklet Series: One in a series of booklets published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Setting and achieving goals helps students grow. Knowing their strengths and addressing their weaknesses is important as students prepare for life after high school. As Students move through school and toward adulthood, they go through a process of considering who they are and who they wish to become. Students can work with counselors, parents, and teachers as they work with this resource.
- Opening Doors to Adult Services
Booklet Series: One in a series of booklets published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Created to provide a guide for students, parents, teachers, and school counselors as they prepare for the students life after high school.
- Opening Doors to Employment
Booklet Series: One in a series of booklets published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Created to provide input and direction to students as they set and work toward their employment goals. It offers career exploration strategies, job preparation advice, and job search strategies.
- Opening Doors to Postsecondary Education and Training
Booklet Series: One in a series of booklets published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Leads the reader through a process of planning for life after high school that includes making decisions, planning, and taking action. Helps the student to consider his or her strengths and weakness, plan a high school experience that will achieve specific goals, explore possibilities for work and a career, and identify the next steps for life after high school.
- Options for Independent Living
Website: Independent Living Center serves 17 counties in Northeast Wisconsin. Model home is a showcase of assistive technology, loan closet, resource assistance, advocacy for individuals with all disabilities and ages.
- Children With Special Needs Online Resource Directory
Website: Online directory of resources to help children and youth with special needs, their families, and service providers.
- Northest Regional Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Website: Information and links to get your questions answered about your childs special health care needs.
- Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA-7)
Website for the Transition services office location in Green Bay Wisconsin
- National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Website: Coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities
- WI Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Website: WI DVR serves persons with disabilities with employment services and counseling and training and technical assistance to employers regarding disability employment issues.
- WI Family Assistance Center for Education, Training and Support
Website: Also known as Wisconsin FACETS. Resource for children and adults with disabilities and their families.
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Transition Information
Website with lots of information and resources.
- Wisconsin Statewide Transition Initiative
Website: Information about transition coordinators located in each of the 12 Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA)
- Wisconsin Youth First
Website: Unique website developed by youth, for youth. Wisconsin friends can keep in touch, about school, work and leadership activities.
- Wisconsin's Collaborative Systems of Care
Website: Resource for anyone involved with assisting adolescents with emotional or behavioral difficulties with their transition to adulthood.
- Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
Website: The board was established to advocate on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities, foster welcoming and inclusive communities, and improve the disability service system.
- American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Website: Information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Government site
- Family Care Program Expansion Map
Map illustrating the progress and timing of Family Care Program expansion in Wisconsin
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