| Baltimore
City Literacy and Disability Project - U.S.
Department of Education awarded MSDE DORS $1.23 million to provide enhanced
literacy services to people with disabilities. The five-year demonstration
project will bring MSDE and DORS together with the Baltimore City Community
College, the Mayor's Office of Employment Development, the Maryland Coalition
for Literacy and Making Choices for Independent Living (MCIL).
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| Literacy Grant
-The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has been awarded $1.23
million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to provide enhanced
literacy services to people with disabilities served by MSDE's Division
of Rehabilitive Services (DORS). This five-year demonstration project will
bring MSDE and DORS together with the Baltimore City Community College,
the Mayor's Office of Employment Development, The Maryland Coalition for
Literacy, and Making Choices for Independent Living (MCIL).
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| Maryland High School/High Tech
- U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy awarded
MSDE DORS a development grant to fund projects that prepare high school students
with disabilities for technology-related careers and post-secondary education.
The High/School High/Tech project will target youths as young as 15 and include
work-based learning activities, onsite corporate field trips, mentoring, job
shadowing and summer internships. The Division is eligible to receive up to
six years of funding or approximately $1.6 million.More information
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| Maryland Youth Leadership Forum
- This four day July workshop brings together 30 student delegates who are
entering either of their last two years of high school. These students with the
whole range of disabilities are selected by their local communities for their
leadership potential. More information/application process
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| Postsecondary Education Research Center (PERC) Project
- coordinated by TransCen, Inc. (www.transcen.org) has launched a website that
provides information and resources on college options for students with
intellectual disabilities. The site provides answers to frequently
asked questions (FAQs) related to developing or expanding services for
students with intellectual disabilities in college settings. It also provides
access to a free online evaluation tool, the PERC Self-Assessment Tool, that
allows users to evaluate aspects of programs or services for students with
intellectual disabilities on college campuses. This self-assessment tool
provides a snapshot of the quality of existing services and provides users
with a concise evaluation report. It also provides users with the opportunity
to create an itemized action plan to that can be used to address areas in need
of improvement
More information
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| Youth Continuing
Disability Review Project - The Social
Security Administration awarded a five year cooperative agreement to the
MSDE Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services and the Division
of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) for the purpose of developing a model
service delivery system to assist youth with disabilities to successfully
transition from school to work. For more information, email:
Tom Barkley
(tbarkley@msde.state.md.us ) |
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| National Internship & Scholarship Opportunity
for College Students with Disabilities - The Social
Security Administration awarded a five year cooperative agreement to the
MSDE Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services and the Division
of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) for the purpose of developing a model
service delivery system to assist youth with disabilities to successfully
transition from school to work. For more information, email:
Tom Barkley
(tbarkley@msde.state.md.us ) |
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