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Earning For a Lifetime, OSEP # H235M010108, 2001-2007 The purpose of the Earning for a Lifetime Project is to increase employment in high skill, living wage jobs for individuals with disabilities. Employment training, support, and retention services are provided through short-term training programs at four community colleges. The project addresses two "systems barriers" that historically have prevented adults with disabilities from accessing and benefiting from short-term training programs: (a) lack of awareness and collaboration between vocational rehabilitation, secondary and postsecondary education institutions, and (b) the lack of support services for participants in short-term training programs. Two important elements of this project were the regional Workgroups, which provided an important forum for collaboration and problem solving, and the Transition Academies, which help students with disabilities become familiar with college. While the grant has ended, the project continues thanks to a strong fiscal and administrative commitment from both vocational rehabilitation and community college partners in a formal partnership known as Career Workforce Skills Training. Products: |
