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Centers Focused on Youth | Centers Led by Youth | Disability Organizations | Youth organizations
Part of NCLD-Youth's goal of being one of the go-to places for connecting with youth with disabilities is connecting to other organizations and groups who work within the five areas of development, and there are a lot of them. We have divided them into the five areas learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading as well as including separate listings for general youth development organizations and disability-specific organizations. Many of the disability specific organizations you will also find under the relevant area of development, but NCLD-Youth felt it would be additionally useful to have them available separately as well.
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Connecting:
LET'S CONNECT WEB SITE
This web site was created by young people with chronic illnesses for
young people with chronic illnesses. It provides forums, links to
information about conditions and programs, and Dear Connect where users
can write to the site's creators, and more. The web site can be found at
http://www.letsconnect.org/
Thriving:
North Carolina’s Office on Disability and Health has a variety of useful resources:
Women Be Healthy
Women's Health Initiative include work focused on assessing the accessibility of Moble Mammography Centers and a reproductive health curriculum for women with DD. http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/WomensHealth/index.cfm
Removing Barriers to Health Car (http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/rbhealthcare.pdf OR http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/htmls/rbhealthcare.htm) covers how to make medical environments welcoming to people with disabilities.
Partners in Health Care , (http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/partners.pdf), address what questions/issues people with disabilities should bring up with their health care provider and what issues health care providers should raise/be aware of when they have a patient with a disability.
Youth Centers:
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)
http://www.ncwd-youth.info
NCWD/Youth assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve youth with disabilities. NCWD/Youth strives to ensure that youth with disabilities are provided full access to high quality services in integrated settings in order to maximize their opportunities for employment and independent living.
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National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD/Youth)
COMING SOON! http://www.ncld-youth.info
NCLD/Youth is a youth-led national resource, information, and training center for youth with disabilities. Founded on the five areas of youth development learning, connecting, thriving, working, and leading, NCLD/Youth strives to promote a well-developed and well-trained cadre of youth and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities in each of the three partner states to influence state and local-level youth development and leadership public policy.
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National Youth Employment Coalition
http://www.nyec.org
The National Youth Employment Coalition improves the effectiveness of organizations that seek to help youth become productive citizens through tracking, crafting, and influencing policy, setting and promoting quality standards, providing and supporting professional development, and building and increasing the capacity of organizations and programs.
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National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) http://www.ncset.org
NCSET coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportunities for youth to achieve successful futures.
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) http://www.nichcy.org
NICHCY serves as a central source for information on disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth, IDEA, which is (the law authorizing special education), No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and research-based information on effective educational practice.
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TA Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
http://www.tapartnership.org
The mission of the TA Partnership is to support communities in their efforts to successfully develop and implement local systems of care. They assist with developing a broad array of community-based, strength-based services to improve outcomes for children with serious emotional disturbance through Resource Specialists, Regional Technical Assistance Coordinators , Consultant Pool , Team Learning Centers , Meetings, Learning Opportunities, and Web site.
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National Youth Leadership Network
http://www.nyln.org
The National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) is dedicated to advancing the next generation of disability leaders through promoting leadership development, education, employment, independent living, and health and wellness among young leaders representing the diversity of race, ethnicity and disability in the United States .
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Healthy and Ready to Work
http://www.hrtw.org
Success in the classroom, within the community, and on the job requires that young people with special health care needs stay healthy. To stay healthy, young people need an understanding of their health and to participate in their health care decisions. Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW) focuses on understanding systems, access to quality health care, and increasing the involvement of youth. It also includes provider preparation plus tools and resources to help youth to make more informed choices!
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Kids As Self Advocates
http://www.fvkasa.org
Kids As Self Advocates (KASA) is an organization created by youth with disabilities for youth to educate society about issues concerning youth with a wide spectrum of disabilities and special healthcare needs on topics such as health care transition issues, education, employment, and others.
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National Resource Center for Youth Services
http://www.nrcys.ou.edu
Housed at the University of Oklahoma , the National Resource Center for Youth Services is tasked with enhancing the quality of life of our nation's youth and their families by improving the effectiveness of human services. For more then twenty-five years, NRCYS has been a resource for the youth services community, providing training and technical assistance to programs in Oklahoma and nationally.
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National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice
http://www.edjj.org
EDJJ examines the overrepresentation of youth with disabilities at-risk for contact with the courts or already involved in the juvenile delinquency system. They provide professional development and technical assistance, conduct research and disseminate resources in three areas of national significance: prevention of school failure and delinquency, education and special education for detained and committed youth, and transition services for youth returning to schools and communities.
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National Center on Youth Law (NCYL)
http://www.youthlaw.org
The National Center for Youth Law is a non-profit organization that uses the law to improve the lives of poor children. NCYL works to ensure these children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future. Their work is focused on safety, stability, and well-being of abused and neglected children, quality health and mental health care, successful transitions to adulthood for at-risk youth, and financial stability for low-income families and children.
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National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO)
http://psocenter.org
The National PSO Center develops practical, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable strategies for collecting and using data to improve secondary, transition, and post-secondary outcomes for youth with disabilities and identifies state needs and provides technical assistance that will result in improved systems for post-school outcome data collection and use.
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The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org
T he Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development connects thinkers and leaders of all ages to develop fresh ideas, forge new partnerships, and design strategies that engage young people and their communities. They use what they learn from community organizations to inform research, funding, and policy. Their mission is to connect people and ideas to create change by turning theoretical knowledge into practical know-how to help innovative programs become strong, sustainable ventures.
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The Forum for Youth Investment
http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/
The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping communities and the nation make sure all young people are Ready by 21 T - ready for college, work and life. This goal requires that young people have the supports, opportunities and services needed to prosper and contribute where they live, learn, work, play and make a difference. The Forum provides youth and adult leaders with the information, technical assistance, training, network support and partnership opportunities needed to increase the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement.
Other Centers:
National Center on Workforce and Disability for Adult (NCWD/Adult)
http://www.onestops.info
NCWD/A provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for all in the workforce development system through designing access for all, accommodations & assistive technology, developing employer relationships, helping customers find jobs, job-related support, legal requirements & guidelines, partnerships & funding, disability policy, and marketing & outreach.
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JAN (Job Accommodation Network)
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/
JAN is a service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the U.S. Department of Labor. JAN's mission is to facilitate the employment and retention of workers with disabilities by providing employers, employment providers, people with disabilities, their family members and other interested parties with information on job accommodations, self-employment and small business opportunities and related subjects.
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Training and Technical Assistance for Providers (T-TAP)
http://www.t-tap.org
T-TAP is a national technical assistance and training effort designed to increase the capacity of Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRPs) and other community-based service providers that currently operate programs that result in segregated work outcomes and non-work options for people with disabilities in the "Special Minimum Wage" program established under section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 214(c).
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Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network (EARN)
http://www.earnworks.com
EARN is a free service that connects employers looking for quality employees with skilled job candidates. This web site is your one-stop source for disability employment information including recruiting services, tools and resources, employer success stories, and a business case for hiring people with disabilities.
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Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance (CHETA)
http://www.csh.org
CHETA a ims to strengthen customized employment and permanent housing services so that chronically homeless people with disabilities may live, work, and fully participate in their communities through projects in San Francisco , Indianapolis , Los Angeles , Boston , and Portland .
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