NCLD-Youth Publications
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NCLD-Youth Information Briefs
Guide Posts for Success
The Guideposts for Success provide resources which can help steer families, institutions and youth themselves through the transition processes.
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Disability History Timeline: Resource and Discussion Guide
This guide is designed to assist youth with and without disabilities to learn about the rich history of people with disabilities. Although designed primarily for youth and emerging leaders with disabilities, the guide can be used in multiple ways to educate a broader audience as well. Starting shortly before the United States was founded, the guide features examples of the remarkable diversity, creativity, and leadership that have shaped the disability community and American culture. Included is an interactive activity for use with groups to demonstrate societal and statutory events that have contributed to and continue to contribute to the true integration of people with disabilities in society. This guide is a new resource for the growing national movement to have disability history taught in the public schools and community-based organizations.
Read the timeline:
Other Publications
Our team has compiled a list of useful documents and other publication from our friends and partner organizations:
Nothing About Youth with Disabilities
Without Youth with Disabilities: A Guide to Legislative Advocacy
A major focus of NCLD/Y’s work incorporates the celebration of disability
history as part of America’s
history. As a result NCLD/Y is pleased to be the technical assistance center
working with youth-led coalitions around the country, working to have
disability history and awareness integrated as part of K-12 public education
for all students. To date, five state laws have passed (WV, ID, NC, WA, and FL)
with many more to come. This Guide is a result of the work we’ve done in
preparing youth with disabilities, in those five states and beyond, to be effective
legislative advocates and to create policy change on the local, state, and
national level.
Users of this guide will learn
- How to determine a good issue
- How to create an effective strategy for change;
- How to decide what type of campaigns is most useful;
and,
- How to build and sustain relationships with people in
power, in position to enact the change you want!
Download A Guide To Legislative Advocacy:
Disability History and Identity Self-Assessment and Answer Key
One of the major challenges reported from the field was that the IL community largely isn't aware of what youth with disabilities know about our movement or how they feel about their disability. Before now there wasn't a short and easy "pop-quiz" that could be used as a teaching tool to be a first step in exposing the next generation of leaders in our community to stories like the signing of Section 504, the rise of the self-advocacy movement, or heroes with disabilities such as Ed Roberts, Justin Dart, or Judith Heumann. Based off of feedback from IL staff, this self-assessment was adapted to include a short section where a young person could discuss their own personal experience with identifying how they feel about their disability, and they feel about societal expectations and stigmas they deal with on a daily basis. Grounded in the five areas of youth development and leadership, this tool is not only sure to be an enjoyable exercise for the youth in your program, but also adult staff!
Learning to Lead?: A Self-Assessment for Youth, and Are They Learning to Lead?: A Self-Assessment for Staff.
First document, focusing on the needs of youth with disabilities, intends to help an emerging leader look at how they're growing in terms of achieving outcomes identified in the field of youth development and leadership in the five areas of learning, connecting, thriving, working and leading. The second document focuses on giving staff of youth development and leadership programs an opportunity to evaluate how their program is helping youth achieve outcomes in these research-based areas. Together, these two publications are very content rich resources for those of us working to improve youth development and leadership experiences for youth with disabilities in both generic, and disability specific programming.
Read Am I Learning To Lead?:
Read Are They Learning To Lead?:
Healthy Relationships and Safe Sex
Have you dreamed of falling in love? Have you thought about getting married? Wanted a boyfriend or girlfriend? Have you wondered what sex was all about? Have you been scared to have sex with someone you love? The Healthy Relationships and Safe Sex - Tips for SelfAdvocates handbook will teach you how to have healthy friendships, romantic relationships and safe sex. This handbook is written by Joe Meadours, an accomplished self-advocate from Alabama. NCLD/Youth helped in reviewing this document and we think it’s a great publication. For more info:
http://www.hsri.org/leaders/theriot/joeorderform.pdf
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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.
Depression & Disability, (http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/depression.pdf), addresses depression for people with disabilities and how to deal with it.
The Health Promotion Resource Guide(http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/healthpromotionguide.pdf), is a listing of health promotion resources relevant to people with disabilities, but not necessarily for pwd. Some topics referenced are physical activity, health access, nutrition, sexuality & relationships, and mental health.
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