Live.WORK.Achieve
A Listserv for the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment
for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Including Intellectual Disabilities Project
April 2014
Welcome to Live.WORK.Achieve, a monthly e-newsletter targeting anyone interested in and supportive of employment for youth and young adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Live.WORK.Achieve is offered through the Institute for Disability Studies in collaboration with the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities and Disability Rights Mississippi and includes resources and information on employment and career development.
Inside this edition:
1) Free Self-Advocacy Webinar – Apr. 24
2) Open Position: 2014 Youth Transitions Fellowship – Application Deadline, Apr. 18
3) Carley Honored for Advocacy Work
4) Why Disability Simulations Don’t Work
5) Special Olympics Releases Research on Employment and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
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1) Free Self-Advocacy Webinar – Apr. 24
The Advocacy TEAM Mississippi Project and the Mississippi Self-Advocacy Team are co-sponsoring a free webinar on April 24, from 10 – 10:30 a.m. This webinar will reinforce why young people with disabilities need to learn how to share their voice and become true self-advocates. State and national resources available to help young people take charge of their lives will be discussed. The speaker will be Cynthia “Cindy” A. Singletary, a self-advocate who collaborates with organizations throughout Mississippi and the nation. These collaborations include work in self-advocacy, disability rights and transition of youth with disabilities. To register, go to http://www.usm.edu/disability-studies/ateamm-overview or contact Dr. Jerry R. Alliston at 1.601.266.5979 or jerry.alliston@usm.edu.
2) Open Position: 2014 Youth Transitions Fellowship – Application Deadline, Apr. 18
The HSC Foundation, in partnership with the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), is now accepting applications for a paid fellowship position with the organization’s disability youth transition and collaboration work based in the Greater Washington, DC area. This fellowship is ideal for a person with a disability who has an interest in youth career transitions and employment solutions. The fellowship starts in June 2014, and continues for 12 months. Applications must be received by NCIL before 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, on Friday, April 18. For more information, visit http://www.ncil.org/jobs/2014-youth-transitions-fellowship-ytf/.
3) Carley Honored for Advocacy Work
In February, Taylor Carley, 20, of Hattiesburg, received the first Breaking Barriers Award presented by the Mississippi Department of Education’s Special Education Advisory Panel at a ceremony at the Jackson Convention Center. Taylor, who works at the fuel center at Sam’s Club in Hattiesburg, was recognized for his advocacy work. A 2011 Sumrall High School graduate, Taylor is co-president of the Southern Miss Step Up Council, a student organization that assists young people with disabilities in transitioning to adulthood. The Hattiesburg American published an article about Taylor on March 28. To view the article, visit http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014303290014&nclick_check=1.
4) Why Disability Simulations Don’t Work
An article written by Paula Sotnik, a project director at the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston, discusses the disability-awareness training technique of having people without disabilities take on the disability experience (for example, through wearing a blindfold or using a wheelchair). Sotnik explains that these activities, while intended to raise awareness about the experiences of people with disabilities, actually increase stigma and exclusion. Research has shown no positive results from these techniques, yet this “disability simulation” approach is still commonly used in training. Sotnik is also featured on a radio episode on the disability employment site Out of Step. Read the article here http://www.outofstep.com/articles/toost-radio/simulating-disability-in-training-does-it-work/. Listen to the radio show here http://www.outofstep.com/toost-radio/episodes/episode-4-debating-disability-simulation/.
5) Special Olympics Releases Research on Employment and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Special Olympics has released a research paper representing the first-ever nationally-representative data set on the employment situation for adults with intellectual disabilities. The National Snapshot of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in the Labor Force was commissioned by Special Olympics, conducted by the Center for Social Development and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and administered by Gallup. Findings show that unemployment among people with intellectual disabilities is more than twice as high as for the general population. However, for those who are employed, most experience job stability, want to work, and have proven that they are capable of being employed. For a copy of the report, visit http://www.specialolympics.org/uploadedFiles/Sections/What_We_Do/Research_Studies_Description_Pages/Siperstein-Parker-Drascher-JVR-National-snapshot.pdf.
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Live.WORK.Achieve is sponsored by the Mississippi Partnerships for Employment (MSPE) for Youth and Young Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Including Intellectual Disabilities project. MSPE is funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is managed by the Mississippi Council on Developmental Disabilities (MS CDD), Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) and The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS).
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