New TransCen Products and Publications
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Cross Cultural Field Exhcange as a Rehabilitation Professional Development Experience. by Rich Luecking, Lisa Cuozzo, Claudia McInerney, Sylvia Helena Moraes Cury, and Mariana Cristina B.C. Lorca, for the Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Fall 2007, Volume 38, Number 3.

Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities by Debra Hart, Meg Grigal, Caren sax, Donna Martinez, and Madeleine Will, for the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)

This Research to Practice publication provides an overview of research on postsecondary education and options, with a bibliography and recommendations for improving access to college.

Facilitating Employer Engagement among WIB Partners: A Role for Intermediaries by Richard Luecking and Marianne Mooney, for the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)

This brief focuses on how Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) can ensure strong business leadership roles in their state and local workforce systems by creating and fostering intermediaries that effectively link employers with One-Stops and their partners. Strategies and examples are shared that illustrate how intermediaries can facilitate, coordinate, and streamline employer engagement responsibilities among WIB partners.

Blending and Braiding Funds and Resources: The Intermediary as Facilitator by Marianne Mooney and Richard Luecking, for the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)

This brief focuses on how intermediary organizations can facilitate the blending and braiding of funds and resources to encourage cross-systems collaboration and, in turn, to improve the educational and employment outcomes for all youth, including those with disabilities. This brief identifies strategies that states can use to support local communities in the "blending" and "braiding" of resources, and outlines how cross-systems collaboration and alternative funding strategies can be facilitated by intermediary organizations.

Workforce Discovery: Diversity and Disability in the Workplace is an in-depth training on disability awareness with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) integrated throughout each training module.

The five modules focus on the following areas:

• Module 1: Typecasting: Understanding Disability
• Module 2: Legal Implications: An Overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Module 3: Reasonable Accommodation
• Module 4: Etiquette: Communication and Interaction
• Module 5: Best Practices for Trainers

The 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities by TransCen, Inc. for the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, and the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy.

This publication is designed for youth and adults working with them to learn about disability disclosure. It will help young people make informed decisions about whether or not to disclose their disability and understand how that decision may impact their education, employment, and social lives. Based on the premise that disclosure is a very personal decision, the Workbook will help young people think about and practice disclosing their disability.

Transition Planning: Community Mapping as a Tool for Teachers and Students by Kate Tindle, Pam Leconte, LaVerne Buchanan, and Juliana M. Taymans, for the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET).

Community mapping can acquaint teachers and students with a community's culture, resources, transition needs, and assets. This Research-to-Practice brief describes the research base for community mapping, and provides an outline of the roles, responsibilities, and materials involved in the community mapping process. It also provides examples and further resources for engaging in community resource mapping.

Luecking, R.G., Fabian, E.S., & Tilson, G.P. (2004). Working relationships: Creating career opportunities for job seekers with disabilities through employer partnerships. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.

All businesses have needs. People with disabilities have the skills and desire to work. As employment specialists work to match employers with job seekers, they need to do more than understand the job seekers' personal and professional goals -- they also need to know exactly what the employers are looking for. That's what Working Relationships is about: securing satisfying jobs for people with disabilities by fostering partnerships between employment specialists and businesses. A must-read for all employment service providers and for anyone interested in employment of people with disabilities.

Published by Brookes Publishing, Working Relationships: Creating Career Opportunities for Job Seekers with Disabilities through Employer Partnerships. can be ordered online.

(2005). Workforce Development: A Quarterly Publication of the Maryland Customized Employment Partnership, Volume 01, Issue 03.

Workforce Development is issued quarterly to present updates, findings, and implications of the Maryland Customized Employment Partnership (MCEP). The goal is to regularly feature information relevant to practitioners, funders, policy makers, advocates, and workforce development personnel.

Additionally Workforce Development features examples of customized employment in action from the perspectives of individual job seekers, MCEP partners, employers, One Stop personnel, and others involved and interested in effective employment service delivery to people with disabilities and other customers with significant barriers to employment in Maryland's One Stop system.