Advocating Change Together:Advocating Change Together (ACT) is a grassroots disability rights organization run by and for people with developmental and other disabilities. ACT's mission is to help people across disabilities to see themselves as part of a larger disability rights movement and make connections to other civil and human rights struggles. ACT distributes tools and materials that help individuals and groups promote self-advocacy in their lives and work. http://www.selfadvocacy.com
AmeriCorps Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for adults of all ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups. http://www.americorps.org/Default.asp
Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) AHEAD is “the premiere professional association committed to full participation of persons with disabilities in postsecondary education”. http://www.ahead.org/
Building Effective Youth Councils: A Practical Guide to Engaging Youth in Policy Making This guide, developed by the Forum for Youth Investment (www.forumforyouthinvestment.org), is designed to help states and localities create or strengthen their own youth councils. It is a synthesis of theory and practice that provides a general framework for thinking about youth councils, explaining the principles for youth action, and the importance of youth engagement. It also incorporates advice and lessons from people in the field who have started or currently staff youth councils across the country. http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/node/127
Campus Mental Health: Know Your Rights!
A new guide offers assistance to college and university students who want to
seek help for mental illness or emotional distress. Campus Mental Health: Know
Your Rights!, is available online. The guide offers information to help students find and use mental health resources on campus and safeguard their rights. http://www.bazelon.org/l21/rightsguide.htm
Disaboom.com offers information, discussions, news, and reviews on health, living, the media, recreation, and careers. Disaboom.com also offers chat rooms and multiple discussion areas. http://www.disaboom.com/
Diversity World has a career development webpage with a list of career and leadership development resources, and scholarships and internships for students with disabilities. http://www.diversityworld.com/Disability/career.htm
Emma, Youth Leadership Project Participant, speaks about the power of young people to a crowd of over 1,000 including 300 youth at the Cranbrook Peace Foundation's 19th Annual Lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3dqIoeK5Y
Employment and Training Youth Office, U.S. Department of Labor This website has resources, program profiles, reports and publications, and a link to the Youth Rules! Web site. http://www.doleta.gov/youth_services
Heath Resource Center National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities run by George Washington University. The Clearinghouse has information for students with disabilities on educational disability support services, policies, procedures, adaptations, accessing college or university campuses, career-technical schools, and other postsecondary training entities. They have information on financial assistance, scholarships, and materials that help students with disabilities transition into college, university, career-technical schools, or other postsecondary programs. www.heath.gwu.edu/
National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD/) serves as a national youth-led information, training, and resource center. NCLD/Y has a four-pronged focus on working on developing leaders, developing the capacity of centers for independent living to serve those leaders, the capacity of the staff working directly with the leaders, and supporting the cadre of youth with disabilities-related organizations. http://www.ncld-youth.info/index.htm
National Youth Leadership Network NYLN’s mission is to promote youth leadership and education. The national voice for young leaders with disabilities. We teach young people how to advocate. Our goal is to make sure that young people with disabilities have the chance to set and reach their own goals. http://nyln.org/index.html
National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability for Youth Many resources and publications on education and employment. http://www.ncwd-youth.info/
National Center for Learning Disabilities Has a section on Education Choices: http://www.ncld.org/content/view/357/344/ See especially the Parent Advocacy Brief “Transition to College: Strategic Planning to Ensure Success for Students with Learning Disabilities”. http://www.ncld.org/images/stories/downloads/parent_center/transition_to_college.pdf
National Teen Leadership Program NTLP is a high-energy, 3-day program designed to motivate and inspire students to consider positions of leadership. The NTLP Weekend includes: Three (3) exceptional, motivational speakers . Four (4) outstanding and fun workshops. Numerous interactive, small-group sessions. A challenging, teambuilding low ROPES course. A business interview with local professionals. Dorm accommodations at CSU Sacramento! All meals and late-night snacks! An opening night show, featuring the amazing Hypnotist, Paul Parsons. A late-night DJ dance. Extraordinary students from around the nation. NTLP is open to ALL students in grades 9 – 12, including incoming freshman and outgoing seniors. http://www.teenleader.org/
National Service Inclusion Project The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) promotes the active engagement of people with disabilities as service members in all levels of national and community service. http://www.serviceandinclusion.org
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve youth with disabilities. The NCWD/Youth is composed of partners with expertise in disability, education, employment, and workforce development issues. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the NCWD/Youth is housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership. http://www.ncwd-youth.info
National Youth Employment Coalition The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) is a non-partisan national organization dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens. This site contains information on legislation, best practices, and leadership development, as well as a variety of projects and initiatives. http://www.nyec.org
NH Department of Education http://www.ed.state.nh.us/education/ Main office (603)-271-3494 Special Education On-Call Consultant (603)-271-3741
NH Leadership Series: The UNH Institute on Disability leadership series provides participants with state-of-the-art information and strategies to effectively impact local and state organizations on issues related to individuals with disabilities. www.nhleadership.org
NH Parent Information Center PIC provides information, support, and educational programs for family members, educators, and the community. PIC is a pioneer in promoting effective parent involvement in the special education process. www.parentinformationcenter.org
(SABE) strives to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and that they are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves. http://www.sabeusa.org
Transition Coalition University of Kansas Providing online information, support, and professional development on topics related to the transition from school to adult life for youth with disabilities. http://transitioncoalition.org/transition/index.php
US Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights OCR publication "
US Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy http://www.dol.gov/odep/categories/youth/career.htm Includes information on youth and career preparation and work-based learning experiences:
Volunteer NH Includes information on NH Americorps. Contact Tim Dupre timdupre@volunteernh.org, http://www.volunteernh.org/html/home.htm
Youthleadership.com An online information center for youth leadership education and development. For teachers, parents, kids, and teens. While visiting, you can gather ideas, find out more about youth leadership, discover links and resources to programs around the world, and explore leadership topics that address kids and youth leading. http://www.youthleadership.com/
Youth Information, Training and Resource Centers (YITRC) grants are funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD). The goal of the YITRC grants is to support an increasing ability of individuals with developmental disabilities to exercise greater choice, self-determination and to engage in leadership activities in their communities.http://www.addyic.org/
Youthhood Youthhood is a Web site for youths that provides a fun and engaging way to remind students with disabilities that they are not alone as they explore community and build a future. Youthhood provides resources and information. http://www.youthhood.org
Youth Sharing Their Success Strategies The New England ADA Center and No Limits Media have released informative videos featuring students with disabilities sharing their strategies for successfully staying in school, graduating and getting jobs. Students reveal their struggles with self-reporting their disability, and negotiating accommodations in school and at work. These videos can be used as part of trainings (each video lasts for 7-9 minutes) and shared with students and other professionals. The videos are open captioned and can be viewed at the above Web site. http://adaptiveenvironments.org/neada/site/student