Position Overview: The Community Outreach Specialist is a 20-hour a week grant-funded position that will provide energy and enthusiasm in both development and delivery of services for diverse families and communities statewide. Qualifications/ Requirements: Demonstrated commitment to inclusively serving and working with communities and families from a diversity of background and experiences, and sensitivity needed to [...]
In this 20-minute module, families will learn: What Extended School Year (ESY) services are Why a child might need ESY services ESY services available beyond the summer break How to have a conversation with the IEP Team about what your child’s program could look like Use the [...]
UNH-4U is a secondary education option for students with intellectual disabilities to have the ability to reach their life and career goals. This option allows students to experience college life with peers without disabilities. Join Ariel Schwartz as she explains what UNH-4U and Bridges are all about. She will share how you can connect your [...]
The NH Bureau of Special Education Supports has issued an updated Special Education Procedural Safeguards Handbook for districts to provide parents of children with disabilities. This handbook has adopted the federal template while also including NH-specific information. Procedural Safeguards are designed to protect the rights of parents and their children with a disability and, at the same [...]
A recent Gallup Poll conducted in partnership with the NH Learning Initiative revealed that NH students who engage in career-connected learning experiences feel more hopeful about their future and engage more at school. For every additional career-connected learning experience a student has, those hope and engagement scores increase exponentially. In this presentation and chat Co-Founders of [...]
New Hampshire recently passed a law to help foster civic engagement and voting rights for students in transition. Watch this presentation from James Ziegra, Staff Attorney for the Disability Rights Center of NH, to learn about the new changes and how to encourage your youth and their teams to support their right to vote. After watching [...]
This Tool Kit is designed to help families and youth learn about the transition planning process for youth who have an Individualized Education Program (IEP). It provides an overview of the laws relating to transition and best practices. The information in this Tool Kit will help families and youth better collaborate with the schools to [...]
This module will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on what Post Secondary Transition is and how youth with disabilities and their families can be involved in the process. After you are done watching, check out Module 2: Transition Planning Components.
Module 2 will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on what each transition component means, how they work together, when they are required, and how youth with disabilities and their families can be involved in the process. After you have finished watching, check out Module 3: Tying it All Together. [...]
Module three will inform students, families, and the staff that support them on how to bring the information in modules one and two together and understand how transition planning components inform annual goals and other important transition related considerations. Please fill out a brief evaluation to tell us how we [...]
