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  • Special-needs students are college-bound: UCCS graduates first class in May

    January 12, 2020 |

    Colorado Springs Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    An inclusion program established by lawmakers in Colorado allows intellectually disabled students to attend their choice of several colleges throughout the state. Mentors and staff help guide students through their years in school, and standard measures of success like entrance exam scores are replaced with staff evaluations.

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  • In Germany, How To Teach Empathy For The Disabled

    January 06, 2020 |

    Folks |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Using role-playing techniques, a new program places future health workers in the shoes of people who face accessibility barriers. The program is intended to show students how simple tasks like going to the grocery store can be very challenging.

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  • What School Could Be If It Were Designed for Kids With Autism

    December 30, 2019 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York University and the New York City Department of Education are training elementary school teachers to use visual cues and other tools to teach students with autism spectrum disorder. The approach is unique for its emphasis on social skills in addition to academic lessons.

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  • How Washington colleges are opening their doors to adults with intellectual disabilities

    December 28, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Students with intellectual disabilities often have limited options when it comes to pursuing post-secondary education. Washington State University is the first college in the state to offer students the opportunity to live independently on campus. Residents aged 18-29 can audit university courses, complete internships, and take a variety of life skills classes.

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  • Why students with disabilities are going to school in classrooms that look like Staples and CVS

    December 18, 2019 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A Brooklyn school for students with cognitive disabilities or special emotional needs combines in-class instruction with "learning labs" that prepare students for work in stores and other work environments. Some critics worry that the school, which serves mostly minority students, funnels students into lower-paying jobs.

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  • One Bay Area organization found a radical and surprisingly simple approach to helping former prisoners start over

    December 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Homecoming Project pays homeowners to rent their spare bedrooms to people just released from long prison sentences, providing welcoming, free, stable housing option to people whose re-entry is often hamstrung by housing instability and grim, restrictive halfway houses. Only 12 formerly incarcerated people were served in the project’s first year, but the service providing its clients with six months of housing hopes to serve as a pilot for other organizations outside the Bay Area. All 12 have jobs and six have gone on to live independently.

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  • King County may borrow an idea from Australia to reduce youth homelessness. Readers wanted to know: How much does it cost?

    November 16, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, a universal survey in several secondary schools helps to identify students who are at risk of becoming homeless and connects them with wraparound services. The prevention-based model may soon be piloted in King County, Washington.

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  • This Wyoming Greenhouse is a Place for Employees with Disabilities to Grow

    November 08, 2019 |

    Bitterroot |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    A company called Vertical Harvest in Jackson, Wyoming employs people with developmental and physical disabilities to work in their 3-story greenhouse to address the exclusion of people with disabilities in the labor pool. Vertical Harvest, which offers positions growing and handling local produce, acts as both a safe space and source of income for employees, following a trend to open employment opportunities to often overlooked populations.

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  • Rock-a-Bye Mama

    November 07, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Past and present traumas can make it difficult for new mothers to bond with their babies. A program at Carnegie Hall uses songwriting and music to support mothers in this process in prisons, intensive care units, high schools, and other places.

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  • Ending Domestic Violence Requires Working With Those Who Harm, Too

    October 30, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Healing Together Campaign, created by the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, operates at the national and local levels to disrupt patterns of intimate partner violence. Rather than solely work with victims, though, they aim to spark behavioral and cultural shifts in the abuser. At a national level, they bring together over 200 organizations in a collaboration that executes research and policy recommendations. At the local level, they provide their member organizations – who each operate unique to their communities’ needs – with resources and outreach to strengthen their programming.

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