Research to Practice: Time Limits, Exemption, and Disclosure: TANF Caseworkers and Clients with Disabilities

Findings show that welfare caseworkers experience unique challenges when supporting welfare recipients with disabilities, including time limit pressures and conflict over exemptions. The brief includes a resource list for caseworkers

Tools for Inclusion: From Stress to Success: Making Social Security Work for Your Young Adult

How does receiving Social Security affect families as their children move into adulthood? This brief shares families\u27 experiences and suggests ways that families can manage SSI and use it to help a young adult prepare for their career

Institute Brief: More Than Just a Job: Person-Centered Career Planning

Sometimes counselors think that person-centered career planning has to involve a big meeting, or is only for people with the most significant disabilities. The first issue in the new ICI Professional Development Series lays out the principles of listening to job seekers to help them shape and achieve their career goals

Research to Practice: National Day and Employment Service Trends in MR/DD Agencies

To what extent have changes in philosophy translated into changes for state agencies and the people they serve? This brief analyzes MR/DD agencies\u27 day and employment service trends from 1988 to 1999 and discusses relevant trends in policy and legislation

Research to Practice: Self-Determination and Struggle in the Lives of Adolescents

As students of all ability levels move into adulthood, they seek to define themselves and develop goals for the future. This study identifies four categories of students and offering targeted suggestions for support

Tools for Inclusion: Making Dreams a Reality: Using Personal Networks to Achieve Goals as You Prepare to Leave High School

Leaving high school can be both exciting and stressful. This brief tells the stories of students who used their personal networks to exercise self-determination and follow their goals, and includes worksheets for students to build and use their own networks

Research to Practice: Time Limits, Exemption, and Disclosure: TANF Caseworkers and Clients with Disabilities

Findings show that welfare caseworkers experience unique challenges when supporting welfare recipients with disabilities, including time limit pressures and conflict over exemptions. The brief includes a resource list for caseworkers

Tools for Inclusion: From Stress to Success: Making Social Security Work for Your Young Adult

How does receiving Social Security affect families as their children move into adulthood? This brief shares families\u27 experiences and suggests ways that families can manage SSI and use it to help a young adult prepare for their career

Research to Practice: National Day and Employment Service Trends in MR/DD Agencies

To what extent have changes in philosophy translated into changes for state agencies and the people they serve? This brief analyzes MR/DD agencies\u27 day and employment service trends from 1988 to 1999 and discusses relevant trends in policy and legislation

Tools for Inclusion: Making Dreams a Reality: Using Personal Networks to Achieve Goals as You Prepare to Leave High School

Leaving high school can be both exciting and stressful. This brief tells the stories of students who used their personal networks to exercise self-determination and follow their goals, and includes worksheets for students to build and use their own networks