California Employment Consortium for Youth and Young Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CECY)
“(CECY) is a collaboration of 23 state agencies, centers, and organizations, families, and self-advocates with responsibilities for the education, rehabilitation, employment, and support of youth with disabilities. CECY is a five-year (2011-2016) Project of National Significance Partnerships in Employment Systems Change grant (#90DN0284) by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD). The Tarjan Center at UCLA, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, provides its administrative leadership.“
Requires the California Department of Health and Human Services Agency and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, using existing resources, to create “a sustainable, comprehensive strategy to accomplish various goals aimed at bringing persons with disabilities into employment,” including ensuring that state government is a model employer of individuals with disabilities.
California Unemployment Insurance Code §§18000 et seq.
Requires each local workforce investment board to establish at least one comprehensive one-stop career center that includes accessible services for people with disabilities.
Resources for Independence, Central Valley, Self Advocacy for Youth
"We provide a foundation of core consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability and person-focused services. From work readiness to assistive technology training, and much more–RICV is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Through strategic programs and services, our team strives to empower persons with disabilities achieve maximum potential."
The Community of Practice (COP) is located within the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and was formed and funded by the DOE to help improve transition and employment outcomes. This is a voluntary group of educational professionals.
The COP seeks to ensure the seamless transition of services for youth, ages 16 –22, which will lead to positive post-school outcomes. They carry out their work through a statewide community of practice and a statewide list serve,which disseminates compliance information, resources and evidence-based practices and statewide technical assistance through webinars and conference calls. Their key goal, with respect to employment ,is integrated ,competitive employment in any area of interest for each individual youth, ages 16-22.
California San Francisco Community Living Support Benefit (0855.R00.00)
Provides care coordination, community living support benefit in licensed settings, behavior assessment and planning, community living support benefit in housing sites, enhanced care coordination, environmental accessibility adaptations, home delivered meals for aged individuals ages 65 – no max age, physical and other disabilities ages 21-64
The website includes amendments to the California State Plan that were recently approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Stakeholders can update their copies by following the links and instructions attached to the documents.
The Glenn County Office of Education/Glenn Adult Program “The Rusty Wagon Adult Vocational Program”
"Our Mission is to provide adults with disabilities a place in our community to learn, work and thrive. Our training store features local foods, goods and unique artisan products as well as a shopping experience, with superb customer service provided by our associates."
California SSA PROMISE Initiative, Lessons Learned (2019)
“The overall goal of the California Initiative to Promote the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (CaPROMISE) was to increase the self-sufficiency for youth receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and their families.
The California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) in collaboration with five State agencies, 20 Local Education Agencies (LEAs), 16 Family Resource Centers (FRCs), four Independent Living Centers (ILCs), five university programs in rehabilitation education and the Interwork Institute at San Diego State University (SDSU-II) administered and implemented CaPROMISE from October 2013 to June 2019.
3,273 youth who were current SSI recipients between the ages of 14 and 16 were randomly assigned to the Usual Services Group (n=1,627) or the CaPROMISE group (n=1,646). Participants in the Usual Services Group did not receive individualized support and interventions; whereas, participants in the CaPROMISE Group and their families received individualized support and interventions to achieve targeted outcomes including: graduating from high school; participating in and completing postsecondary education, job training and work experiences; and/or obtaining competitive employment in an integrated setting.”
CA State Council on Developmental Disabilities Employment First Committee Annual Report
The second annual report of the Employment First Committee (EFC) of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities includes: priorities adopted by the State Council as recommended by the EFC; second-year work of the EFC, interagency activities, and policy activities; the current status of the employment of individuals with developmental disabilities; and next steps for the EFC.
