State: Florida

Florida DOE Modified Occupational Completion Points

Florida Department of Education Modified Occupational Completion Points

“MOCPs are selected sets of student performance standards that fall between established OCPs as identified in CTE course descriptions. These selected standards (identified on an individual basis) guide the student in completing a modified program and developing marketable skills. Modifying OCPs for students with disabilities has increased the number of secondary students participating in and successfully completing regular job preparatory programs”

Links:

Florida DOE Modified Occupational Completion Points (PDF)

Florida Statutes 1004.6495: Postsecondary Transition Program (2016)

Florida Postsecondary Comprehensive Transition Program and Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities

“The purpose of this section is to increase independent living, inclusive and experiential postsecondary education, and employment opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities through degree, certificate, or nondegree programs and to establish statewide coordination of the dissemination of information regarding programs and services for students with disabilities. It is the intent of the Legislature that students with intellectual disabilities and students with disabilities have access to meaningful postsecondary education credentials and be afforded the opportunity to have a meaningful campus experience.”

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Florida Statutes 1004.6495: Text

Florida Statutes 1003.5716: Transition to postsecondary education and career opportunities (2016)

”To ensure quality planning for a successful transition of a student with a disability to postsecondary education and career opportunities, an IEP team shall begin the process of, and develop an IEP for, identifying the need for transition services before the student with a disability attains the age of 14 years in order for his or her postsecondary goals and career goals to be identified and in place when he or she attains the age of 16 years.”

Links:

Florida Statutes 1003.5716: Text

Florida DOE Program Accessibility Plan

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity “Program Accessibility Plan”

“Obligations to Individuals with Disabilities
To ensure access for individuals with disabilities DEO is obligated to ensure accessibility and provide accessible notice and information about alternative means of receiving services for individuals who need them. This allows disabled individuals to be effectively informed about and able to meaningfully access the aid, benefit, service, or training provided by DEO.”

Links:

Florida DOE Program Accessibility Plan (PDF)

Florida Veterans Employment Program Services

“The Veterans Employment Program promotes the employment of Florida’s veterans, especially veterans with barriers to employment…

Disabled Veterans Outreach Program specialists and Local Veterans Employment Representatives at the CareerSource Florida centers provide priority workforce services to veteran customers. Disabled Veterans Outreach Program specialists focus on intensive case management services for veterans with barriers to employment, particularly disabled veterans.

Local Veterans Employment Representatives build relationships with employers and engage in advocacy efforts with hiring executives and managers to increase employment opportunities for veterans.  They are also responsible for ensuring that veterans receive the full range of priority workforce services in the CareerSource Florida centers, and they oversee the CareerSource Florida centers Veterans Workforce Program and service delivery strategies for services targeting veterans.”

Links:

Florida Veterans Employment Program Services

Florida SB 366: Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment (2021)

Version date: 7/1/21

“Educational Opportunities Leading to Employment; Renaming the Florida Ready to Work Certification Program as the Florida Ready to Work Credential Program; providing where the program training may be conducted; requiring that certain students be covered by the workers’ compensation insurance of their employers in a work-based learning opportunity; requiring admissions counseling to use certain tests or alternative methods to measure achievement of college-level communication and computation by students entering college programs, etc.”

Links:

Florida SB 366: Summary
Florida SB 366: Bill Text

Florida SB 714: Resource information for individuals with disabilities (2021)

Version date: 6/16/21

“An act relating to resource information for individuals with disabilities; amending s. 393.065, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to provide specified information to persons applying for certain waiver services; requiring the agency to provide a certain disclosure statement along with such information; requiring the agency to publish such information and statement on its website and provide such information and statement to certain persons annually; providing an effective date…

Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.”

Links:

Florida SB 714: Bill Text (PDF)

Florida HB 173: Individual education plan requirements for students with disabilities (2021)

Enacted. Version date: 6/21/21

“Summary: Relates to individual education plan requirements for students with disabilities, revises timeline for development and implementation of individual education plan (IEP) for transition services for student with disabilities to postsecondary education and career opportunities, revises requirements for IEP for transitions to postsecondary education and career opportunities.”

This summary was retrieved from National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) in April 2022.

Links:

Florida HB 173: Bill Text

Florida HB 19: Individual Education Plans (2023)

“An Act relating to individual education plans; amending s. 1003.5716, F.S.; requiring individual education plans for certain students to contain information and instruction on certain legal rights and responsibilities that transfer to students at the age of 18; requiring such information to include ways in which a student may provide informed consent to allow his or her parent to continue to participate in his or her educational decisions; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt rules; providing an effective date.”

Links:

Florida HB 19: Bill Text

Florida: The ABLE Trust, Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities (2023)

“During the 2023 session, the Florida Legislature tasked The Able Trust with evaluating the systems in the state which provide services to persons with disabilities, to make recommendations for strengthening the statewide, coordinated services system, and identify systemic barriers to meaningful employment and economic independence for Floridians with disabilities. This report examines various factors that influence the employment prospects of persons with disabilities.”

Links:

Florida: The ABLE Trust, Maximizing Employment for People with Disabilities (2023,PDF)
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