Examining barriers and strategies for effective professional or interagency collaboration in secondary transition

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Magee ◽  
Anthony Plotner
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
High School Outcomes ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Participant Role

BACKGROUND: For young adults with disabilities, post-high school outcomes in employment, higher education, and independent living are markedly worse than their peers without disabilities. As a result, legislation and research aimed at supporting transitioning students has increased. Further, numerous initiatives that better support youth and families have been implemented at the state and local level. Collaboration within and across service delivery systems has been identified as a critical aspect of transition planning and supports; however, evidence-based research related to the implementation and effects of collaborative partnerships is limited. OBJECTIVE: In the current study, we identify transition professionals’ perceptions of collaborative factors that facilitate and inhibit collaboration. METHOD: This study utilizes a single-state survey research design to examine the viewpoints of transition professions, specifically educators, Vocational Rehabilitation professionals, and community supports providers. RESULTS: Variance in perceptions were found among participant role groups. Specifically, educators as a whole report that time and workload barriers affect their ability to collaborate effectively. Further, findings indicate that ensuring individual collaborative team member responsibility is perceived as an effective strategy. CONCLUSIONS: These findings may be applied to technical assistance providers when developing team-level evaluations to monitor current levels and support needs of collaborative transition planning teams.

scholarly journals School Performance, Accountability, and Waiver Reforms: Evidence From Louisiana

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Dee ◽  
Elise Dizon-Ross
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
School Reforms ◽  
Performance Effects ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Differentiated Accountability ◽  
The Impact

States that receive federal waivers to the No Child Left Behind Act were required to implement reforms in designated “Focus Schools” that contribute to achievement gaps. We examine the performance effects of such “differentiated accountability” reforms in Louisiana. These Focus School reforms emphasized school-needs assessments and aligned technical assistance. These reforms may have also been uniquely high-powered because they were linked to a letter-based school-rating system. We examine the impact of these reforms in a sharp regression-discontinuity (RD) design. We find that, over each of 3 years, Louisiana’s Focus School reforms had no measurable impact on school performance. We discuss evidence that these findings reflect policy reform fatigue and poor quality of implementation at the state and local level.

The Role of School District Interagency Transition Committees Within an Overall Collaborative Structure

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Elliott ◽  
Paul A. Alberto ◽  
Susan E. Arnold ◽  
Teresa A. Taber ◽  
Marlene R. Bryar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Transition Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Transition Services ◽  
Adult Service ◽  
Students With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Collaborative Structure

Functional linkage between school and adult service agencies is an essential component of effective transition planning and service provision for students with intellectual disabilities. In order to provide effective outcome-based transition services, models for interagency cooperation were designed and written for state and local-level agencies which commit agency resources to realizing transition related outcomes. The purpose of this article is to present an overall three-tier interagency structure which provides a foundation for successful collaborative agency planning and service provision for students with intellectual disabilities.

Progressive Law, Activism, and Lawyering in an Age of Preemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Core Questions

Preemption is one of the most important legal doctrines for today’s progressives to understand because of its power to constrain progressive policymaking and social movement lawyering at the state and local level. By examining the detailed history of a decades-long campaign by the labor and environmental movements to improve working conditions in an industry at the heart of the global supply chain, Scott L. Cummings’s Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (2018) provides a case study about the doctrine and impacts of preemption. The study also inspires lawyers and activists alike to reexamine core questions of factual relevance, representation and voice, and precedent.

Toolkit for Epidemiologic Response to an Acute Chemical Release

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Anne Duncan ◽  
Maureen F. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Public Health Action ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Chemical Release ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Many

AbstractWhen a large chemical incident occurs and people are injured, public health agencies need to be able to provide guidance and respond to questions from the public, the media, and public officials. Because of this urgent need for information to support appropriate public health action, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) of the US Department of Health and Human Services has developed the Assessment of Chemical Exposures (ACE) Toolkit. The ACE Toolkit, available on the ATSDR website, offers materials including surveys, consent forms, databases, and training materials that state and local health personnel can use to rapidly conduct an epidemiologic investigation after a large-scale acute chemical release. All materials are readily adaptable to the many different chemical incident scenarios that may occur and the data needs of the responding agency. An expert ACE team is available to provide technical assistance on site or remotely. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:631–632)

Local Civil Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Mann ◽  
David Dallimore ◽  
Howard Davis ◽  
Graham Day ◽  
Maria Eichsteller
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Focus Questions

Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil society is contested and multifaceted, and this text offers assessment and clarification of debates concerning the intertwining of civil society, the state and local community relations. Analysing two Welsh villages, the authors examine the importance of identity, connection with place and the impact of social and spatial boundaries on the everyday production of civil society. Bringing into focus questions of biography and temporality, the book provides an innovative account of continuities and changes within local civil society during social and economic transformation.

Should a Special Educator Entertain Volunteers? Interdependence in Rural America

1984 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Marrs
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Special Educator ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
And Training

Rural communities have a tradition of helping each other and of shared interdependence. The National Rural Independent Living Network is developing Community Independent Living Service Delivery Systems in over 500 communities by 1986. Strategies are provided for designing a volunteer program, recruiting and training volunteers, and linking volunteers with disabled persons.

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