Mentoring Links

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MENTOR: Expanding the world of quality mentoring

http://www.mentoring.org

Provides resources for four basic groups:

• Mentors: Find out what you have to offer, find an opportunity with programs in your area, or find support for your current mentoring relationship.
• Caring Adults: Learn about mentoring, how to to find a mentor for a child and how mentoring works.
• Community Leaders: Help expand mentoring! How to get your business involved, what foundations can do to help, how public policymakers can make a difference, and how you can support mentoring.
• Mentoring Program staff: Find resources that will help you start a program or manage an existing program, including after school programs and mentoring. Or register your program to receive volunteer referrals.

The National Mentoring Center

http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring

The National Mentoring Center is a project of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, a 501c3, based in Portland, OR. The NMC, now in its fourth year of operation, is one of the preeminent national training and technical assistance providers for mentoring programs across the United States. Created and funded primarily by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the National Mentoring Center provides a range of services including:

• Large-scale training conference and workshop design and implementation
• In-depth coaching and program consulting
• Electronic information resources development and management
• Print material development and dissemination
• Data collection and evaluation
• Projects that support state and national initiatives

The National Mentoring Center is staffed by a team of professionals with diverse and complementary skill-sets. Collectively, the NMC staff has extensive expertise in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of complex youth development projects and intensive training and technical assistance services.

Employment Information for People with Disabilities

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Navigating Medicare and Medicaid: Resource Guides for People with Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Advocates
These guides explain the critical role Medicare and Medicaid have come to play in the lives and the futures of roughly 20 million children, adults, and seniors with disabilities - and give people with disabilities new information to help them get the most from these programs.

Navigating Medicare and Medicaid, 2005

http://www.kff.org/medicare/7240.cfm

Keeping Medicare and Medicaid When You Work, 2005

http://www.kff.org/medicare/7241.cfm

Information provided by the Medicare Policy Project
Publish Date: 2005-02-07

COOLWORKS

Cool Works® is about you finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on Earth. Get a summer job in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national park. Find a summer job as a camp counselor. Ski resorts, ranches, theme parks, tour companies and more are waiting for you. Let Cool Works.com® show you the way to live out your own amazing adventure!

http://www.coolworks.com/

Youth Service Practitioner
The purpose of this area is to provide information for youth service Practitioners providing programs and services for youth (ages 14-25).
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/who_Are_You/frontline/index.html

Educational On-Line website has an example of a simple on-line "Career Interest Survey"
http://www.edonline.com/collegecompass/carhlp2.htm

Transition Technical Assistance Centers
http://www.uncc.edu/ttac/ttac.asp

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/

State of Virginia Department of Education on Special Education and Transition
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/sped/transition/

Self Determination Curricula
http://www.uncc.edu/sdsp/sd_lesson_plans.asp

Community Events Calendar

http://calendar.gohawaii.com/oahu/

http://www.visit-oahu.com/home.aspx

Additional Mentor Training

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http://www.dlrp.org/ provides information about Online Trainings

ADA BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS

http://www.adabasics.org/

An Online Course about the ADA. This introductory web course on the ADA explores the legal requirements and spirit of the ADA. The course content is self-paced, organized into 12 topics, and designed to be studied in order. Upon completion of the course, you may be eligible to earn a certificate and one CEU if you meet ALL established criteria. The course is free, however, there is a $50 CEU fee that must be paid to receive continuing education credit.

At Your Service: Welcoming Customers with Disabilities

http://www.wiawebcourse.org/

A free online course designed to: increase understanding of the needs and experiences of people with disabilities; present how to adjust general customer service standards to meet the needs of the customer with a disability; develop basic etiquette for interacting with a customer who has a disability; show how to comply with statutes regarding service to people with disabilities, particularly the ADA and Section 508. This course is self-paced and available to anyone at anytime.

Access E-Learning (AEL)

http://www.accesselearning.net/

A ten-module tutorial that is a resource for those seeking to make their distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities. AEL offers information on the most common needs in distance education, and provides instruction in techniques that will enhance the usability of online materials for all students. Before using this tutorial, you must create a login. Registration is free and will give you unlimited access. Each time you want to use this tutorial, simply login with your email address and password.

EASI Online Courses and the Certificate in Accessible Information Technology

http://easi.cc/workshop.htm

EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) has created 3 separate but interconnected programs specifically designed to support institutions making their computer and information technology systems accessible to students, staff and faculty with disabilities. Besides the Certificate program, EASI provides monthly 60-minute live Web conferences on current technology and an annual institutional membership with special networking and support features.

Job Accommodation Network's Approach to Reasonable Accommodations

http://www.t-tap.org/training/onlineseminars/jan/janseminar.html

JAN represents the most comprehensive resource for job accommodations available.

Partners in Education

http://www.partnersinpolicymaking.com/education/index.html

A 3-hour online self-study course for parents of children with disabilities. The course is designed to teach the skills you need to advocate for your child. You will learn about:

Laws governing special education and how they protect your child's rights

Your role in your child's educational experience

Your child's Individualized Education Program (IEP) and your role in developing the IEP;

How to advocate for your child;

Your rights if you believe your child's educational rights have been violated.

Series on Accessibility and the ADAAG

http://www.dlrp.org/html/Training/Archives/Derry/index.html

The four-part series is available on-demand for continuing education credits. Topics in the series are:

• The ADAAG Special Sections: Completing the Accessibility Picture
• Accessibility in the Public Right-of-Way: Access on the Road
• Common Errors & Omissions in New Construction:Better Design = Less Rebuild
• Harmonization of the Standards–Getting Everyone on the "Same Page"

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