Designing Statewide Strategies & Programs
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National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability For Youth<br />
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goals, course-taking plans, postsecondary training and education goals, and explain<br />
how they plan to continue developing the college and career readiness skills.<br />
Consult with local special educators and family advocacy organizations to identify and<br />
address potential barriers that may impede some students’ successful participation<br />
in career development programs and activities (e.g. inaccessible or inappropriate<br />
assessment instruments to determine eligibility to participate, capacity to access<br />
materials required to develop ePortfolios, or ability to access work-based learning<br />
opportunities).<br />
Consider including district-level family engagement officers to work with parents,<br />
families, and guardians to assist with and reinforce the career development activities.<br />
Table 11. Resources on Engaging Families and Family Advocacy<br />
Organizations<br />
South Carolina’s Resources for Parents is intended to connect families to information and resources<br />
to involve them in their children’s college and career planning process, including the<br />
Parent Tool Kit for College and Career, eIGP, Work-Based Learning, MicroCareerBursts, Tools for<br />
Career Exploration and Preparation, and Career Clusters.<br />
Kentucky developed an extensive Parent Toolkit to help K-12 educators more effectively engage<br />
families in career development.<br />
Understanding the New Vision for Career Development: The Role of Family is a family-focused<br />
career development brief by NCWD/Youth (authored by the PACER Center) to support family<br />
engagement in career development.<br />
Families and College and Career Readiness: What Schools Can Do to Engage Families in the Individualized<br />
Learning Plan (ILP) Process is an Info Brief by NCWD/Youth that describes actions<br />
that schools can take to improve family engagement in the ILP process based on feedback from<br />
families of youth with and without disabilities.<br />
The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) hosts the Family and Community Engagement (FCE)<br />
Network, a national peer learning and action network that brings together parents, teachers,<br />
school and district leaders, and other family-focused practitioners. The FCE Network involves<br />
individuals interested in improving systemic family and community engagement and learning<br />
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