Self-help information through various links, documents, publications, etc. Check the Community Directory Channel for more resources.
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Adult Education and Training Rights
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Exceptional Family Member Program
(Separate Website)
The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) is a mandatory enrollment program that works with other military and civilian agencies to provide comprehensive and coordinated community support, housing, and educational, medical, and personnel services to families with special needs. An exceptional family member is a family member (child or adult) with any physical, emotional, developmental, or intellectual disorder that requires special treatment, therapy, education, training, or counseling.
By: Army Community Service
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
(Separate Website)
DSS recognizes that we cannot meet all the needs of our clients and communities.The faith based initiative is our effort to match individuals and faith based institutions who feel called to serve their neighbor with people who need help.
By: SC Department of Social Services
Filing a Complaint with the South Carolina Department of Education
(Separate Website)
Under IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), parents have three options available to them for resolving disagreements about the education of their children: (1) the impartial due process hearing system; (2) the less formal mediation process; or (3) the complaint system operated by the State Department of Education (SDE).
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
Guide to Disability Rights Laws
(Separate Website)
This document, last updated August 2001, explains each of the Federal civil rights laws protecting people with disabilities, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, Telecommunications Act, Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act, National Voter Registration Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, and the Architectural Barriers Act. The document contains other sources of disability rights information as well.
By: U.S. Department of Justice
Head Injury: A Family Guide
(Separate Website)
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Job Training Programs
(Separate Website)
The Department of Labor's Employment & Training Administration (ETA) funds job training programs to improve the employment prospects of adults, youth, and dislocated workers. These programs are delivered primarily by states through the One-Stop Career Center System. Training programs can vary from state to state depending on the skills that are needed to compete for jobs in the local area. However, all programs are aimed at boosting workers' employability and earnings.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Making Life Work After A Head Injury
(Separate Website)
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
No Child Left Behind
(Separate Website)
No Child Left Behind is designed to change the culture of America's schools by closing the achievement gap, offering more flexibility, giving parents more options, and teaching students based on what works.
Under the act's accountability provisions, states must describe how they will close the achievement gap and make sure all students, including those who are disadvantaged, achieve academic proficiency. They must produce annual state and school district report cards that inform parents and communities about state and school progress. Schools that do not make progress must provide supplemental services, such as free tutoring or after-school assistance; take corrective actions; and, if still not making adequate yearly progress after five years, make dramatic changes to the way the school is run.
Now...And The Future
(Separate Website)
Resource Planning Guide for Persons with Disabilities and Their Families
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Plan for Achieving Self-Support (SSA-545)
(Separate Website)
A plan for achieving self--support, or PASS for short, is a plan for your future. Many people with disabilities want to work, and you're probably one of them. But maybe you need to go back to school before you can get a job. Or, maybe you'd like to start your own business, but you don't have the money. Whatever your work goal may be, a PASS can help you reach it. You may download a PASS form in PDF format from this page of the Social Security Administration.
By: Social Security Administration
Practical Guide to Services
(Separate Website)
Detailed information about programs and services available for people with disabilities. The guide also lists family support organizations, advocacy groups and other agencies which provide services to people with disabilities.
By: SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
Sea su Propia Defensa: 7 Consejos (Know Your Own Defense: 7 Tips)
(Separate Website)
La misión de P&A: la misión de P&A es proteger los derechos legales, civiles y humanos de las personas con discapacidades en Carolina del Sur. Una de las vías en la cual nosotros logramos esta misión es capacitando a individuos para cuidarse así mismos.
By: Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities
A Guide to Effective Statewide Laws/Policies Against Discrimination
(Separate Website)
Information about preventing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-sexual students in K-12 Schools
By: LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund
Affirmative Action
(Separate Website)
For federal contractors and subcontractors, affirmative action must be taken by covered employers to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and covered veterans. Affirmative actions include training programs, outreach efforts, and other positive steps. These procedures should be incorporated into the company?s written personnel policies. Employers with written affirmative action programs must implement them, keep them on file and update them annually.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Americans with Disabilities Act
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Americans with Disabilities Act - Answers to Common Questions
(Separate Website)
The Americans with Disabilities Act gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, State and local government services, and telecommunications. This web page is designed to provide answers to some of the questions asked most often about the ADA.
By: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Americans with Disabilities Act- A Guide for People with Disabilities Seeking Employment
(Separate Website)
If you are seeking a job or are new to the workforce, you should become familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), a federal civil rights law designed to prevent discrimination and enable individuals with disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of society. One fundamental principle of the ADA is that individuals with disabilities who want to work and are qualified to work must have an equal opportunity to work. This brochure, from the Social Security Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice answers questions you may have about your employment rights under the ADA.
By: Social Security Administration, EEOC and Department of Justice
Anti-discrimination Law Map (relating to Gay and Lesbian Community)
(Separate Website)
This page contains a map of the states which have laws that prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation.
By: LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund
Civil Rights and HIV / AIDS
(Separate Website)
Ever since the emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s, our nation has been struggling to cope with this terrible disease. But the widespread fear stirred by the AIDS crisis has made the careful development of public policy difficult. There have been unwise calls for the curtailment of individual rights and liberties, and people with AIDS have often faced irrational discrimination -- job firings, exclusions from school, and denials of access to health care.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Employment Discrimination
(Separate Website)
The Department of Justice ? Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) is a federal agency division that investigates employers charged with
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Referral Finder
(Separate Website)