Information Sources for Youth
Employment
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Indiana Arts-in-Education Resources
Employment
Youth at WorkThe U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's website for youth in the workforce: focuses on rights and responsibilities, the various types of discrimination affecting young workers, and how to prevent discrimination in the workplace.
Partners Online Youth Group
Click on "Partners Online." Offers an online community with trained mentors and facilitators for young people 14-24 with a wide range of disabilities. Communicate with others who can relate to your experience, talents, and frustrations; seek or provide support and advice. A free program of the Massachusetts-based Partners for Youth with Disabilities, available to youth all over the country.
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Youth Rules!
Information for Teens on what hours you can work, what jobs you can work and how you can help prevent workplace injuries.
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Arts Resources
Infinite Difference: A Call for Flash Fiction and PoetryClick on Literary Journal. VSA arts online literary journal, in its third year of showcasing the creative writing of middle and high school students.
On Your Level Youth Project, Inc.
Projects include a radio and television show and Open Mic Night events (see below).
Open Mic Night
On Your Level Youth Project sponsors an open stage mic for all ages to perform and practice any form of spoken word entertainment. Open Mic Nights happen several times a year in Indianapolis. Poetry, prose, comedy, hip-hop, rap, acoustic music and more. Click on the link above for more details and to sign-up for e-mail notices about these events.
Statewide IUPUI Poetry Contest for High School Students
2007 was the inaugural year of this contest, which awarded cash prizes and IUPUI scholarships. February deadline.
STUART An online venue for student visual artists.
The site is for art students (STUdent ART - get it?) to show their work and create their own network page. STUART was created by Charles Saatchi, famed for spotting young unknowns and turning them into art-world superstars (as well as for promoting highly controversial art.) The site gives artists the opportunity to show their work in a virtual exhibition space, where they could potentially be picked up by collectors. You can post photos, profiles, videos, and images.
VSA arts Playwright Discovery Award
Annual competition for middle and high school students with or without disabilities, on the theme of how disability affects the students' and others' lives. The author of the winning script gets a cash award and trip to Washington D.C. to see their play staged or produced.
YAZ Youth Amputee eZINE
An online magazine that publishes youth art work, stories and poetry. For more details, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Spotlight on You.
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Information Sources for Supporters
Partners for Youth with DisabilitiesProvides funding from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy to faith-based and community-based organizations throughout the country that are starting, sustaining or expanding individual, group or online mentoring programs for youth with disabilities. Sponsored the first National Conference on Mentoring for Youth with Disabilities in 2006.
National Center for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
Offers training, technical assistance, and funding to organizations interested in mentoring for youth with disabilities; publishes a guide (see below) and sponsors a national conference.
Best Practices Guide in Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
A free, online book (145 pages) describing best practices and strategies for mentoring youth with disabilities. Includes suggestions for starting a program, development, evaluation, and more.
The Road to Self-Sufficiency: A Guide to Entrepreneurship for Youth with Disabilities
Developed to serve as a resource for organizations working with youth on career exploration and employment options, and policymakers who support youth programs.
Partners Online Parent Group
Click on "Partners Online." An online national network for parents who wish to exchange information about key transitional issues.
Pro-Bank database of promising practices
An online database of programs in the workforce development system that effectively address the needs of youth with disabilities. Sponsored by the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth.
American Foundation for the Blind's CareerConnect Program
Click on "CareerConnect." Family members and others can investigate the many jobs that visually impaired workers are doing, and find out how to provide critical mentorship from successfully employed, visually impaired adults.
Developmental Obstacles to Careers in the Arts for Young Persons with Disabilities
A comprehensive paper examining barriers to arts employment faced by youth with disabilities, by Carol J. Gill of the Chicago Center for Disability Research.
Indiana Arts-in-Education Resources
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