TY - JOUR
T1 - Community conversations
T2 - Engaging stakeholders to improve employment-related transition services for youth with emotional and behavioral disabilities
AU - Dutta, Alo
AU - Kundu, Madan M.
AU - Johnson, Ebonee
AU - Chan, Fong
AU - Trainor, Audrey
AU - Blake, Rolanda
AU - Christy, Ronald
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - PURPOSE: To present the findings of World Café focused community conversations organized to identify existing and needed resources for transition age youth with disabilities. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive research design. PARTICIPANTS: 52 professionals, parents, and students with disabilities with knowledge of transition services for youth with disabilities residing in a medium size city in the southern U.S. RESULTS: The results identified five important areas of service for transition age youth with disabilities. They are (a) demand side focused vocational rehabilitation services, (b) transition services for building employment skills, (c) connecting existing community based resources, (d) advocacy services, and (e) parent and family involvement in transition. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated the usefulness of community conversations in encouraging participants to think critically and in generating action plans to address a social exigency. In the process this study re-established the need for further investigation of the potential of community conversations to address key challenges facing diverse populations with disabilities, their families and communities, service providers, educators, researchers, and policy makers.
AB - PURPOSE: To present the findings of World Café focused community conversations organized to identify existing and needed resources for transition age youth with disabilities. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive research design. PARTICIPANTS: 52 professionals, parents, and students with disabilities with knowledge of transition services for youth with disabilities residing in a medium size city in the southern U.S. RESULTS: The results identified five important areas of service for transition age youth with disabilities. They are (a) demand side focused vocational rehabilitation services, (b) transition services for building employment skills, (c) connecting existing community based resources, (d) advocacy services, and (e) parent and family involvement in transition. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated the usefulness of community conversations in encouraging participants to think critically and in generating action plans to address a social exigency. In the process this study re-established the need for further investigation of the potential of community conversations to address key challenges facing diverse populations with disabilities, their families and communities, service providers, educators, researchers, and policy makers.
KW - World Caf
KW - community conversation
KW - secondary transition
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U2 - 10.3233/JVR-160809
DO - 10.3233/JVR-160809
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84977559616
SN - 1052-2263
VL - 45
SP - 43
EP - 51
JO - Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
IS - 1
ER -