- Goals
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- Goals
Goal 1: Improve employment outcomes for youth with cognitive disabilities
Goal 2: Evaluate the PDCM model
Goal 3: Improve implementation of evidence-based practice by multi-agency teams
Goal 4: Support multi-agency teams in improving transition services
Goal 1:
Improve employment outcomes for youth identified as having cognitive disabilities through a collaborative approach to Individual Education Plan and Individual Plan for Employment development, coordinated case management, and service delivery.
Goal 2:
We will evaluate the Professional Development Case Management (PDCM) model to improve the coordination of transition services for youth with cognitive disabilities by designing, testing, and assessing its effectiveness in both in-school and post-school contexts. Using a mixed-methods approach, the evaluation will include measures of professional development fidelity, pre- and post-tests of IEP and IPE content, and assessments of multi-agency collaboration. In addition, we will examine the usability and feasibility of the PDCM model to better understand how it supports knowledge growth and changes in practice among individual professionals and multi-agency teams engaged in the intervention.
Goal 3:
The PDCM model is designed to prepare rehabilitation counselors, special educators, and case managers to jointly develop IEPs and IPEs and coordinate implementation and monitoring of services. The intervention components of the model support teams in overcoming challenges with implementing evidence-based practices.
Goal 4:
Coaching, consisting of quarterly meetings with multi-agency teams over targeted youths’ in-school transition years and continuing one-year post exit, will support teams in collaborative case management, implementing evidence-based practices, problem solving implementation challenges, and securing competitive integrated employment for youth with cognitive disabilities.