Office of State Coordinator of Vocational Education for Students with Disabilities Department of Education 120 State Street Montpelier, VT 05620 (802) 828-3101 State Department of Education: Special Education Student Support Services 120 State Street, State Office Building Montpelier, VT 05620 (802) 828-2755 http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/pgm_sped.html Vermont Department of Employment and Training PO Box 488 5 Green Mountain […]
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About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something horrible and scary that a person sees or that happens to them. During this type of event, a person feels that their life or others’ lives are in danger. Anyone who has gone through […]
About Traumatic Brain Injury
In the United States, 1.4 million people sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury each year. Of those, 50,000 die; 235,000 are hospitalized; and 1.1 million are treated and released from an emergency department. So what is a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? A TBI is defined as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating […]
Employment Services
VocRehab Vermont – http://vocrehab.vermont.gov/ Vermont Department of Labor – http://www.labor.vermont.gov/ (more…)
Recruiting Resources for Employers
Veterans With Service Connected Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): A Guide for Employers. http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/veterans-disabilities-employers.html (more…)
Employing Veterans With Disabilities
Each year across the country, thousands of military personnel leave active duty and seek to return to the civilian workforce. Between October 2001 and February 2008, more than 30,000 veterans returned home with service-connected disabilities. Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have experienced a higher proportion of both traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress […]
Child Care
Child Care Services Provides information on choosing child care and a list of providers by town. Vermont Social Rehabilitation Services 103 South Main Street Waterbury, VT 05671 (802)241-2158 http://www.state.vt.us/srs/childcare/ (Website) Child Care/Day Care Resources Provides list of licensed providers by city or town http://www.childcareresource.org/ (Website) National Network for Child Care Provides information on child care […]
Employer’s Perceptions Video
“Employer Perceptions” is a five-minute excerpt from the video “Work Works!” Work Works! is a 30-minute documentary-style video that looks at how work plays an important role in the lives and recovery of people with mental illness. Through interviews with a wide range of people in the community, this video speaks frankly and from the […]
Benefits
Social Security There are two programs under Social Security: 1. Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) 2. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) SSDI is based on prior work under Social Security, while SSI is based on financial need. Persons ineligible for SSDI because they lack enough prior work history may be eligible for SSI. It is also […]
Assistive Technology
Programs that provide equipment, appliances and assistive aids that enable people to increase their mobility and/or ability to community and live more comfortably. Vermont Assistive Technology Project The VATP is to effect systems change to insurance the integration of Assistive Technology within all services to Vermonter’s with disabilities. 103 South Main Street, Weeks Building Waterbury, […]