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  • Blue Ribbon Task Force Implementation Working Group
    • The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Inclusive Community Living, Transition, and Employment of Persons with Developmental Disabilities submitted its final report to the Governor and Florida Legislature on December 15, 2004 . That report presented critical recommendations for improving inclusive community living options, transition outcomes, and employment for people with developmental disabilities. 

      The Blue Ribbon Task Force Implementation Working Group (BIWG) was subsequently formed for the purpose of making the vision and mission of the Blue Ribbon Task Force a reality.

      The final report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force included a recommendation that the BIWG present a report to the Governor and Legislature every 6 months on its progress in implementing the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Task Force.

      Click here for the latest BIWG report.

      Click here to find background information on the Blue Ribbon Task Force and its final report.

  • The Interagency Services Committee for Youth with Disabilities
    • 2006 legislature (SB 1278) is an act relating to youth and young adults with disabilities and the creation of an Interagency Services Committee for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities as follows:
      • Creates (using permissive language) the Interagency Services Committee for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities within the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
      • Directs the committee to establish goals to ensure the successful transition to employment or further education of youth and young adults with disabilities and to eliminate barriers that impede educational opportunities leading to future employment.
      • Specifies committee membership and directs the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Health, and the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to provide staff support to the committee.
      • Delineates duties and responsibilities of the committee.
      • Directs the committee to present a progress report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by March 1, 2007, and a final report detailing committee findings and recommendations by January 1, 2008. The committee is abolished on June 1, 2008.
      • Has an effective date of July 1, 2006.
      • (SB 1278)
  • Florida National Governors? Association Policy Team for Improving Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities
    • Vision: All individuals, with and without disabilities, live, learn, work, and participate together in all life experiences.
    • Mission: To increase the number of Florida youth and young adults with disabilities who participate and demonstrate success in post?secondary education certification and who obtain and maintain competitive integrated employment.
    • Goals:
      • Florida youth and young adults with disabilities participate in work experiences and opportunities that ultimately lead to a living wage, work related skills development, income and benefits potential, and asset accumulation.
      • Florida youth and young adults with disabilities participate and demonstrate success in post-secondary educational opportunities and/or other employment related opportunities.
    • Florida?s Strengthening Youth Partnerships (SYP) initiative focuses attention on ensuring that every young person in Florida is ready and able to pursue a meaningful job path upon exiting secondary education.
      • SYP will:
        • Educate state and local agency staff about business expectations, the critical importance of youth acquiring occupational skills in the current economy, and the available programs and resources to develop Florida?s future workforce;
        • Support a state organizational structure that will use collaborative interagency planning, resource alignment, implementation and outcome evaluation for the purpose of more effectively preparing youth for employment and transition to adulthood;
        • Support a state policy framework for assuring that the most at-risk youth become engaged in activities that will enhance personal and community economic development;
        • Untangle agency policies that work at cross-purposes;
        • Identify incentives for business investment, and
        • Help schools see the possible linkages between the mission of Workforce Boards and the re-tooling of secondary schooling through the Ready to Work Initiative.