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youthAbility
was a two-year program that provided outreach to and recruitment
of young people with disabilities into national and community
service programs. Under the direction of IAJVS and funded
by the Corporation
for National and Community Service, ten affiliates collaborated
to implement YouthAbility, an innovative national project
that promoted national service among the nation's youth. The
project provided information about national service programs
to youth with disabilities, established recruitment programs,
and helped national and community service programs adapt their
programs to make them more inclusive and accommodating to
individuals with disabilities.
IAJVS and its affiliates
partnered with an organization having an equally outstanding
reputation in the fields of volunteerism and national service:
Youth Service America (YSA). The collaboration linked experts
within the disability community and those within the national
and community service arenas to create an effective process
that yielded increased participation by youth with disabilities
in national service.
Local youthAbility
programs ran in ten cities through IAJVS affiliate agencies:
- Jewish Family & Career
Services, Atlanta
- Jewish
Vocational Service, Baltimore
- Jewish Vocational Service,
Boston
- Jewish Vocational Service, Chicago
- Jewish Vocational Service,
Cincinnati
- Jewish
Family Service Association, Cleveland
- Jewish Vocational
Service, Los Angeles
- Jewish Employment & Vocational
Service, Philadelphia
- MERS/Goodwill, St. Louis
- Jewish
Social Service Agency, Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
The youthAbility Tech Access Program, which subsidizes the
purchase of assistive technology so that youth with disabilities
have the opportunity to volunteer, complements this program.
For more info, please click here to visit the youthAbility
Tech Access Program page. |
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