SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES COUNCIL

• Marlboro County Board Disabilities and Special Needs: “Heaven Sent Bakery” -- Accelerate the level of employment opportunity and community social interaction for 25 developmentally disabled citizens and teenagers of MarlboroCounty by further expansion and market penetration of a retail bakery and delivery service.

• Lee County Disabilities and Special Needs Board, Inc.: “Work Enterprise 2002” -- Will provide and expand employment and income opportunities for 89 individuals with disabilities who attend the Gibbs I and Gibbs II adult day programs

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• Laurens District 55 High School: “ROAD to Success (Raiders Occupational Diploma to Success)” -- Prepare 80 students for life and competitive employment in the community. The program is based on a functional curriculum, an occupational diploma, and strong interagency collaboration.

• Manning High School: “TALENT Program Occupational Diploma” -- To improve the quality of education for 60 self-contained special education students at the high school level and to improve the quality of education by implementing the LIFE Diploma and mental health counseling services to reduce the drop-out rates for at-risk students.

• Florence County School District:: “Project SUCEED: Students Undergoing Collaborative Curriculum Essential for Employment Delivery” -- Continue a transitional program that will enable 125 students with special needs to have the skills necessary to transition successfully from school to community and reach their full potential as productive citizens.

• EastClarendonHigh School: ”OPT” Program Occupational Partnerships for Tomorrow” -- To provide support for the implementation of an occupational diploma program. This program will provide students with opportunities to work within the community so they can gain experience and make educated career choices. Will serve 45.

 

• Clover School District: "A.S.S.E.T.S: A program for developing personal A.bilities, S.kills, and S.trengths to E.nsure a T.ransition of S.uccess” -- Provide approximately 40 students with disabilities in grades 9th – 12th the knowledge and skills necessary to obtain and maintain post-high school employment in order to rise above the poverty level in which many adults with disabilities are living.

• Beaufort County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “Gift Shop – Old Shells Gifts” -- Continue to have a gift shop selling crafts and plants created and grown by people with disabilities and special needs and other related community groups. Will serve 15-20.

• Chesterfield County School District: “EDGE (Everyone Deserves Gainful Employment) “ -- An interagency cooperation to allow CCBDSN to provide job coaching services for special education students in the county’s four public high schools. Will serve 60-85.

• Spartanburg School District # 5: "Coaching Winners” -- Improve and provide supported employment opportunities and training for 75 high school students with severe learning and/or emotional disabilities attending school in Spartanburg School District #5.

• SpartanburgSchool District # 7: "PROWL: Providing Relevant Occupational Work-based Learning” -- Develop a series of vocational courses that will be offered in conjunction with the regular vocational classes to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities to prepare them for employment. Students will participate in integrated vocational training and community-based training experiences.

• AikenCountySchool District: “Building Bridges – Collaborative Workshops on Autism” -- Collaborative training workshops for families of, and professionals working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Will provide participants with hands on ideas and materials that have immediate, functional applications that promote independence for the individual with ASD. Will serve 180.

• South Carolina Association of the Deaf : “South Carolina Interpreter Recruitment and Training Project” -- Program designed to reduce the critical shortage of qualified interpreters in South Carolina through recruitment and training efforts.

• Clemson University – School of Education: “Self-Determination into Action: An After-School Youth Empowerment Program” -- Continue an after-school program that teaches school-age youth with developmental disabilities self-determination skills, pilot-test the program in Oconee and Pickens counties in the first year, and disseminate program information to counties in the entire state and interested parties’ nation wide. Will serve 100-120.

• South CarolinaSchool for the Deaf and Blind: “The South Carolina “Deaf Prep” Program -- Program to prepare deaf adult South Carolinians to pass the GED exam to increase their likelihood of entering college or obtaining employment. Will serve 15.

• Marion School District Two: “INCLUSION THROUGH SENSORY INTEGRATION” -- Address and remediate the academic and social deficits our youngest students bring with them to the school environment due to a lack of sensory input and appropriate stimulation at key developmental stages. This will be accomplished through the school-wide implementation of a proven program which combines sensory integration with targeted academics, thereby enabling these students to experience full and early inclusion in the total school experience. Will serve 550.

• OrangeburgCountyConsolidatedSchool District #4: “Vision Itinerant Parcel Service” (V.I.P.S.) -- Provide Assistive Technology to special education teachers, related service providers, and parents serving students ages 3-21 enrolled in primary, elementary, middle and high schools.

• Clemson University – School of Education: “Project Connection: Facilitating the Transition to Postsecondary Education through Peer Mentoring” -- Develop an mentoring program, in which successful college students with disabilities provide face-to face and online mentoring to high school students with disabilities in their transition to postsecondary education and to implement the program with high school students with disabilities across the state and to investigate the effects of mentoring on high school students transition to postsecondary education.

• FortMillSchool District #4: “After School…What’s Next? -- Educating students, parents, educators, agency personnel and the community to enhance pot-school outcomes for students and adults with disabilities. The program goals will meet through innovative parents/student workshops designed to increase student and parent awareness of transition services available and provide training in self-advocacy skills.

• Carolina Autism Supported living Services, Ltd. : “Intensive Behavioral Intervention Project” -- Provide help to toddlers and young children with autism reach better outcomes as they approach school age by using proven strategies that address the deficits and the learning characteristics of children with autism. The goal for most children is inclusion into regular education settings as the children reach first grade age. For other young children the goal is to lessen the early effects of autism and enable learning so that better progress can be made toward functional and adaptive skills.

• School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties: “GREAT Start” -- Provide education and early intervention among the school district’s comprehensive continuum of services based on their developmental needs that prepares them to be successful in the K-12 education environment.

• FamilyResourceCenter for Disabilities and Special Needs: “Project REST (Restraint, Efficacy, Safety & Training)” -- Will examine the practice of using restraint techniques on children with disabilities in the public school systems in Charleston, Berkeley, & Dorchester counties. By means of an addendum to the Individual Education Program, Project REST will promote parent involvement and school accountability to insure safe and appropriate practice to reach a population of 1,221 students identified with behavior related disabilities.

• The Arc of the Midlands:" Partners in Policymaking" -- Provide grassroots leadership training for self-advocates and parents about developmental disabilities issues and competency training necessary to become effective advocates.

• South Carolina Autism Society: “5FAB (5 Featured Autism Books)” -- Will work with local libraries to ensure that South Carolina residents newly diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, or families existing with the disability, will have access to 5 of the most up to date and highly recommended resource material on autism spectrum disorders through their local library.

• South Carolina Autism Society: “People with Disabilities and 9-1-1 Assistance: Bringing the Two -- Will inventory the state’s fifty 9-1-1 centers to determine exactly what their capabilities are for storing information about where people with disabilities live and what their specific needs would be in an emergency: determine how each center collects this information; and design and launch an awareness program to get this potentially life-saving information to self-advocates, family members and other caregivers, as well as advocacy groups across the state. Will serve 24,000 +.

• Carolina Autism Supported living Services, Ltd.: “PLACES for Autism (Preferred Living Arrangements in Community Environment for people with Autism)” -- Provide new, inclusive, community living options for 24 people with autism who would otherwise be forced to live in institutions. Homes will be in neighborhoods. Three to four people in each house will live as housemates and share responsibilities as they learn to participate successfully in their community. Autism specialists and direct care professionals will supervise the program and provide “round-the-clock” care and instruction.

• Epilepsy Foundation of South Carolina: “Kids on the Bock Health and Wellness Program” -- An internationally acclaimed community awareness program. This program uses life size puppets to teach elementary aged children about disability awareness, medical/educational differences and social concerns. The main topics of interest will be epilepsy, vehicle safety and learning disabilities. Will serve 3,000.

• City of North Myrtle Beach: “North Myrtle Beach Program” -- Provide accessible facility for persons with physical and developmental disabilities that will enhance their quality of life through health, fitness, wellness and recreational/leisure programs. Will serve 752.

• Greenwood Genetic Center: “South Carolina Neural Tube Defect Public Awareness Campaign” --- Continue to reduce the number of Neural Tube Defect affected pregnancies and increase awareness in women from age 14 to 45 about the importance of taking a multivitamin with .4 mg of folic acid every day.

• Pickens County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “Leadership Recreation Social Inclusion Program for Individuals with Disabilities” -- Pickens County DSN Board and Clemson University and other Piedmont Region DSN Boards will develop and operate innovative Leadership/Recreation Social Inclusion programs for 400 individuals with disabilities.

• The Citadel Department of Psychology: “Peer Express for Adolescents (PEX-A): Interagency Collaboration for Inclusive Recreation” -- Replicable model for building inclusive recreation and peer partnerships for 300 adolescents through family, school, recreation department, and higher education collaboration.

• Chesterfield County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “CCBDSN BRACE” -- Adding an option to under-funded traditional “sitter service” respite care which would bring a community-based respite offered on a recurring basis to increase respite utilization and reduce household guilt over respite use. Will serve 18.

• Marion-Dillon County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “Recreational, Leisure, and Social Activities Awareness Project" -- Expose 131 persons with disabilities to different aspects of society through a well-planned recreational, leisure and social activities program.

• City of Conway-Recreation Department: “2004 Summer Playground Program” -- An opportunity for children with Autism to participate in an inclusive recreational program that will include students without disabilities in an effort to enhance the socialization and communication skills of children with autism in typical social and recreational situations.

• Pickens County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “Mountain View Arts and Crafts” -- Pickens County DSN Board and Arc of Pickens County and other Piedmont Region groups will develop Mountain View Arts and Crafts which will provide arts instruction, cultural enrichment and opportunities for developing and using employment skills for citizens with disabilities in PickensCounty. They will also create an advisory board for future program development and seek public awareness of the abilities of individuals with disabilities. The program will stress social inclusion for 400 individuals with disabilities.

• Beaufort County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs: “Vacation in Your Own Community” Provide an opportunity for 50 individuals with disabilities to enjoy the natural beauty and resources available in the resort area of the Low country. Will serve 50.