The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) will host the third virtually session for the 2023-2024 OSERS Symposium Series, Expect, Engage, Empower Symposium: Collaboration to Improve Outcomes on Sept. 12, 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET.
About the Event
Each year, OSERS conducts a Symposium Series to provide high-quality, timely, and evidence-based strategies focused on improving performance in a specific topic.
The 2023-2024 OSERS Symposium Series — Expect, Engage, Empower: Successful Transitions for All! — offers an opportunity for the field to join OSERS in the challenge to raise expectations, engage families earlier, and fully empower all individuals who support transition services to improve post-school outcomes for children and youth with disabilities and their families.
This symposium focuses on the importance of collaboration between special education, vocational rehabilitation, and centers for independent living to ensure the best outcomes for our youth with disabilities and their families.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides protections and ensures a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment for eligible children with disabilities, and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) prepares job seekers, including youth with disabilities and those with significant barriers to employment, to obtain, maintain, and advance in employment in the competitive [...]