(HISTORICAL) Maryland Work-Based Learning Collaborative (MWBLC)

 
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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Maryland State Department of Education

    Summary

    The Maryland Work-based Learning Collaborative (MWBLC) aims to improve the lives of students with disabilities in Maryland by increasing their academic, career, and financial success. The purpose is to enable local education agencies (LEAs) in Maryland to implement a model of school to career transition services for students with disabilities. The project includes a randomized control design implemented across 6-8 diverse school districts in Maryland for 400 students; half receiving services as usual and half receiving the enhanced services (treatment group).


    The MWBLC model incorporates four empirically supported components robustly associated with post-school success for youth with disabilities. These include:

    • Early engagement with the Division of Rehabilitation Services' (DORS) Pre-Employment Transitioning Services Program (PreETS);
    • Multiple work experiences;
    • Paid employment; and
    • Focused collaboration between schools, DORS, local community rehabilitation providers (CRPs), workforce centers, and other partners.

    The project supports and promotes the State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Plan (APR) for Indicators 13 and 14 by:

    • Indicator 13 - Promoting results of youth aged 16 and above with an individualized education program (IEP) or Section 504 plan that includes coordinated, measurable, annual IEP goals and transition services that will reasonably enable the student to meet their postsecondary goals; (have adequate goals and transition services); and
    • Indicator 14 - Promoting the increased numbers of youth who had IEPs, are no longer in school and who have been competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary schools, or both, within one year of leaving high school (connecting the data, determine if students are competitively employed or enrolled in postsecondary school or both). 

    Priority will be given to applicants that demonstrate readiness to meet the requirements set forth in this RFP and best explain how the LEA will implement, with fidelity, MWBLC (page 6) program services to students (in the treatment group).

     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    The outcomes of the project are to:

    • improve competitive integrated employment consistent with students' career goals;
    • increase economic self-sufficiency;
    • ensure high school completion and linkages to post-school services and supports consistent with students' goals;
    • improve service system collaboration to reduce systemic barriers & sustain effective service coordination; and
    • demonstrate the efficacy of the model to improve outcomes and impacts of youth with disabilities for replicability and sustainability.

    Contacts

    Jill Pierce

    Jill Pierce
    200 west Baltimore Street
    Baltinmore, MD 21201-2595
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants are Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in Maryland.

    Deadline Details

    Deadline for applications is Monday, June 25, 2018 11:59 p.m. EST.

    Award Details

    Awards are up to $50,000. Up to 4 awards are expected for Fiscal Years 2018-2019 and up to 4 awards for State Fiscal Years 2019-2020. Grant period is from July 30, 2018 – June 30, 2020.

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