{"id":3584,"date":"2016-08-23T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:57:29","slug":"transition-to-work-guide-82316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"Transition to Work guide, 8\/23\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Foundation for the Blind CareerConnect\u00ae program is proud to announce a new guide to help professionals implement the Workforce Innovation &amp; Opportunity Act (WIOA) and improve employment outcomes for teens and young adults who are blind or visually impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afb.org\/info\/living-with-vision-loss\/for-job-seekers\/lesson-plans-for-teachers-and-professionals\/transition-to-work-program-activity-guide\/1234\">Transition to Work: Program Activity Guide<\/a> includes 19 free lesson plans and assignments designed to facilitate workplace readiness and work-based learning experiences for youth. Activities include researching and applying for jobs; filling out job applications; preparing an elevator speech and a marketing message; handling on the job assignments; a work performance appraisal; and other related activities.<\/p>\n<p>The guide is available online on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afb.org\/info\/living-with-vision-loss\/for-job-seekers\/12\">CareerConnect<\/a> website. Each activity has a corresponding electronic braille file in the Unified English Braille Code ready to be downloaded and embossed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3584\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Foundation for the Blind CareerConnect\u00ae program is proud to announce a new guide to help professionals implement the Workforce Innovation &amp; Opportunity Act (WIOA) and improve employment outcomes for teens and young adults who are blind or visually impaired. The Transition to Work: Program Activity Guide includes 19 free lesson plans and assignments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36,27,18,17,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}