PATH: Engaging a Diverse Group of Stakeholders in an Interactive Strategic Planning Process to Expand
Inclusive Higher Education Options
Deborah Zuver, Donna Carlson Yerby, Megan McVea
Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
INTRODUCTION
The North Carolina Postsecondary Education Alliance (PSEA) engages a diverse group of stakeholders toward expanding inclusive higher education. In January 2014, PSEA members
participated in an interactive strategic planning process using PATH – Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (O’Brien, Pearpoint & Kahn, 2010). This accessible planning process can
be implemented with other groups to explore a shared vision, select realistic goals, and develop steps to reach those goals.
NC PSEA Stakeholders:
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Self advocates
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Families
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Educators
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Policy makers
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Students
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State agencies
Who
- State agency reps to address - Identify core set of data
policy needs
points
- VR Program Specialist
Transition/ Employment
Services
March-July ‘14
Next steps
- Identify College Access
Projects in NC
- Local employers and
businesses
- Transition coordinators,
guidance counselors,
teachers, MCOs
For more information, visit our website:
http://www.cidd.unc.edu/psea/
-Public is fully aware of PSE options
-Identify existing NC family
support entities; collaborate
with public awareness
committee
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-All systems collaborate and network well
-Each county has PSE access
-Consistent VR policy is in effect across NC
-Draft public awareness plan 4- Establish Policy Subgroup 14; disseminate 7-14
- Chief Academic
of NC PSEA
Officers/Continuing Ed Deans
-Survey Community Colleges
at Community Colleges
- Identify Transition
Training for Families
-Create PSE survey/
- Provosts in the UNC System
dissemination list
- Members of NC Chapter
Association of Higher
Education and Disability
(AHEAD)
Ideally…
-Policy subgroup compiles
existing policies for revision
recommendations
- Offer TA to new inclusive PSE
options forming
-VR finalizes policy
-Compile
data/stories
policy
- Compile campus
survey results
-All college campuses buy in
- Consistent PSE outcome
measures; qualitative (stories) and quantitative
(data)
-Adequate financial
aid available
- Three additional NC
Certified Transition Programs
-VR trained staff
provides all
needed support
- Survey info—campus inclusion
- Disseminate
public awareness
documents
- Finalize NC
Resource Guide
-Transition focus in
secondary school
is effective
- Think College benchmarks applied
- PSE public awareness needs addressed –
family/advocacy groups
- Policy initiatives include students with IDD;
20% more options
-Transition
awareness begins
as a young child
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- NC Resource Guide completed