2007-2011 |
Lauren Lindstrom & Bonnie Doren. PATHS: Post-school Achievement Through Higher Skills for Young Women with Disabilities, Secondary and Transition Services, Goal Two: Development, Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Total Award: $1,878,803.
This research project is focused on the development and testing of curriculum to meet the unique needs of young women with disabilities in making a successful transition from high school to postschool engagement.
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2007-2009 |
Lauren Lindstrom & Bonnie Doren. The Electronic Transition Portfolio System. Using E-Portfolios to Support the Transition from School to Post-school Environments. Technology and Media Services for Individuals with Disabilities Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities, Phase 1 Project, Office of Special Education Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education. Total Award: $399,929.
This project is focused on designing and testing a web-based portfolio system for high school students with disabilities.
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2004-2009 |
Lauren Lindstrom. Oregon Youth Transition Program. Oregon Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Total Award: $1,156,939.
State funded contract to provide training, technical assistance, and evaluation to a statewide network of 43 schools.
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2007-2012 |
Chris Murray. Project ACCESS: Accelerated Career Counseling and Employment Support Services. Funded by U.S. Department of Education (OSERS). Subcontract to UO. Total Award $2,826,500, Subcontract to UO $1,127, 390.
This project is designed to promote transition-related skills among students in high schools through a collaborative project between Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation and teachers in five local high schools.
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2007-2009 |
Chris Murray. Employment-Related Skills Training for Students with High-incidence Disabilities in Low-Income Schools. Hope Baney Fund. University of Oregon. Total Award: $15,000.
This project evaluates the effectiveness of the WAGES curriculum through a randomized trial implemented with 18 teachers in three high schools.
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2008-2011 |
Chris Murray. Hilary Gerdes, Co-PI. Expanding Cultural Awareness of Exceptional Learners: A Culture Change Model of Faculty Development (Project ExCEL). U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE). Total Award: $1,016,046.
This project will provide a model for university faculty development pertaining to college students with disabilities.
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2005-2008 |
Bonnie Doren. The "GAPS" Project: Understanding gender differences in young adult post-school outcomes. Field Initiated Research Projects: OSERS. Total Award: $539, 867.
The project funding has ended, but there is a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data on young adults with disabilities focusing on factors that make a difference in postschool outcomes.
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2007-2011 |
Bonnie Doren & Brigid K. Flannery. Building Effective and Meaningful IEPs for Secondary Aged Students. Special Education Research Grants Goal Two Type A. Institute of Education Sciences.Total Award: $1,529,866.
This research project is focused on the development and testing of a professional development model aimed at high school teachers to develop meaningful and effective IEPs for transition-aged students. The purpose of this grant is to improve the development, implementation and monitoring of IEPs at the secondary level. For the IEP to be effective in impacting post-school outcomes, as intended and mandated through IDEA, IEP case managers must change the process used to develop IEPs. We propose to develop a professional development training model that will result in more meaningful and effective IEPs.
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2007-2011 |
Brigid K. Flannery, Bonnie Doren, & Cynthia Anderson. Systematic analysis and model development for high school positive behavior support. Special Education Research Grants Goal Two Type A. Institute of Education Sciences.Total Award: $1,985,519.
This project is focused on the development and testing of a model of school-wide PBS that meets the unique needs and characteristics of high schools. This is a multistate project that proposes to develop and pilot model for the implementation of SWPBS in high schools.. The major purpose of this grant proposal is to: a) Identify factors that contribute to the success or failure of implementation of SWPBS in high schools, b) Develop a model to guide implementation of SWPBS in high schools, and c) Preliminarily evaluate effects of our model on important student outcomes.
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2007-2009 |
Brigid K. Flannery. Training and Technical Assistance Contract for Career Workforce Skills Training Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Total Award: $147,000 .
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has contracts for three sites for Career Workforce Site Training in 3 regions (Chemeketa Community College, Rogue Community College, Clackamas Community College). Through this contract we provide technical assistance to these programs and the local branch office in order to assist them in the development and expansion of their short term training programs to better serve OVRS consumers.
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2007-2012 |
Deanne Unruh & Chris Murray. Policy Advocacy, Instruction, and Research in Secondary Special Education and Transition. (Project PAIR). U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Preparation of Leadership Personnel. Total Award: 800,000.
This project will provide training to approximately six doctoral students in the area of Secondary Special Education & Transition.
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2008-2011 |
Deanne Unruh. Project READY: Research on Employability Skills for Adjudicated Youth with Disabilities. Institute of Educational Science. Total Award: $1,500,000.
Collaborative effort with 3 state juvenile justice agencies: Michigan, Maryland, and Oregon to redesign and test an employability social skill curriculum aligned with the mental health initiatives in the correctional settings. The curriculum will be aligned for implementation in both short and long-term correctional facilities.
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2008-2012 |
Deanne Unruh. Project WAGES: Working at Gaining Employment Skills. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Total Award: $400,000.
STAY OUT is a youth correctional facility-to-community transition project. The purpose of this grant is to develop a localized funding model for this project through local partners including the school districts, the Oregon Youth Authority, Workforce Investment Act agencies, and mental health.
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2008-2012 |
Deanne Unruh. Project STAY OUT: Strategies Teaching Young Offenders to Use Transition Skills. Dept. of Justice; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs. Total Award: $1,000,000.
This grant piloted the re-design of the WAGES curriculum and is completing initial testing of the curriculum in long-stay correctional facilities.
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2005-2009 |
Deanne Unruh. Project PREDICT: Predicting the recidivism and post-incarceration transition of formerly incarcerated youth with disabilities. Total Award: $540,000.
PREDICT is testing the predictive validity of the Oregon Youth Authority Risk Needs Assessment. Other tests of validity are currently being conducted on the instrument. Office of Special Education Programs, Research & Innovation Grant.
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2004-2009 |
Deanne Unruh. Jane Falls, Project Coordinator. National Post-School Outcomes Center (NPSO). Funded through the Office of Special Education Programs. Total Award: $3,500,000.
The NPSO provides knowledge development and technical assistance to all 60 SEAs to develop and use a post-school data collection system specifically related to measuring the employment and education outcomes of young adults with disabilities one year out of high school. These data are a reporting requirement to OSEP. National Outcome Centers.
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