Supported Employment
People who meet Virginia’s graduation requirements achieve the Commonwealth’s standards and graduate from high school with workplace skills, an understanding of their responsibilities as citizens, and career plans aligned with their talents, interests, and experiences. Consider planning for gainful employment in advance of your child’s senior year of high school.
Department of Aging and Rehab Services (DARS)
Virginia DARS supports a person’s efforts to secure independence, inclusionPractices and policies designed to identify and remove barriers such as physical, communication, and attitudinal, that hamper a person’s ability to have full participation in society, the same as people without disabilities., and integration. The mission of DARSVirginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. State agency whose mission is to improve the employment, quality of life, security, and independence of older Virginians, Virginians with disabilities, and their families. is to improve the employment, quality of life, security, and independence of aging people, people with disabilitiesThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. This includes people who have a record of such an impairment, even if they do not currently have a disability. It also includes people who do not have a disability but are regarded as having a disability. The ADA also makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person based on that person’s association with a person with a disability., and their families.