Community Spotlight Podcast – Episode 8: Interview with Dr. Nicholas Wright

Community Spotlight Podcast – Episode 7: Impactful Stories

January 2024 KSHEP Newsletter Owensboro and WKU’s approved Comprehensive Transition Programs brings the total CTPs to six in the Commonwealth. A spotlight on UK’s CCS Program. View newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter!

Program Spotlight: University of Kentucky College and Career Studies Program Fall 2023 Semester Highlights Career Exploration and Community Engagement 5 students are also working toward an undergraduate certificate in Universal Design. During the semester, practicum students explored their career interests by engaging in campus and community activities. Highview Arts Center | Theater Focus Justin helped the team at Highview Arts Center prepare for a sensory-friendly performance of their production of A Christmas Carol. He researched and shared information with them and also helped set up an area where attendees could go take a break during the show when needed. It was a HUGE success. Read more about Highview Lexington Writer’s Room | Literary Focus Will spent time learning about local and regional writing communities, and ways to connect with them. He focused on the design of both the physical spaces and also events and processes related to the literary community.

Western Kentucky CTP Approved Western Kentucky University’s application to the US Dept of Ed to establish a CTP has been approved. WKU’s program is the 6th Comprehensive Transition Program that has been approved in the Commonwealth. Read More

Community Spotlight Podcast – Episode 6: Interview with PAWSibilities Unleashed and Christy Almond

Resource: The Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities The Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities website is an online resource center that can be used by youth and young adults with disabilities between the ages of 12-26 and their families and caregivers to learn about how to move (transition) from pediatric health care to adult health care. Pediatric health care is medical care for children ages birth to age 18.  Once children reach age 18, they are most often referred to an adult healthcare provider. This website provides resources that empower youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities to become self-advocates in the transition process without gaps in health care service. The website provides videos for youth with disabilities to view that help them to understand their healthcare transition. Youth can listen to the real-life story of Hunter, who is a young adult with a disability,

Community Spotlight Podcast – Episode 5: Interview with Sam Gleaves

University of Kentucky College and Career Studies students launch new podcast: Community Spotlight Community Spotlight is a podcast highlighting different things on campus and in the community. It was started by Callie and Sara, two students in the College and Career Studies program at the University of Kentucky. Students explore campus or community events, resources, or activities each week and then work together to create a podcast episode featuring a chosen Community Spotlight. Listen to the Community Spotlight Podcast.