Throughout four deliberation sessions, Assembly Members decided to advance this idea to one of the final borough ballots for New Yorkers to vote on. The idea has been edited by Assembly Members and CEC staff to fit ballot character limits and remove all references to specific institutions and geographies. Here is the final idea title and description as it will appear on the ballot:
Educate All in the Community
The GRACE Foundation of New York
On the Ballot
- Idea Submission for The People's Money:
- Educating mainstream students about the disabled community and careers with the disabled community would involve after school interaction, training programs, after school information sessions, on-job opportunities with the disabled community, afterschool resource fairs with the disabled community, job fairs with the disabled community, flyers, social media campaigns to recruit high school students to careers with the disabled community, outreach to business for job fair and training.
- What is the problem your idea aims to address?
- With the goal towards helping the disabled community, students in mainstream education need more interacting with information about this community. High school students need education and career opportunities with the disabled community.
- Which groups does your idea focus on? Select all that apply
- People with Disabilities
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