School superintendents from each district were presented with the Partners in Progress toward Inclusion certificates of merit by the New Brunswick Association for Community Living (NBACL) during its national Inclusive Education Achievement Awards ceremony.
Beginning in September, 2006, NBACL partnered with District 10 to develop ways to engage and involve high school youth to make their schools more inclusive. The partnership continued in 2009, allowing NBACL’s Transition Coordinator to work with students to create and implement a plan which will prepare them to participate in community life after high school. The Hon. Roland Haché, Minister of Education for NB. accepted the Award for School District 10 as Superintendent Derrick O'Brien was not able to attend the event.
A successful project that has come out of this partnership is the Workforce Development Program. Since 2006 NBACL has been working with 10 grade 12 students a year to help them acquire job readiness skills and Co-op education with employers within the community. The goal is to have the employer hire the studentafter graduation from high school.
NBACL, a provincial non-profit organization which works on behalf of children and adults with an intellectual disability and their families, recognized School Districts 6, 10, 14, 17 and 18 for their work in partnering with them on various initiatives to test approaches and find tools and strategies to improve inclusive education.
