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Transportation Advocacy Fellowship

Partners for Youth with Disabilities

Boston, MA | Intern

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Partners for Youth with Disabilities is Hiring a Transportation Advocacy Fellowship Near Boston, MA

About Partners for Youth with Disabilities

The mission of Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD) is to empower youth with disabilities to reach their full potential by providing transformative mentoring programs, youth development opportunities, and inclusion expertise. PYD motivates youth to reach their personal, educational, and career goals, and guides organizations in becoming more inclusive to youth with disabilities. PYD is a pioneer in its space. Founded in 1985

a full five years before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act – PYD began as a one-to-one mentoring program for youth with disabilities, providing these youth with adult role models and, through these mentors, an extended support system. Over the past 35 years, PYD has established itself as a national, highly sought after leader in its field, with a reputation for delivering innovative and high-quality programs and services. PYD empowers more than 500 youth annually through direct service programs and has delivered inclusion best practices training to more than 10,000 individuals across 300 organizations, spanning 13 states. PYD delivers impact at both the local and national levels, including:

Transportation Advocacy Fellowship Project Background

In 2017, PYD implemented the Transportation Advocacy Mentoring Initiative (TAMI) in partnership with Easterseals, which leveraged the power of mentoring to increase the skills and knowledge around transportation planning and advocacy for 7-10 young adults with disabilities (mentees). The result of this project was a Transportation Advocacy Mentoring Initiative Implementation Guide, which was released at the 2018 convention of the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.The proposed project will build upon the TAMI project and leverage the perspectives of young adults with disabilities to inform mobility management professionals by developing a professional development guide.The goal of the fellowship is for young adults with disabilities to advance the understanding of engaging youth with disabilities in transportation coordination and mobility management. The fellowship will culminate in a short guide for mobility management professionals to help these professionals engage youth in community coordination.

Fellowship Position Description

The transportation advocacy fellow will research, write and edit a transportation advocacy guide and support the creation of an online transportation advocacy training module. The creation of the guide will occur in July & August of 2024 and the final project will be presented at a national webinar in the fall of 2024. The project will take approximately 5 hours/week over the course of the summer and fellows will receive a stipend of $1,500 for their work at the end of the fellowship. The final project will be embedded in LEARN, PYD’s learning management system, which is used by Mobility Management Connections and disseminated to a national audience.

Qualifications

- Strong time management and project management skills
- Strong research and writing skills
- Background in transportation advocacy
- Demonstrates accuracy, comprehensiveness, and attention to detail
- Is a self-starter, able to work independently, and to identify work needed to be completed.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team; seeks and allows in support appropriately, including receiving feedback and information
- Strong preference for lived experience as a person with a disability