Local News
Transition Fair helps people with disabilities
Morehead State University students are hosting an inaugural Transition Fair to help people with disabilities learn about college and employment opportunities.
Organizing the fair are students in a Transition to Adult Life class in the Department of Early Childhood Elementary and Special Education at MSU. The fair is Nov. 6 from noon to 3 p.m. on the third floor of the Adron Doran University Center.
“The Transition Fair provides students with information not only regarding college, but employment and community opportunities," said Dr. Sarah Hawkins, who teaches the class.
“We have local, regional and state agencies attending the fair,” Hawkins said. “We will have local businesses that hire disabled people as well.”
Local, regional and state businesses and employers will have booths with information about their business and what it has to offer people with disabilities, Hawkins said.
The following businesses will be at the fair:
• KY Office of the Blind
• KY Special Parent Involvement Network
• MSU-Disability Services
• Protection and Advocacy
• Carl D. Perkins Center
• Arc of Kentucky
• Vocational Rehabilitation-Melissa Elliott
• Kevin Howard, Indiana/Kentucky Regional Council of Carpenters
• Institute of Human Development-IHDI (UK)
• Merrill Lynch
• Adult Learning Center
• Big Lots
• CiCi's Pizza
• Maysville Community and Technical College
• CAKY-Morehead
• Tractor Supply
• Champion Supports and Services
• Active Day of Ashland
• Stewart Home School
• Independent Place
• Big East Special Education Consultant-Lisa Parsons
• KY Housing Corporation
• Special Olympics
• Mountain Comp
• Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Liz Snyder-Ashland CCSHCN, Audiologist
• KY Business Leadership Network
• Career and Technical Education-Fleming Co.
• Tiffany Looney-Big East Regional Interagency Transition Team Parent Rep.
• Heather Shelton-ADA Coordinator at ACC
• Big East Transition Consultant-Carol Cooksey
The event is being conducted as a Learning Service Project for the students in the special education class.
“We applied for the $2,955 Learning Service Grant earlier this year,” Hawkins added. “We received the grant in April. The grant was funded by the Learn and Serve America through the Kentucky and Louisiana Campus Compacts.”
The class is using the funds for postage for mailings, printing, posters for the fair and traveling expenses for four students who will attend the Kentucky Council for Exceptional Children Conference Nov. 22-24. There the students will be making presentations about the Transition Fair to show how the class used the funds from the grant.
“Each student has a job to do in the fair,” she said.
The class has been planning the fair since August.
More than 200 high school and middle school students from surrounding counties will be attending. Many of the schools are within 100 miles of MSU.
“Special education professors will be here to talk to students about what's available,” said student Karen Roberts.
For more information about the Transition Fair, contact Hawkins at 783-2830.
- Local News
-
-
Hero comes home
A U.S. Navy honor guard carried the remains of SOC Collin T. Thomas from a chartered aircraft that landed Friday at the Clyde A. Thomas Regional Airport.
-
CHER dedication attracts overflow crowd
The new $30 million Center for Health, Education and Research at St. Claire Regional Medical Center was dedicated Friday in a joyful celebration that attracted more than 400 persons, including two governors.
-
Nineteen indicted by grand jury
A Morehead man was indicted by a Rowan County grand jury Aug. 20 for the alleged sodomy of a juvenile under age 12 more than two decades ago.
-
Pharmacy burglar pleads guilty
A Clearfield man pled guilty last month in Rowan Circuit Court to the 2007 break-in of Holbrook Drug store. Kenneth Eldridge, 20, of Clearfield was sentenced to six years in prison probated for five years.
-
Sex offender gets two years behind bars
A former Morehead Inspiration Center Program Director and Pathways employee was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for child pornography.
-
Fallen officer remembered by daughter
The daughter of one of Morehead’s law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty has fond memories of her father.
-
MSU basketball program on probation
Morehead State University’s men’s basketball program has been placed on probation for two years after the NCAA determined the program had committed violations in its recruiting related to a booster activity.
-
Motorist charged with murder
A Lewis County man was indicted by a Rowan County grand jury Friday on two counts of murder, accused of killing a Clearfield couple in a car accident.
-
'Bigger and better': Poppy Mountain back to tradition
The legend of the third weekend in September continues this year as, after a short time away, Marty Stevens returns as the owner and promoter of Poppy Mountain.
-
Former jailer pleads guilty to DUI
Former jailer Tim Bryant has pleaded guilty to a charge of driving under the influence and possession of an open alcoholic beverage container in a vehicle.
- More Local News Headlines
-
