Norciva Shumpert is currently a private consultant working with Marc Gold & Associates and Employment For All, a non profit organization committed to employment for all persons. She is also a founding member of Employment For All. She has been working as a consultant with the state of Texas since 1996 in their statewide initiative to increase supported employment services and decrease sheltered/enclave services and now is working with their self determination initiative. She co-directed a UCPA/Department of Labor, “One Stop to Success” project, a national project designed to implement the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. She served as co-director for the Choice Access Project, one of seven demonstration projects in the nation funded as a result of the 1992 Amendments to the Rehab Act. While at United Cerebral Palsy Association, she was also project director for a 40 site national Projects with Industry (PWI) project in the early ‘90's that employed over 1,000 persons with significant disabilities.

She provides training and consultation regarding employment throughout the US. She consults with schools, mental health centers, families, and other community providers or projects on issues relating to employment, transition, and consumer choice and control of resources obligated on their behalf. She has worked with several school systems and resource centers to improve employment and community outcomes for students, with Medicaid providers to offer consumers an opportunity to control and direct their services, and with funding sources to increase customer control through various fiscal options and to plan using person directed planning processes.

In the early 90’s she was Mississippi’s Infant Toddler Coordinator of the Part H Funds for the Mississippi State Department of Health, and was part of the team that was instrumental in passing legislation for a statewide comprehensive system of services for infants and toddlers with special needs. She worked with the MS/UAP to create a family centered system for families and their children to obtain services directed from their Individualized Family Service Plan by the provider of their choice. During the seventies and eighties, Norciva worked to build services for persons of all ages with special needs through a local community mental health center. She developed and coordinated early intervention home and clinic based services, school based resource services, case management services, supported employment services, business contracts, sheltered work services, group home services, and supported living services. Norciva and her family live in Gautier, Mississippi.