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Shumpert
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.
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