NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Inclusive STEM Workforce Development Program

NSF包括规划补助金：包容性STEM劳动力发展计划NSF包括规划补助金由NSF在全国范围内纳入未被充分代表的工程和科学发现者社区(NSF Includes)资助，这是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的规模参与来加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。这项规划赠款的目标是扩大对STEM工作场所的参与，并提高雇主雇用和留住有智力和发育障碍的合格员工的能力。目前的工作将调查辛辛那提STEM无障碍联盟内的工作场所培训和指导，以支持在STEM工作场所招聘、选拔和保留智力和发育障碍人士。该项目将建立在辛辛那提STEM无障碍联盟以前建立的协作基础设施的基础上，以制定一个跨大学以及地方和国家STEM公司的广泛网络的领导和沟通计划。这个国家合作伙伴网络将合作制定一个共同的愿景，以解决该领域的一个重要问题。这个NSF包括规划拨款项目将使工作场所支持模式的合作设计和开发成为可能，该模式将有可能改变传统的工作指导计划，这些计划通常将自闭症员工置于与世隔绝的工作环境中，并将STEM行业推向完全整合和创新的劳动力队伍，包括神经多样化的视角。超出当前规划拨款项目范围的未来活动有可能导致在广泛的STEM行业和环境中进一步评估、开发和实施工作场所培训计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Inclusive STEM Workforce Development ProgramThis NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is broadening participation in STEM workplaces and increasing the ability of employers to hire and retain well qualified employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The current work will investigate the workplace training and mentoring within the Cincinnati STEM Accessibility Alliance to support the recruitment, selection, and retention of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the STEM workplace. This project will build upon the collaborative infrastructure previously established by the Cincinnati STEM Accessibility Alliance to develop a leadership and communication plan across a broad network of universities and local and national STEM companies. This network of national partners will collaboratively develop a shared vision to address a significant issue to the field.This NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant project will enable the collaborative design and development of a workplace support model that will have the potential to shift the traditional job coaching programs that most often place employees with autism in secluded workplace environments, and move STEM industries towards a fully integrated and innovative workforce inclusive of neurodiverse perspectives. Future activities beyond the scope of this current planning grant project have the potential to lead to further evaluation, development, and implementation of workplace training programs across a wide range of STEM-industries and environments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.