{"id":473,"date":"2025-11-07T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/?p=473"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:09:56","slug":"teams-awards-presented-to-leaders-preparing-students-for-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/teams-awards-presented-to-leaders-preparing-students-for-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAMS Awards Presented to Leaders Preparing Students for Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>National Disability Employment Awareness Month was established as an annual awareness campaign each October to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America&#8217;s workers with disabilities. This year\u2019s national theme was \u201cCelebrating Value and Talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth year, the Institute for Disability Studies employment program staff presented Together Employing All Mississippi Students (TEAMS) Awards to two special education teachers and two Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services (MDRS) vocational counselors. These four award recipients were chosen based on their contributions in promoting employment and pre-employment training for youth and young adults with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s recipients were:<br \/>\nSuzanne Fulton, MDRS Rehabilitation Specialist, District 10<br \/>\nTracey Bennett, Hancock High School Special Education Case Manager<br \/>\nCatherine Byrd, MDRS Deputy District Manager, District 9<br \/>\nAmanda Mauldin, Sumrall High School Special Education Teacher<\/p>\n<p>The impact of this year\u2019s recipients\u2019 dedication stretches far and wide. IDS is proud to present these awards to recognize their commitment to promoting employment for youth and young adults with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDS\u2019s ToTAL (Transition of Teens to Adult Life) program funded by MDRS to provide Pre-Employment Training Services (Pre-ETS) to help students prepare for their futures, contact Beth Robertson (Long Beach campus) at 228-214-3422 or <a href=\"mailto:beth.robertson@usm.edu\">beth.robertson@usm.edu<\/a>, or Joseph King (Hattiesburg campus) at 601-266-4021 or <a href=\"mailto:joseph.a.king@usm.edu\">joseph.a.king@usm.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Disability Employment Awareness Month was established as an annual awareness campaign each October to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America&#8217;s workers with disabilities. This year\u2019s national theme was \u201cCelebrating Value and Talent.\u201d For the fourth year, the Institute for Disability Studies employment program staff presented Together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-november2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmids.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}