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…Know Who to Involve in Transition Planning?
Research shows that bringing together a multi agency team for transition planning is related to better youth adult outcomes.Explore resources and tools that help multi-agency teams plan together effectively.
Transition Planning and the IEP
Provides information about how to approach transition planning using the elements of the IEP transition planning process. Each step of the IEP transition planning process is explored.The goal is to create a way of thinking that aligns with the IEP process and also remains true to person-centered planning.
Fact Sheet: What is a Multiagency Team Meeting?
Use this Fact Sheet as a way to introduce youth, families, colleagues and partners to the idea of Multi Agency Team Planning.The spaces at the end of this Fact Sheet can be used as an invitation to the youth, family, school team members, agency partners and others to attend a Transition Planning Meeting.
IEP Team Particpants for Youth in Transition to Adult Life
This exerpt from Ohio's Operating Standards for Youth with disabiities lists the requirements for participants of a youth's IEP Team
Establishing a Community Multi-Agency Transition to Adult Life Team
Use these ten guiding questions to assist in the development of a collaborative Multi- Agency Community Team for Transition Youth. These agencies and organizations represent many of the individuals that can be included when planning transition to adult life with individual youth teams.
Secondary Transition Module - Interagency Collaboration
Ohio Department of Education-Office for Exceptional Children offers free online modules for IEP team members to learn to plan, implement and support high-quality secondary transition. One module focuses entirely on Interagency Collaboration, with tips, resources, and activities to engage all members of the transition team.
…Facilitate Meaningful Transition Planning?
Official agency documents, such as the IEP, are often referred to as ‘plans’.That can be true when ‘planning’ has taken place.Learn how to use tools and processes to put the ‘planning’ into the plan.
Backwards Planning Tools
Use these tools to begin or continue making plans over time for a youth's desired adult outcomes.Planning with the youth is most effective when done with teachers, agency partners and others.
Charting the LifeCourse tools
Charting the LifeCourse Webinar
Watch this information packed webinar to learn about Charting the LifeCourse tools for transition planning from school to adult life.
Charting the LifeCourse Transition to Adulthood
Sample of Charting the LifeCourse Tools
Use this short document to enhance transition planning discussions about adult life goals and the supports that may needed to achieve a meaningful adult life.
Sample of Charting the LifeCourse Tools
…Prepare For Employment?
Transition processes help identify gaps in needed skills and experiences for successful employment outcomes.Find out about tools, resources and services that could assist youth to gain employment related skills.
Vocational Planning Tool
Identify the conditions for success in employment and targets for skill development during employment preparation based on preferences, interests, needs and strengths.
Pre-Employment Transition Services(Pre-ETS)
OOD offers introductory services intended to help students with disabilities get an early start in identifying career interests.
What Works For Work
Materials and tools for professional development to improve practioners' knowledge and skill of how to teach and use evidence based practices
Preparing Transition-Age Youth with Disabilities for Work: What School Leaders Need to Know About the New Legal Landscape
This Institute for Educational Leadership's (IEL) policy brief is intended to inform school leaders about their responsibilities under recent case law to prepare youth with disabilities for work and careers. Information within this brief supports the efforts made by state, regional, and local agencies across Ohio to promote competitive integrated employment for all students, including those with the most significant disabilities.
Unpaid Work Experiences, Volunteering, and Internships: What’s Allowed.
The State Employment Leadership Network (SELN) updated guidance (Dec 2019) to states about how employment services are defined, implemented, and reimbursed, about how to view certain work experiences, and how to strategically use volunteer opportunities and unpaid work options.
Unpaid Work Experiences, Volunteering, and Internships: What’s Allowed.
Job Seekers Guide
The Job Seekers Guide is training about community employment. It provides step by step instructions and resources on how to get on the path to community employment and find a job that you enjoy.
…Determine What Transition Service and Support Options to Consider?
Making decisions aboutservices is more than choosing from a menu.First, it's important to know what the student needs.Explore tools and information about services and supports and ways to identify youth needs.
Navigating Agency Support
This tool provides tips, guidance and information about working with agencies that provide employment services and support. It includes practices and planning strategies, as well as downloadable documents that can be used to help teams work to determine services that might meet the youth’s need.
SST AATA Library
Explore resources for formal and informal transition assessment. Individualized services and supports for youth are best determined based on data and information, gained through transition assessment.First identifying a youth's post-school goals and a proile of his/her Preferences, Interests, Needs, Strengths/Skills (PINS) increases the likelihood that servcies and supports will be effective in providing the youth with skills and experiences that lead to acheiving desired post-school outcomes.
Unpaid Work Experiences, Volunteering, and Internships: What’s Allowed.
The State Employment Leadership Network (SELN) updated guidance (Dec 2019) to states about how employment services are defined, implemented, and reimbursed, about how to view certain work experiences, and how to strategically use volunteer opportunities and unpaid work options.
Unpaid Work Experiences, Volunteering, and Internships: What’s Allowed.
Multi Agency Transition Planning Materials
Guidance for multi agency teams for systematically planning to conduct Transition Assessment and Transition Planning
Career Planning Services - A Waiver Service through the County Board of DD
The Career Planning Service is designed to assist eliglibe youth find jobs in the community.The outcome of Career Planning is to gain competitive, integrated employment or career advancement in a competitive, integrated job.The person’s service and support administrator, or SSA, will assess them for a need for Career Planning. If there is a need, the SSA will include it in the person’s individual service plan.
Career Planning Services - A Waiver Service through the County Board of DD
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