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LINKS
Transition
 Adolescent Health Transition Project
Resources for adolescents with special health care needs, chronic illnesses, physical or developmental disabilities. Includes Adolescent Autonomy Checklist, an aid to keep track of a child's skills at home, in the community, leisure time & for the future.
Age of Majority: Preparing Your Child for Making Choices
Parent brief on the transfer of educational decision-making rights at the age of majority when students become responsible for their own IEP.
Alliance for Excellent Education
Alliance focuses at-risk secondary school students who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. Includes published reports.
America’s One-Stop System
Links to connecting employment, education & training services into a coherent network of resources at the state, local, and national level.
Business Leadership Network
Accessing, incorporating individuals with disabilities for the workforce.
Center for Self-Determination
Community Inclusion
Publications, videos on transition issues such as postsecondary education, SSI, Person-centered planning & other health care issues, including free pdf & for fee booklets on transition planning.
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation – Wisconsin
Updates on waiting lists, eligibility criteria & state funding for programs can be found at this site. State contact people are also listed & on-line application for DVR services included.
Family's Guide to High School and College Success
Resources that can help families guide their youth to post secondary and employment success.
Federal Office for Personnel Management
Opportunities for youth with disabilities, transition & employment issues
Full Life Ahead
Workbook to help families successfully work through the transition process.
Guardianship, Trusts, etc.
Arc
Information on guardianship, trusts and other futures planning issues.
Making a Difference: Thinking about Decision-Making Support in the Transition Process
Guardianship decisions from the perspective of self-determination principles.
GED and students with LD and/or ADHD
Healthy & Ready to Work – WI Waisman Center
Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Long Term Care program – Wisconsin
National Center on Workforce and Disability
Workforce and disability issues-- designing access for all, policy analysis,
NCWD training and consultation services.
http://www.onestops.info
 http://www.ncwd-youth.info/
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
Focus on secondary education and transition of youth with disabilities. Site includes teleconference transcripts & many publications.
National Institute on Life Planning for Persons with Disabilities
Needs Assessment for Students with Significant Disabilities
Online self-paced training module provides a needs assessment tool that can be used to evaluate educational services received by students 17-21 with significant disabilities. Module includes step-by-step instructions, downloadable forms & a PowerPoint presentation that can be used to train others.
Olmstead Act
Olmstead websites
Information & reports about the Act to eliminate barriers & promote community integration
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/reclaimlives.html
http://www.hhs.gov/newfreedom/presidentrpt.html
http://www.biausa.org/policyexecorder.htm
http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs000201.htm
http://www.adagreatlakes.org/training/supplements/olmstead.htm
http://www.gldbtac.org/transcript/implementolmstead.htm
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/olmsreport.htm
http://www.c-c-d.org/od-dec00.htm
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/olmstead/olmslink.htm
http://ici.umn.edu/ncset/events/transcripts/2002/03_21.html
http://www.ncset.org/teleconferences/transcripts/2002_03.asp
http://aamr.allenpress.com/aamronline/?request=get-toc&issn=0047-6765&volume=41&issue=4
Community Living Systems change grants
Money Management
Essential money management publication (fee) with interactive worksheets & exercises.
Parents Role in Transition to Adult Life
Person-centered Planning
Resources
Resources for the process of IEP or adult service planning that focuses on who the person is, what he or /she is good at, enjoys and wants for the future.
Guides to Person-Centered Planning
http://www.ncddr.org/du/researchexchange/v08n03/REv8n3.pdf
http://www.communityinclusion.org/publications/pub.php?page=newpubs#ib16
Person-Centered Planning Tools
for use in person-centered planning
Personal Portfolio and Filing System (PROFiler)
Tool designed by students for students that provides a way to organize important documents, keep records of school & community learning opportunities & create a personal portfolio of accomplishments.
Preparing for the World of Work
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work
Book on how parents can help teenagers prepare employment
RSA (Rehabilitation Services Administration)
Research assessing performance of the Vocational Rehabilitation program in assisting eligible individuals to achieve positive, sustainable outcomes as a result of their receipt of VR services.
Self-Determination/Self-Advocacy
Peer Mentoring/Support Project
Report on range of activities to help young people with disabilities develop their confidence and skills as they move into independent adulthood.
Kids as Self-Advocates
KASA is a national, grassroots network of youth with special needs and our friends, speaking on behalf of ourselves, to spread helpful, positive information among our peers to increase knowledge around various issues.
My Future My Plan
Curriculum designed to motivate & guide students with disabilities & their families as they begin early transition planning for life after high school. It promotes positive attitudes and self-advocacy.
Project Teams
Resources on transition, employment, advocacy, mentoring & self-determination.
RealChoices
Information to empower people of all ages and abilities giving them the opportunity to make self-determined choices to participate in their communities in ways meaningful to them.
Self-Determination
Self-Determination: Supporting Successful Transition
Development of self-determination skills & student-led Individualized Education Program meetings, includes curricula and helpful Web links.
YouthSpeak
Collection of presentations on transition developed by youth leaders.
Self-Directed Support Corporations
Microboards
Families & friends of individuals with disabilities form support organizations, obtain
medicaid providers status & DD funds with the object of solely supporting an individual.
http://www.microboard.org
http://www.self-determination.com/publications/microboard.htm
http://www.self-determined.org/QandA.htm
Work-based Learning
Work-based learning & answers to key questions by experts at Natl. Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth
Ticket to Work Program
Ticket helps people with disabilities on SSA rolls go to work; can be redeemed for vocational rehab., job training, etc. from employment service providers.
http://www.ssa.gov/work/Ticket/ticket.html
http://www.childrenshospital.org/ici/publications/text/pb8text.html
Training Resource Network Disability Update
On-line monthly newsletter on resources for community inclusion and employment of people with disabilities.
Transition Coalition
Information, support and linkages related to transition.
Transition to adult life for students with disabilities
Indiana Link
Transition Info. for Families
Transition timeline, adult care providers, teaching sheets from IL Div. Specialized Care for Children
Transition Link
Online community for sharing ideas, strategies, resources & information about transition.
What Works
Transition Research Synthesis project (OSEP) synthesis of 20 years data on transition/publications.
Transition Resource Network/Supported Employment
U.S. Dept. Of Labor
Youth-focused site.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Issues in VR that can affect relationship between VR and One-Stop system
WI Statewide Transition Initiative
WDPI discretionary project that offers a comprehensive approach to improving transition planning in WI. Includes statewide transition contacts, interagency agreements, point of entry manuals, schedule of upcoming transition-related conferences and resource list.
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