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Secondary Transition Components - All Resources






Agency/Organization Description/Mission/Purpose Actions
PACER's National Parent Center on Transition and Employment

Provides high quality assistance and support to parents, youth, and professionals on transition topics. This innovative new project will keep the needs of families at the forefront and help youth with disabilities find success in postsecondary education, employment, and life in the community.

Parent Center Hub-Transition to Adulthood

The national, federally funded parent training and information center. CPIR is a central “Hub” of information and products created for the network of Parent Centers serving families of children with disabilities. The CPIR employs a user-centered process, gathering the perspectives of our experienced audience—Parent Center staff members and other experts—every step of the way, to create products and services that increase Parent Centers’ knowledge and capacity in specific domains. Cost: Free to users. Federally funded The CPIR is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S. Department of Education. OSEP supports the Parent Center network and the role that Parent Centers play in educating parents and improving outcomes for children with disabilities.

Project 10

Project 10 is a Transition Education Network provided by the University of S. Florida to assist Florida school districts and relevant stakeholders in building capacity to provide secondary transition services to students with disabilities in order to improve their academic success and post-school outcomes.

Project SEARCH

Large international network of Project SEARCH program sites. Provide technical assistance, program evaluation, program development, and continuous improvement.

Rethinking Guardianship- Supported Decision Making, ARC Michigan

Ensure people with disabilities are fully included and participate in their local communities. Cost: free resources

Seattle University, Center for Change in Transition

Works to empower educators and administrators to improve transition services for youth with disabilities through partnerships, research, and training

START Project

Works with schools, community partners, and families to support students with ASD to become active, engaged members of their schools and local communities, and successfully move into adulthood as independent individuals with many choices and opportunities.

START Project

Works with schools, community partners, and families to support students with ASD to become active, engaged members of their schools and local communities, and successfully move into adulthood as independent individuals with many choices and opportunities.

Supported Decision Making

Information about supported decision-making in Michigan, encouraging individuals with disabilities to take an active role in decisions about their lives. This includes issues related to guardianship, alternatives to guardianship, health care, education, and living.

T-Folio

T-Folio is a free transition portfolio tool for high school-age youth with disabilities. It is designed to guide youth in exploring, identifying, and planning for their desired post-school goals. This tool represents a compilation of activities and products showcasing each youth’s ongoing transition process. It is their individual story of who they are, where they have been, and where they are headed after high school. This tool was designed in Washington state through the collaboration of the Center for Change in Transition Services (CCTS) and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR). It aligns with both IEP transition planning and DVR's Pre-Employment Transition Services so that both educators and agency personnel will find it useful in working with youth. Cost: free to users.

The Arc Michigan

Provides leadership and support in their vision that all people realize and fulfill their dreams of having employment, education, meaningful relationships, and living independently within their community.

Transition TN

Training and resources on preparing students with disabilities for life after high school, and improving outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities, by sharing research-based practices and policies. The site is organized into different sections for educators, for providers, and for students. Each includes free video-based lessons, ideas, resources, and much more. Create a free account to use the resources.

Transition TN

Tennessee's online home for training and resources on preparing students with disabilities for life after high school. Our goal is to improve transition outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities by sharing research-based practices and policies. Our site is organized into different sections for educators, for providers, and for students. Each includes free video-based lessons, ideas, resources, and much more. Cost: free to users. To access training, create a free account.

Transition TN

Tennessee's online home for training and resources on preparing students with disabilities for life after high school. Our goal is to improve transition outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities by sharing research-based practices and policies. The site is organized into different sections for educators, for providers, and for students. Each includes free video-based lessons, ideas, resources, and much more.

United States Department of Education (USDE), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative

In this updated transition guide, OSERS added information about dual enrollment and the ABLE Act. OSERS also hopes this transition guide will help students and youth with disabilities and their families to better understand how the state education agencies (SEA), the local education agencies (LEA), and the vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies work together to facilitate improved outcomes for students and youth with disabilities.

University of Maine: Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Maine’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). CCIDS is a member of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), a national network of congressionally authorized,university-based centers sponsored by the Office on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

University of Massachusetts - Institute for Community Inclusion

Supports the rights of children and adults with disabilities to participate in all aspects of society. As practitioners, researchers, and teachers, we form partnerships with individuals, families, and service agencies. Together we advocate for personal choice, self-determination, and social and economic justice.

University of Oklahoma-Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment

Promotes successful transition outcomes for all students, and implements innovative research, puts findings to practice, and disseminates knowledge through quality products and professional development

US Department of Education: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services

OSERS supports programs that help educate children and youth with disabilities and provides for the rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities. OSERS provides a wide array of support to parents and individuals, school districts and states in two main areas—special education and vocational rehabilitation—through its two main components: OSEP and RSA.

Virginia Commonwealth University-The Center for Family Involvement at the Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University

Works with families to increase their skills as advocates, mentors, and leaders so families, children, and young adults with disabilities can lead the lives they want.

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