The focus of the Transition Work Group quality improvement project is to gather and share information about the process of transition. The work group will identify resources and best practices to increase the understanding of what people with disabilities need to consider as they transition to adulthood.
Transition Resources
Transition Folder
- Table of Contents
- One Page Profile
- Checklist of things to consider from grade 7 through the transition to adulthood. Includes links for more information.
- Resource Guide
- What Does It Take: Life Course Tools
- Volunteer/Job Log
- When-Do-I-Want-Support
- What you can add to the folder:
- Current IEP
- Resume
- Job performance review
- Agency list
General transition resources
- Into Adulthood: Your Guide to Disability Access from MN Disability Law Center
- Transition Services Basics WCRQ workshop 4-30-24
- Transition Services Basics –PowerPoint Pdf
- Recording
- Disability Hub MN A free statewide resource that helps solve problems, navigate the system, and plan for your future
- Transition to adulthood
- My Vault A secure online tool to complete planning activities as well as save & share information securely with people who support you
- My Vault training video overview
- Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) tools and information on health coverage, benefits, and employment. Learn how work & benefits go together.
- Housing Benefits 101 (HB101) tools and information to explore and plan for housing at any life stage.
- Middle & High School Transition Planning – National Parent Center on Transition and Employment (pacer.org)
- A Guide to Preparing Your Child with a Disability for Life Beyond High School (pacer.org)
- The Transition to Independent Living: What Parents Can Do Now (pacer.org)
- Transition Planning for Young Adults With Disabilities (pacer.org)
- The Minnesota Olmstead Plan is a set of goals our state must meet so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work, and enjoy life alongside everyone else in the community
Person Centered Planning
- LifeCourse Tools – set of tools to help you get started on Exploring or Planning Your “Good Life”
- Charting the LifeCourse – help individuals develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live.
- It’s My Choice from the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
Self-Advocacy
- Involving young students in their IEP meeting
- I’m determined to succeed- tools and support to help you set goals, be heard, and reach for the stars
- 10 Self-Advocacy Tips for Young People with Disabilities
- Self-Advocate training that Waivers can pay for
- Take A Class! – Upstream Arts Home
- Self-Advocacy Training and Support | MNDSA – Minnesota Disability Support Alternatives (for transition age 14-24)
- Self-Advocacy Academy – ACT (selfadvocacy.org) – Advocating Change Together (ACT) disability rights and inclusion
The Arc Minnesota
- Free Resources: Planning for the Future – The Arc Minnesota
- GetSet! Interest Mapping Tool – The Arc Minnesota
- Creating Connections Workbook – The Arc Minnesota
- 2023 A Life of One’s Own Resource Guide
Regional Quality Council Resource Guide for Adults with Disabilities
From The Arc US
- Deciding Where to Live
- Financing the Future
- Employment & Daily Activities
- Supporting Daily & Major Life Decisions
- Making Social Connections
Guardianship and Supported Decision Making
- The Arc Minnesota Bill of Rights for People under Guardianship with Worksheets (1)
- The Arc Minnesota Bill of Rights for People under Guardianship with Worksheets (Fillable)
- Rethinking Guardianship: The Promise of Supported Decision Making. recording from 11/14/23 WCRQC training
- Guardianship & SDM Explained –videos
- How to Make a Supported Decision-Making Agreement – A Guide for People with Disabilities and their Families
- Guardianship: Minnesota Judicial Branch – GetForms (mncourts.gov)
- MN Conservatorship & Guardianship Training (courtlms.org)
- Center for Excellence in Supported Decision Making – (CESDM)
- Consultation, referrals and information to individuals who are at risk of guardianship or conservatorship and their caregivers
- Assistance navigating guardianship, conservatorship, and less restrictive alternatives
- Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders (WINGS)
- MAGIC – MN Association for Guardianship and Conservatorship
- Supported Decision-Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices – National Resource Center for Supported Decision-Making
- Determining areas of need (moguardianship.com)
- When-Do-I-Want-Support.pdf (cfsny.org)
- Facilitating Choice Steps
- LetMeDoIt app for decision making
- I can add decisions and decision steps
- I can add decision aids which can guide and help me
- I can add people who can help
Recent Supported Decision Making/Guardianship webinars
- Rethinking Guardianship: The Promise of Supported Decision Making
recording from 11/14/23 WCRQC training - What Every Guardian Should Know About Supported Decision Making & Other Less Restrictive Alternatives (12/2022)
- SDM & Guardianship: Which One is Right for Me? (11/2022; younger adult examples)
Life Skills
- Apartment Ready Checklist
- The Life Skills Manual:
- Tech Handout for Money Workshop 2023.pdf – Google Drive
- Handout for Pacer Managing Money Workshop July 2023
- Tools to Support Meal Planning and Cooking – Pacer handout
Healthcare Transition
- Got Transition® – National Resource Center on Health Care Transition
- Infographic about Transitioning to Adult Health Care
- Transition to Adult Health Care – National Parent Center on Transition and Employment (pacer.org)
- Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth
Employment
- RQC Technology for Independence PowerPoint 5/30/24
Recording - Make Work Part of your Plan video: The University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration video and webinar series on employment supports and services
- Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) – helps students with disabilities learn about themselves, understand work requirements, practice work skills, choose a career, and explore training options.
- Definitions
- Work-Based Learning Experience
- Job Exploration Counseling
- Postsecondary Education Counseling
- The Transition/Pre-ETS Inventory is a tool that can completed with the youth, family, and other support team members. It allows for the identification and prioritization of the youth’s strengths and needs.
- Engage, Plan, Find, Keep Framework
- E1MN: Minnesota’s state agency partnership to advance Employment First outcomes for youth and adults with disabilities.
Each working-age Minnesotan with a disability can be offered the opportunity to work and earn a competitive wage before being offered other supports and services
- Employment services for home and community-based services (HCBS) waivers
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS) Student Career Services: Connecting Students to Work
- Think Work – Transition
Post Secondary Education
- Think College provides resources, technical assistance and training related to college options for students with intellectual disabilities. Manages the only national listing of college programs for students with intellectual disability in the United States.
- Minnesota & ND colleges with programs for students with intellectual disabilities
Financial
- Financial Planning PowerPoint
WCRQC Workshop 2/22/2024 Recording - ABLE Account, Special Needs and Pooled Trust Comparison Chart (ablenrc.org)
- Q&A Forum on Financial Planning– ABLE accounts and Trusts
- Financial Wellness Tools -online fillable worksheets for a variety of things related to goal setting, budgeting, spending, ABLE, and benefits
- Pacer Social Security Webinar 12/5/23
