Transition
News
8/19/2010
Charting the Course: Supporting the Career Development of Youth with Learning Disabilities
from This guide is intended to help practitioners, administrators, and policymakers in secondary and postsecondary education programs, transition programs, One-Stop Career Centers, youth employment programs, and community rehabilitation programs improve services and outcomes for youth, ages 14 to 25, with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities.
8/19/2010
Module 2 on Transition from the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion and CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
CONNECT Module 2 focuses on practices to help support children and families as they transition among programs in the early care and education system. Come explore and experience an evidence-based practice approach to professional development.
8/19/2010
StrengthofUs Online Transition Resource for Young Adults
An online social community for teens and young adults to learn about mental health conditions, services and supports and handling the unique challenges and opportunities in transition-age years. Begin your trek into adulthood by checking out information about employment, housing, college life, money matters and much more.
Resources
8/5/2010
Making the Move to Managing Your Own Personal Assistance Services (PAS): A Toolkit for Youth Transitioning to Adulthood
This new toolkit assists youth in strengthening some of the most fundamental skills essential for successfully managing their own PAS: effective communication, time-management, working with others, and establishing professional relationships. Such skills are key to not only enhancing independence, but also thriving in the workplace and growing professionally.
11/24/2009
Transition Services Lacking for Teens with Special Needs
Less than one-half of pediatricians routinely offer adolescent patients with special health care needs (SHCN) support services to transition to adult health care, according to an AAP Periodic Survey of Fellows.
AAPNews Transition Survey article.pdf
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7/22/2009
Rural Institute Articles and Products on Transition
This webpage features transition-related articles and other publications.
Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
The Need for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities:Youth with physical or mental disabilities represent special populations at risk for juvenile delinquency, victimization, educational failure, and poor employment outcomes and often have multiple, overlapping risk factors. Such youth can and do benefit from mentoring relationships.
The Need for Inclusive Mentoring Programs:Youth with disabilities typically to receive mentoring within disability-specific programs rather than in inclusive, community-based programs that have a diversity of resources that promote education, job readiness, development of employment skills, and/or training in and exposure to entrepreneurial activities.
The Benefits:
- Youth with disabilities can participate with their typically developing peers in mentoring programs,
- The community capacity to serve people with disabilities would be enhanced with training, technical assistance, and programmatic supports,
- There is a social value to providing inclusive supports and services, and
- Through building the capacity of community-based mentoring programs to serve all youth well-including those with special physical or mental challenges-is more cost-effective than supporting multiple specialty services.
Factsheet:
AUCD has developed a factsheet that provides an overview of mentoring youth with disabilities, and gives examples of promising practices from the AUCD network. Click here: factsheet in PDF 
