Transition - School to Work/Adult Life

Links

• Age of Majority
  A West Virginia Department of Education Office of Extended and Early Learning brochure about the transfer of rights of exceptional students.
• American Education Services Deferment and Forbearance
  If you can't make any payments at all, then a deferment or forbearance might be the right choice to keep your loan from entering default.
• Auxiliary Aids and Services for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Higher Education's Obligations Under Section 504 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights guide.
• College Foundation of West Virginia
  “Your free source for college and career planning”
• Disability.gov Grant Page
  Check this link to find grant funds for students with disabilities for post secondary settings.
• Employability Check Up
  This tool from the U.S. Department of Labor provides a snapshot of your chances of finding a job in a particular field based on your education and experience, desired income level and preferred employment location. Use this tool to select an occupation and industry, a state and locality, an education level and a wage level. This information will be used to create your "employability profile" to help you make good career choices. After completing your profile you will be led to a list of job banks and job training resources in your state.
• Fosterclub Transition Toolkit
  The toolkit is designed to help youth assess their assets and identify resources with the help of supportive adults involved in their lives. The toolkit includes "Readiness Scale" for youth to track their progress in 10 areas: finances and money management, jobs and careers, life skills, identity, performance, education, self-care and health, housing, transportation, and community, culture, and social life. The information and planning and assessment forms in this toolkit can be used to develop an individual transition plan for all youth.
• Going to College
  A resource for teens with disabilities.
• Going to College with Diabetes: A Self Advocacy Guide for Students
  This authoritative, comprehensive guide empowers students to understand their rights and learn how to advocate for them, and to create positive working relationships with their schools, testing agencies, internship sites, and employers.
• Going To Work: A Guide to Social Security Benefits and Employment for Young People with Disabilities
  A resource guide from the Institute for Community Integration: promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities.
• Health Resource Center
  Online clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities.
• Higher Education Access: A Universal Design Demonstration
  A federally funded project located at the Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED) as West Virginia University (WVU). The project’s goal is to ensure that students with disabilities receive an equal opportunity for a quality education at WVU.
• Human Resource Development Foundation Youth Programs
  Assists West Virginia's youth through advocacy, empowerment, and the successful administration of a wide variety of employment, occupational skill training, and educational programs.
• Job Accommodation Network Disclosure Resources
  JAN provides free, confidential technical assistance about job accommodations and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
• Making the move to managing your own personal assistance services (PAS)
  A Toolkit for Youth with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood.
• Money Smart Financial Literacy Curriculum
  Money Smart represents one strategy to promote and facilitate asset development. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created the Money Smart Curriculum to help youth and adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures.
• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
  Navigating the road to work; making the connection between youth with disabilities and employment.
• PACER Center's ADA Q&A: Section 504 and Post Secondary Education
  Questions reflect those most commonly asked of PACER staff regarding the ADA and postsecondary institutions.
• School Days to Pay Days
  An Employment Planning Guide for Families of Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Collaboratively designed by ICI and the Department of Developmental Services through the Work Without Limits employment initiative, this booklet will help families get started with the school-to-work transition process. Readers will learn about resources, services, and programs available for young adults with intellectual disabilities in Massachusetts; and find inspiration in the many success stories of young adults who have secured fulfilling employment with appropriate supports.
• Soft Skills to Pay the Bills - Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success
  A curriculum developed by Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) focused on teaching "soft" or workforce readiness skills to youth, including youth with disabilities.
• State toolkit re: New health care law provisions for young adults
  The Getting Covered campaign is the product of over twenty national
  organizations and dozens of state and local groups, all dedicated to
  making health care reform work for young adults. The campaign is
  coordinated by Young Invincibles -- a national organization representing
  the interests of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 34.
• Strengthening Transition Partnerships: Building Federal Technical Assistance Center Capacity
  Descriptions of Federally funded - supported projects and centers that focus on youth transition.
• Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
  U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.
• The 411 on Your Job Rights: Real World... Real Rights... Real Responsibilities
  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Ensuring the Freedom to Compete in America's Workplaces.
• The 411 on Youth Disability Disclosure
  A workbook for youth with disabilities.
• The Why, When, What, and How of Disclosure in an Academic Setting, After High School
  A document of the United States Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy discussing why, when, what and how to disclose a disability in an after high school academic setting.
• Think College
  College Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities from the Institute for Community Integration.
• Through the Looking Glass Scholarship
  Through the Looking Glass and its National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families are pleased to announce new scholarships specifically for high school seniors and college students who have parents with disabilities.
• Transition Parent Briefs - PACER Center
  Contains numerous transition related publications from the PACER Center.
• Transition, Transition Services, Transition Planning
  Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.
• USA Funds - Deferment and Forbearance forms
  Deferment and Forbearance Forms.
• Youth, Disclosure, and the Workplace Why, When, What, and How
  A document of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment addressing disability disclosure issues and employment geared towards youth.