--- Upcoming Event:
--- Transitioning to Adult Life
--- Conference for Youth with
--- Disabilities, Families and
--- Professionals and Assistive
--- Technology Fair
--- November 14 & 15 2008
---Click for more details!

TRANSITION

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
-------Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993

Remember graduation day from high school, and being ready to embark on the next journey? Remember having made plans for what was next? Remember the excitement, the wonderment of the unknown and being anxious?

Students with disabilities have the same right to be prepared for adulthood and to be filled with excitement of their future. In order for that to occur, there needs to be plans in place. Transition planning for youth with disabilities begins at 14 and is built upon each year until the student leaves school.

A students plan is geared exclusively to him or her and will involve a ‘team’ of qualified people who know the student, who has input into their future and who are in the position to make their dreams come true. A students plan is about his/her dreams, aspirations, and goals and will involve many areas of supports. Areas of planning include post-secondary education, vocational education, employment (including supported employment), income, social security and medical insurance, living arrangements, leisure time activities, assessments, independent living skills, and inclusion into his/her community. Different types of supports will be introduced in each stage of planning.

With the completion of high school, adult life begins and entitlement to public education ends. You will be faced with having to make major decisions about the future. Before you reach this point, serious effort needs to go into planning for this life change.

Navigating the path to adulthood can sometimes be long and tiring, and at times an adventure filled with hills and peaks which will lead you onto other paths through transition. This web-site is designed to be user friendly and to give you a place to start the transition process. We will attempt to keep clear paths for your journey. Begin your passage, follow our simplified step-by-step approach. We are here to help and want to make sure you are not overwhelmed by detours along the way.