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are FREE to Minnesota parents of children and young adults with disabilities.
items are free to young adults, high school or older, with disabilities and their families.
Please limit requests for free items to 10 or less per order.
Transition
PACER provides information, resources, and technical assistance to parents of young adults, 14 through 21, with disabilities and the professionals who work with them on transition related topics, such as; post secondary options, housing, employment, and recreation. Also see Transition Parent Briefs developed by PACER in collaboration with other national technical assistance centers.
Interactive CD
Top Secret Job Skills: Declassified
Top Secret Job Skills: Declassified is an animated, interactive CD for transition age teens, with and without disabilities, to learn the interpersonal skills that are needed to be successful in the interview and on the job. The CD features optional audio, with the main characters providing voice over of all the text. This is a great resource for teens and parents, as well as a teaching tool for educational settings. Watch a clip from the CD
$35 |
Price per CD
| ST-38
Workshop/Training Curricula
Building Program Capacity to Serve Youth with Disabilities
This curriculum is designed to train youth employment program staff with little or no experience working with youth with disabilities. This seven-module curriculum explores disability awareness within a civil rights framework, reviews laws that relate to employment for people with disabilities, helps individuals understand the needs of youth with disabilities and their families, introduces participants to examples of reasonable accommodations and assistive technology, promotes interagency collaboration, and examines the overrepresentation of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system. 2004. More detailed information is available online.
$15 |
CD-Rom
| ST-1
Solving the Employment Puzzle for Youth with Disabilities
This curriculum can be used by Parent Centers and other organizations to introduce parents and youth to practical career development strategies and to promote awareness of a wide range of community and government resources that can help youth with disabilities prepare for work, find a job, and stay employed. 69 slides. 2003. This curriculum is also available in PowerPoint and HTML format.
$15 |
CD-Rom
| ALL-24
Board Game
Transition Trek Game
An innovative and engaging board game that helps youth and young adults plan for life after high school. Players draw cards with questions related to careers, independent living, and self determination. Six game pieces included. 1996.
$35 |
ST-23
Brochures
Mapping Your Dreams: Making the Transition Team Work
This series of transition handouts address five issues challenging young adults with disabilities; employment, education, home living, community involvement, and recreation and leisure. Designed for easy reading, each touches on the subject matter in ways that can lead youth and their parents to examine and discuss the future together. 2005.
$2.50 | 10+ of same topic, $1.50 each
One set of all 5 topics, $10; 10+ sets of all topics, $7.50 each set; 100+ sets of all topics, $5 each set
Click topic below for online versions.
Recreation | ST-30
Education | ST-31
Home Living | ST-32
Community | ST-33
Employment | ST-34
Natural Supports: The Emerging Role of Business in Employment of People with Moderate and Severe Disabilities
Answers "Yes!" to the question: Are businesses willing to directly hire people with moderate and severe disabilities and be actively involved from the beginning in providing support? 1997. An online version is also available.
$2 |
10+ copies, $1.50 each
| PHP-c24
What Is a WorkForce Center?
Do you or does someone you know have a disability and want to work? If so, you can learn how WorkForce Centers can help people develop skills, look for work, keep jobs, or build a career. 2001. An online version is also available.
$3 |
10+ copies, $2 each
| VO-2
Videos
Go For Your Dream
Features Hmong students and adults with disabilities and their parents, speaking about their transition experiences and their hopes for the future. Rental fee can be applied toward purchase. In Hmong with English subtitles.
$35 |
Rental, $10
| VID-26
Information is POWER
This 10-minute video, is a creative youth-friendly presentation featuring five high school students and one young adult who discuss the importance of being knowledgeable about their disability or chronic illness. 1998. Closed-captioned.
$35 |
Rental, $10
| VID-25
Sexuality and Me: I Am a Beautiful Person
Teens and young adults with disabilities discuss sexuality. 13 minutes. 1996. Closed-captioned.
$35 |
Rental, $10
| VID-20
Speak Up for Health
Discusses health care for transition youth. 1992.
$35 |
Rental, $10
| VID-12
Books
Housing: Where Will Our Children Live When They Grow Up?
Parents of youth with disabilities will find that this attractive, easy-to-use book answers many questions about future housing choices to make with their child. From housing options to a resource directory, there is a wealth of information. 2007.
$8 |
10+ copies, $6 each
| PHP-a26
Speak Up For Health Parent Handbook
Helps parents prepare adolescents with chronic illness and disabilities for independence in health care. Includes information and stories from parents and teens on "letting go," self-advocacy, sexuality, and reproductive health. Includes health care skills and residential health checklist/worksheets. 1998.
$10 |
10+ copies, $8 each
| ST-11
Teens Speak Out
Survey in 1996 of Minnesota teens with disabilities about their needs and experiences during transition. 1997.
$3 |
10+ copies, $2 each
| ST-26
The Road to Work: An Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation
Discusses the issues related to the Rehabilitation Act, including elibigility criteria for vocational rehabilitation services, transition planning for high school students, the Individual Written Rehabilitation Program, appeals procedures, legislation and self-advocacy skills. Fourth Edition. 2009.
$8 |
10+ copies, $6.50 each
| VO-1
Transition and Beyond...Now What?
Helps families of young adults move ahead on transition when they don’t know how to begin. It offers many practical ideas for transition to life after high school, including college, work, and independent living. 2002.
$10 |
10+ copies, $8 each
| ST-29
When I Grow Up...I Am Going to Work
Discusses the range of work possibilities for young peopel with disabilities. 2002.
$8 |
10+ copies, $6 each
| ST-22
ADA Related Articles | Free to Download
ADA Related Articles
Articles show how the Americans with Disabilities Act affects child care centers, recreation programs, schools, filing complaints, health care providers, post-secondary education and the Rehabilitation Act, employment discrimination, and transition. 1993-1997.
$5 for set |
PHP-c51
Handouts Free to Download
| $1.50 per request | 10+ copies, $.50 each
Transition Parent Briefs developed by PACER in collaboration with other national technical assistance centers.
PACER's site offers many PDF files for download, which require 
