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Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options for Students with Disabilities: What Families and Advocates Need to Know (May 2009 - Issue 22)

Prepared by PACER Center in collaboration with the National Collaboration on Workforce Development for Youth, this brief explores the importance of making informed decisions about diploma options, understanding the consequences of graduating with different types of diplomas as well as the need for youth, families, and Individual Education Program (IEP) teams to consider these issues early.

Successful Transition Models for Youth with Mental Health Needs: A Guide for Workforce Professionals (Issue 23, May 2009)

Prepared by PACER Center in collaboration with the National Collaboration on Workforce Development for Youth, this brief describes the systems’ service barriers faced by youth with mental health needs as they reach adulthood, while highlighting new models and strategies designed to break down those barriers and help them to transition successfully into the workplace.

PACER Transition Resources

Social Networking Sites: Consider the benefits, concerns for your teenager.(2009)
Excerpt from the PACER Fall 2009 Pacesetter

Age of Majority: Preparing Your Child for Making Good Choices (2002)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (articles) (1993-1997)

Awareness of Cultural Values Can Improve VR Services for Minorities (1997)

Building Program Capacity to Serve Youth with Disabilities (2005)

Career search: start charting a path for youth now

Client Assistance Programs (1995)

Disclosing a Disability in a Job Interview (1996)

Families and Natural Supports: The Engine for change, a newsletter article from Point of Departure, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1997)

The Family as a Critical Partner in the Achievement of a Successful Employment Outcome (2000)

Family Network is Important in Job Success of People with Disabilities (1996)

Family Roles in the Transition from School to Work (1999)

Friendship and Inclusion (1996)

Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options for Students with Disabilities: What Families and Advocates Need to Know (May 2009 - Issue 22)

Helping Families Transition to the Future: Rehabilitation Service Administration Parent Information and Training Projects Outcome Data 2005-2006 (2007)

Investigating postsecondary options leads to later satisfaction (2006)

IDEA 1997 Transition Issues: The IEP for Transition Aged Students (2002)

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Interagency Collaboration and Transition (1997)

Mapping your Dreams Series (2005):

Measuring Transition Success: Focus on Youth & Family Participation (2006)

Mentoring Encourages Young Adults (2003)

Natural Supports: Expanding the capacities of businesses, consultants and employees

Negotiating with your Vocational Rehabilitation counselor (1999)

Off to College: Tips for Parents of Students with Visual Impairments

Off to College: Tips for Students with Visual Impairments

The Olmstead Decision

Parent Centers and Centers for Independent Living (1998)

Parenting Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Becoming the Mentor, Advocate, and Guide Your Young Adult Needs (2002)

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Parents as job developers (1999)

Person Centered Planning (1999)

Person-Centered Planning: A Tool for Transition (2004)

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Personal assistance services (1999)

Planning for transition: It's never too soon (2003)

Planning for postsecondary education (2005)

Post-School Outcomes Surveys: Coming Soon to a Student Near You! (2007)

Postsecondary Education (1999)

Postsecondary Education: Preparation is a Necessary Ingredient for Success 2004

Preparing for Employment: On the Home Front (2006)

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as Amended

The Role of Parents in Dropout Prevention: Strategies that Promote Graduation and School Achievement (2006)

Self Determination (1999)

Solving the Employment Puzzle (2004)

Student Directed IEPs (2003)

Student-directed IEPs (1999)

Study Explores Parent, Professional Collaboration (1997)

Successful Transition Models for Youth with Mental Health Needs: A Guide for Workforce Professionals (Issue 23, May 2009)

Summer Employment and the Value of Work-Based Learning (2003)

Supplementary Security Income (Part 1 of 3): A Bridge to Work (2003)

Supplementary Security Income (Part 2 of 3): So you Have Decided to Apply (2003)

Supplementary Security Income (Part 3 of 3): Your Right to Appeal (2003)

TATRA Survey of Federally Funded Parent Centers (2001)

Ten tips that may help ease your child's transition to adulthood

Transition Planning for Children with Disabilities

This 30 minute video produced by PACER Center is a brief overview of the secondary transition planning process. RealPlayer is required to view.

Transition to the Next Steps After High School (2002)

Transition to the Next Steps After High School Highlights (2002)

Understanding One's Disability Leads to Job Success (2003)

Universal Design for Learning and the Transition to a More Challenging Academic Curriculum: Making it in Middle School and Beyond (2005)

Using Resource Mapping as a Strategy to Improve Outcomes for Youth

What does Health Have to Do with Transition? Everything! (2006)

What is a Workforce Center? (2001)

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