RESOURCES

Help with Starting and Developing ITC’s

Barrow County – Interagency Transition Councils: How to Get Started (Power Point)
Fayette County – Bridging the Gap to Success: School Transition Action Resource Teams (Power Point)
National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center: www.nsttac.org  – to support and improve transition planning, services, and outcomes for youth with disabilities
NCSET: Interagency Transition Team Development Manual (PDF)

Community Transition Teams Training: Developing Comprehensive Community-wide Transition Systems to Improve Results (December, 2008)
Prepared by:
Mary E. Morningstar, Ph.D.
Patricia Noonan, Ph.D.
Georgia's State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG): Update on Interagency Advisory [Transition] Councils (PowerPoint)
Prepared by:
Tom Erdmanczyk, Ed.S., Consultant
Karla Mantooth, Ph.D., Transition Specialist

Sample Transition Referral Form (Cobb/Marietta/Douglas ITC) PDF

Sample Agenda for a Transition Planning Day (Cobb/Marietta/Douglas ITC - Looking Toward the Future 2008 PDF

Agency Resources
Department of Education – www.doe.k12.ga.us
Georgia Department of Labor – www.dol.state.ga.us
Tools for Life – www.gatfl.org
Vocational Rehabilitation Program – www.vocrehabga.org 

• Eligible VR Client – Process to Achieve Employment (PDF)

VR Fact Sheets

• Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation Program The Basics  (PDF)
• Assistant Commissioner's Office Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation Program Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Rehabilitation Services Top Ten Things for a School to Know (PDF)
• Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation Program Work Adjustment Training (PDF)
• Rehabilitation Services Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Rehabilitation Services Vocational Rehabilitation Program Services to Businesses (PDF)
• Georgia Industries for the Blind Fact Sheet (PDF)

• Rehabilitation Services Disability Adjudication Services Fact Sheet (PDF)

   

COMMUNITY MAPPING is an idea and activity with the potential to enhance the ease and success of students in transition. It allows a community to identify its resources, their proximity to one another and the students, and maximize their effectiveness. To learn more about community mapping, you may want to browse the following web sites.

• www.ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp?id=2128 

• www.centerforcommunitymapping.org 

• www.actionforchange.org/mapping

• www.policylink.org/EDTK/Mapping

• www.vinsweb.org/education/community_map.html 

• http://transitioncoalition.org/transition/file/php?path=files/docs/community_mapping1213220275.pdf

• http://ncset.hawaii.edu/institutes/dec2002/papers/pdf/Crane.pdf