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Welcome to MyTransitionIowa.org!

What's transition? It's finishing high school and starting your adult life. Transition is inevitable and in Iowa transition planning should start by age 14. This website can help! Learn about and prepare for transition by exploring:

  • Transition tools for planning your future
  • Peer groups for youth and peer groups for family members
  • Success stories and radio spots from youth and parents

Getting Started...
Say good-bye to childhood! Get ready for adulthood!

What will you do after high school?


Youthhood can help you plan for transition!

A guide to help you start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life.

Youthhood

(Teachers; Youthhood provides classroom modules!)
How have others prepared for transition?


Disability Solutions

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The Sept/Oct 2004 newsletter "Thinking About Tomorrow: The Transition to Adult Life" is especially helpful:
http://www.disabilitysolutions.org/newsletters/files/six/6-1.pdf

Center for Excellence in Disabilities

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The Fall 2004 Inclusion Notebook is especially helpful: http://www.uconnucedd.org/Publications/files/TIN_Fall04.pdf
Do you need transition planning tools?


A guide to transition planning and information on preparing for IEP meetings.
Where Am I Going? How Will I Get There?

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Identifying the challenges of adulthood and preparing to successfully meet those demands requires careful transition planning and should begin at the earliest possible age.
Adult Life Prep

Next steps...

Do you want to go to school?

College planning assistance specific to Iowa.
College Planning

Learn how youth across the country have been able to have a postsecondary experience.
Think College

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Do you want to go to work?
Information on accessing high demand jobs with apprenticeship experience, vocational training, 2- and 4-year college degrees. Information to help you decide what job or career path is right for you.

Don't plan to go to school or work?


If continuing your education or working isn't an option, a good place to start
your transition planning is with your local CPC.

Youth who won’t pursue additional education or enter employment, should connect with the local Central Point of Coordination to access mental health and developmental disabilities services.

Central Point of Coordination

In Iowa each county has a CPC (Central Point of Coordination) who manages county mental health and developmental disability funds. If you don’t plan to work or go to school, a good place to start transition planning is with your local CPC. Iowa COMPASS can help you connect with your local CPC (Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm,
1-800-779-2001 or 1-877-686-0032 TTY).

Continue your transition planning with...

How much do you want to tell others about your disability?


Workbook for youth specific to disclosing disability and understanding the impact of that decision.
411 on Disability Disclosure

 
Are you ready for adulthood?


These online tests for teens and families can help you answer
this important question!

Free, easy to use tools for youth and those helping them prepare for transition.
Casey Life Skills

 
Do you need health information?

Want to know more about special education?


ASL Resource Center provides a broad range of information, advocacy, support, training, and direct services for children and adults with disabilities and their families.
ASK Resource Center

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Iowa Department of Education, Special Education

Not finding what you're looking for?

Try Iowa COMPASS!


Iowa COMPASS has information on over 5,500 local, state,
and national agencies and programs.

Iowa COMPASS is Iowa's free, statewide information and referral service for people with disabilities, their families, service providers, and community members.

 

 

Learn how other youth and families prepared for the transition
from high school to adult life.

Click here for hard copy and MP3 files of their Success Stories.

Please download and share the MP3 files with your friends,
family, and local radio station.

Click here for a PDF file of the My Transition Iowa brochure

For more information please contact:
Connie Ehlers,
IVRS 510 E 12th St.,
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone 515-281-0275 or 1-800-532-1486
515-281-4211 V/TTY
Email connie.ehlers@iowa.gov

 

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This document was developed by Improving Transition Outcomes with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services,
funded by a grant/contract/cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of
Disability Employment Policy #E-9-4-3-0093. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the
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