Transition 101CA Transition Alliance

Transition Planning: The Basics guide for 2023
Help students prepare for life after high cchool, write IEPs that meet the legal mandate, implement IEPs using best practices.

Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Transition Innovations
CTI is a leader in providing resources and innovative models to support students with disabilities in their transition to adulthood.

IDEA and Secondary Transition Regulations
Federal special education law that ensures all children with disabilities have access to a free, appropriate public education.

Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA)
Requires vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to set aside at least 15% of their federal funds to provide “pre-employment transition services” to “Students with Disabilities who are eligible or potentially eligible for VR services.”

Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
Provides leadership and resources to assist state and other agencies in providing vocational rehabilitation and other services to individuals with disabilities.

National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT): The Collaborative
Supporting you to improve opportunities and outcomes for students and youth with disabilities.

Department of Labor – Office of Disability Employment Policy
Developing and influencing disability employment-related policies and practices,

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation
Providing a wide array of supports to parents and individuals, school districts and states in two main areas—special education and vocational rehabilitation.

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Welcoming community for all youth and a place where all youth belong. This site was built to help you plan for the future.

Disabled Youth Today
Youth Today covers issues of particular interest to youth with disabilities and those who care for and work with them.

Career Interest Inventory – Multiple Intelligence
This activity will help you find out what your strengths are. Knowing this, you can work to strengthen the other intelligences that you do not use as often.

Career Interest Inventory 2
A Career Interest Inventory helps you relate your interests and abilities to career choices. The following survey will link your career

Mobility Paths
View the most common job paths for you, into and out of a field.

Music Circle
Learning about yourself is the most important step in your search for a job or career. Connect what you like about music, to a career you would like to work in.

Photography Circle
Learning about yourself is the most important step in your search for a job or career. Connect the multi media you like, to a career you would like to work in.

I’m Determined
Get your hands on tools or resources to help build self-determination

O’Net Resource Center
A workforce professional, developer, and research portal with data, tools, websites, technical documentation, and customer support information.

Transition Portfolio Guide – Indiana Dept. of Education
This document provides guidance for the development of transition portfolios* for Indiana students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Picture Career Interest Inventory
Learning about yourself is the most important step in your search for a job or career. A Career Interest Inventory helps you relate your interests and abilities to career choices.

Sports Individual Circle
Learning about yourself is the most important step in your search for a job or career. Connect the sports you like, to a career you would like to work in.

Tips2
Direct your own life. Know yourself, your goals, and your plans for your life.

Live Career Assessments
Learn how to navigate potentially tricky pain points like office politics, asking for a raise, and handling performance reviews (to name a few).

Video Game Circle
Learning about yourself is the most important step in your search for a job or career. Connect the video games you like, to a career you would like to work in.

My Next Move
What do you want to do for a living? Search careers with key words, browse careers by industry, or discover your interests.

CA Career Center
Your virtual counselor! Dream big, set goals, take action!

National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
Supporting you to improve opportunities and outcomes for students and youth with disabilities.

Minnesota State Careerwise Assessments
Designed to assist individuals in understanding and determining their passions, preferences and inclinations towards different types of activities and occupations.

Indiana University Transition Assessment Matrix
Developed for secondary education transition teachers by the Indiana Northeast Cadre of Transition Leaders and the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center (INSTRC).

Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Transition Innovations
CTI is a leader in providing resources and innovative models to support students with disabilities in their transition to adulthood.

CA Mental Health – Child Health and Disability Prevention
Preventive program that delivers periodic health assessments and services to low income children and youth in California.

Career Builder
CareerBuilder is the most trusted source for job opportunities & advice. Access career resources, personalized salary tools & insights. Find your dream job now!

California Career Resource Network (CalCRN) – Department of Education
(CalCRN) program provides career development information and resources to support the development of critical career self-management skills necessary for success in today’s world of work.

America’s Job Center of California SM (AJCC)
Nearly 2,300 AJCs nationwide help people search for jobs, find training, and answer other employment-related questions.

Transition Coalition
Specialized professional development, technical assistance and resources for educators, professionals, and family members who support students and youth with disabilities.

Think College – Institute for Community Inclusion
Dedicated to developing, expanding, and improving research and practice in inclusive higher education for students with intellectual disability.

California Career Center – Virtual Counselor
Your virtual counselor! Dream big, set goals, take action!

California State University (CSU)
Find your future at the California State University.

CA EDD / LMI Division
The LMID promotes California’s economic health by providing information to help people understand California’s economy and make informed labor market choices.

National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
Supporting you to improve opportunities and outcomes for students and youth with disabilities.

Tfolio
T-Folio is a free transition portfolio tool for high school age youth with disabilities.

CDE CA Common Core Academic Standards
Educational standards describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject in each grade.

Web Accessibility in Mind
Expanding the potential of the web for people with disabilities by empowering individuals and organizations to create accessible content.

CDE CA Career Technical Education Standards
Integrating California’s rigorous academic content standards with industry-specific knowledge and skills to prepare students both for direct entry into California’s vibrant industry sectors and for postsecondary education.

Special Education Services and Supports – Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology is to improve student achievement, productivity, independence, and inclusion by increasing student access to assistive technology devices and services.

WorkAbility I – CA Dept. of Education
The WAI program provides comprehensive pre-employment skills training, employment placement and follow-up for high school students in special education.

Skills to Pay the Bills Curriculum – Department of Labor
Curriculum developed by ODEP focused on teaching “soft” or workforce readiness skills to youth, including youth with disabilities.

Transition Portfolio Guide – Indiana Dept. of Education
This document provides guidance for the development of transition portfolios* for Indiana students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Social Security Administration
We administer retirement, disability, survivor, and family benefits, and enroll individuals in Medicare.

Explore VR
ExploreVR offers vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies easy and convenient access to a range of VR research, related data, and tools for planning, evaluation, and decision-making.

WorkAbility I – CA Dept. of Education
The WAI program provides comprehensive pre-employment skills training, employment placement and follow-up for high school students in special education.

CA Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DOR)
Employment and independent living for Californians with disabilities since 1963.

Employment Services for People with Disabilities – CA Employment Development Dept.
We advance employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

CA Youth Leadership Forum (YLF)
Providing services and advocacy resulting in employment, independent living, and equality for individuals with disabilities.

National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
Supporting you to improve opportunities and outcomes for students and youth with disabilities.

CA Developmental Disabilities Services (DDS)
Working so people with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience respect for their culture and language preferences, their choices, beliefs, values, needs, and goals.

CA Chancellor’s Office for Community Colleges
Providing students with the knowledge and background necessary to compete in today’s economy.

National Center on Deaf-Blindness
Improving services, results, and quality of life for children and youth who are deaf-blind.

National Association of the Deaf NOD
The nation’s premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America.

National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people.

American Foundation for the Blind
A leader in addressing the most pressing needs of people with visual impairments and their families, breaking down societal barriers, and promoting broad systemic change.

APH Career Connect — for Job Seekers who are visually impaired
Attention, students and job seekers who are blind or low vision! Are you ready to hone your career exploration and job-seeking skills?

Preparing Youth with Disabilities for the Workforce
ODEP works to influence national policy and promote effective workplace practices to ensure that today’s — and tomorrow’s — workforce engages all people, including people with disabilities.

Transition Resources
Promoting and supporting successful transition to employment, independent living and quality life for individuals with disabilities, including those with significant disabilities.

Preparing Youth with Disabilities for the Workforce
ODEP works to influence national policy and promote effective workplace practices to ensure that today’s — and tomorrow’s — workforce engages all people, including people with disabilities.