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This site provides Pre-Employment Transition Services guidance questions, activities, and resources by grade level (middle school, grades 9-10, grades 11-12, and grades 12+)
Information and Resources are organized by the following Pre-ETS categories
Counseling for Transition and Post Secondary Programs
Job Exploration
Self-Determination Training
The Ticket to Work program can help individuals with disabilities receiving disability benefits opportunities to return to work, stay employed and increase earnings.
Transition Unlimited is an Alabama pre‐employment transition services (Pre‐ETS) initiative designed to build capacity and connect services to appropriately implement pre‐employment transition services throughout the state. This site provides access to LEA Pre-ETS plans and provides links to related resources.
The I’m Determined project, a state-directed project funded by the Virginia Department of Education, focuses on providing direct instruction, models, and opportunities to practice skills associated with self-determined behavior.
To identify common elements of effective partnerships, we conducted a series of site visits to institutions of higher education (IHE) programs that had long established collaborations with VR and conducted interviews with VR and IHE staff. It was clear that targeted and intentional communication was essential to establishing the goals of the partnership.
Is your agency positioned to provide career counseling and rehabilitation services within a Career Pathways structure? Use this checklist to find out.This checklist, developed by the WINTAC, includes a broad-range perspective that supports agencies in providing services for the people (and industries) they serve.
The Institute for Community Inclusion conducted a study on state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies and institutions of higher education (IHEs) that enroll students with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A) to identify characteristics of effective partnerships.
This brief provides an overview of the key provisions of WIOA and offers suggested strategies for the establishment or enhancement of partnerships between state VR agencies and IHEs. For this purpose, we have grouped the key provisions into five overarching goals: preparing workers for the 21st century labor market, pre-employment transition
Higher education programs currently play a small role in providing Pre-ETS, but have the potential for a larger role in partnership with state VR agencies. To facilitate such partnerships, this brief provides an overview of Pre-ETS and the potential role of inclusive higher education could play in the provision of Pre-ETS.
The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) conducted four case studies of partnerships between VR agencies and higher education entities across the country to identify effective VR partnership strategies. Each of the four programs was identified as having an exemplary VR partnership supporting students with ID/A.