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DB101
Disability Benefits 101 gives you tools and information on health coverage, benefits, and employment. You can plan ahead and learn how work and benefits go together.
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Housing Benefits 101: Explore your housing options. Discover what works for you. Make a plan to get there.

Youth in Transition Toolkit:

Youth in Transition Toolkit

Professional resources

Explore guides, trainings and other resources to support youth in transition.

NEW: The E1MN Youth Outcomes Dashboard
The E1MN Youth Outcomes Dashboard presents employment outcome information for transition age students and recent graduates with disabilities.

Autism Certification Center

Free online training options to build your capacity to serve youth with autism
10.5-hour course on the use of evidence-based strategies to support people with autism (PDF)

Transition Coalition

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

Transition Tennessee

Strategies for effective instruction training module for Pre-ETS providers (including how to choose the best content to deliver during Pre-ETS instruction, and how to collaborate with teachers on lesson planning)

Autism Speaks

Transition toolkit: Guidance on self-advocacy skills, legal issues, housing and employment options

Federal Partners in Transition workgroup

What to know about youth transition services for students and youth with disabilities (PDF)
2020 Federal Youth Transition Plan: A federal interagency strategy (PDF)

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability

Guideposts for success 2.0: Ensuring that all youth, including those with disabilities, have full access to high-quality services in integrated settings

PACER Center

U.S. Department of Education

A transition guide to postsecondary education and employment for students and youth with disabilities (PDF)

University of Minnesota

Minnesota transition guide for teachers of deaf/hard of hearing

Career and Technical Education Consortium of States

Workplace readiness skills curriculum, including quizzes

GCF Global

Content on essential skills needed to live and work in the 21st century, including more than 7,000 lessons, 1,000 videos, and 50 interactive links and games

National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: Collaborative (NTACT:C)

Job exploration counseling curricula: Activities to help youth with disabilities explore careers
Postsecondary education counseling curricula: Activities to help youth with disabilities prepare for postsecondary opportunities
Workplace readiness training curricula: Activities to help youth with disabilities practice essential work skills
Instruction in self-advocacy: Resources to help youth with disabilities learn self-advocacy skills

Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development

Creative job search guide: How-to manual for youth to learn about and launch a successful job search

ReadyJOB

Job readiness curriculum for teens

The Ohio State University

EnvisionIT: Evidence-based, standards-aligned, college and career readiness curriculum

Transition Tennessee

Online training and resources to prepare students with disabilities for life after high school, including video-based lessons, ideas, resources and more

U.S. Department of Labor

Soft skills to pay the bills: Work skills curriculum

Virtual Virginia

Career readiness lesson plans

Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center (WINTAC)

Explore work: Online training for students with disabilities within the five Pre-ETS activities

The National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative (NTACT:C) is a technical assistance center co-funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA). The collaborative provides information, tools and supports to assist multiple stakeholders in delivering effective services and instruction for secondary youth and out-of-school youth with disabilities.

Check out NTACT's information about data collection and use and effective practices.

In the professional resources section of the Disability Hub's work toolkit, explore guides, trainings and other resources to help people engage, plan, find and keep employment.

To access state and regional employment outcome data for transition age students and recent graduates with disabilities, check out the E1MN Youth Outcomes Dashboard.
Individual school district/charter school data can be accessed through the Minnesota Statewide Longitudinal Education Data System (SLEDS).
The 2021 youth transition report: Outcomes for youth and young adults with disabilities (PDF) from the Institute for Educational Leadership underscores the gap between youth and young adults with disabilities and those without disabilities on measures of success in education, employment, opportunity and poverty.

Vocational Rehabilitation Services field staff directory (PDF)
Contacts for county and tribal offices and contracted agencies
Licensing information lookup tool for local waiver employment service providers
Interactive map to find local schools and public libraries

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Technical assistance centers and data-driven practices

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