Life is full of transitions. One of the most important transitions occurs when students get ready to head out into the world as young adults (between the ages of 18 and 21). This page provides resources for young adults, families, and professionals to guide a smooth transition towards post-secondary goals related to education, employment, and community living.
Pennsylvania Secondary Transition Guide
This website, which is continually updated, provides youth, young adults, families, and professionals with secondary transition resources to facilitate a young person’s progress towards post-secondary goals related to education, employment, and community living.
PA Secondary Transition Guide, PaTTAN
Secondary Transition Guides, from PaTTAN
The following series of family-friendly one-page documents are designed to provide brief, concise overviews of prioritized topics that address what parents and family members should consider when supporting their youth in preparing for post-secondary education, employment, and independent living.
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LifeCourse
The Charting the LifeCourse Framework was created by families to help individuals and families of all abilities and all ages to develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want.
Middle School Success: The Path to Graduation (P2G)
The Path to Graduation (P2G) will provide intensive, ongoing professional development and coaching using evidence-based instructional and adult learning practices that will build the capacity of schools to address the academic and behavioral needs to middle school students with disabilities, in particular, students identified with emotional disturbance.
P2G | Middle School Success: The Path to Graduation
Graduation ABCs
Check off ways that lead to success and graduation! For additional information to increase graduation rates, including Early Warning Systems Data Analysis Protocol for Individual Students: www.pattan.net.
How to Increase Graduation Rates for Students with Disabilities
This publication is about increasing graduation rates for students with disabilities.
Completion for All Pennsylvania Students (CAPS) School Attendance: Strategies for Schools, Families and Youth
This document focuses on attendance strategies for students in regard to increasing graduation rates and decreasing dropout rates.
