Introduction and Guide to Supported Decision Making featuring Jonathan Martinis [link]
Video series about making your own choices and becoming more independent.
Author: trex
I’m Determined
I’m Determined [link]
Website with resources for parents and youth with disabilities about making their own choices. They offer resources and videos about making choices, sticking up for yourself, and understanding your disability.
Speak Up: Using What You’ve Got to Get What You Want
Speak Up: Using What You’ve Got to Get What You Want [link]
Video about how to speak up to get what you want.
Phone: 301-608-8098
Email: ncfy@acf.hhs.gov
Kids as Self-Advocates (KASA)
Kids as Self-Advocates (KASA) [link]
Teaches kids how to be leaders and talk to others about their rights.:
Phone: (207) 458-1009
Email: bbaker@familyvoices.org
Youth in Action: Becoming a Stronger Self-Advocate
Youth in Action: Becoming a Stronger Self-Advocate [link]
Offers a step-by-step guide for telling people about your rights.
Phone: 877-871-0744
Learn About Self-Advocacy: Speaking Up
Learn About Self-Advocacy: Speaking Up [link]
Shares a video about how to stick up for your rights.
Email: rtcweb@umn.edu
Employer Toolkit
Author(s): Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University
This guide helps employers incorporate people with disabilities into the workplace.
Kentucky Post School Outcome Study (KyPSO)
Kentucky Post School Outcome Study (KyPSO) [link]
Gives a survey at the end of high school for youth with IEP plans.
Email: Tony Lobianco at tony.lobianco@uky.edu
Charting the Life Course: Daily Life and Employment booklet
Charting the Life Course: Daily Life and Employment booklet [link]
Booklet by the UMKC Institute for Human Development about planning to become an adult in your daily life and and at work.
This guide is one in a series of LifeCourse domain guides focused on Daily Life and Employment. It is intended to help you, your family, or the people who support you think about what you like and want to do as you grow from childhood into young adulthood and beyond. This guide will help you think about questions to ask, things to do, and resources to access that lead to a job, career, volunteer position, or continuing education of your choice.
Charting the Life Course: Transition to Adulthood booklet
Charting the Life Course: Transition to Adulthood booklet [link]
Booklet about how to become an adult in many different areas of life.