Building Community Relationships
- Supporting Adults with IDD in their Communities
- Launching Inclusive Efforts through Community Conversations
- APSE Community Conversation Packet
Creating Inclusive Schools
Employment
- Employing People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2014)
- Real Work Stories
- Employment Support Professional (ESPro) Competencies Evaluation Tool
- Six Steps of Employment Supports
- A Better Bottom Line: Employment People with Disabilities A Blueprint for Governors (2013)
- Impact: Feature Issue on Supporting New Career Paths for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Transition to Employment: Evidence-based Policies and Practices (archived webinar)
- Supported Employment: A Customer-Driven Approach
- Self-Directed Employment, In Control Wisconsin
Planning for Employment
- What You Need to Know About Your SSI When You Turn 18
- Student Earned Income Exclusion Video (1:58)
- Ticket to Work
- Find a Benefits Specialists (WI)
- Social Security Disability Benefits Guide (The Simple Dollar)
- Understanding the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program (Virginia Commonwealth)
- Sample work training agreements: General agreement, Alaska, Michigan
- Work-Based Learning Programs (Wisconsin)
- Thought Sauce! Hot Ideas for Cool Employment – posted with permission from Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC and the Center for Social Capital, Inc.
- Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career-Focused Mentoring, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), US Dept of Labor
- Customized Employment – Solutions for Youth (video)
- Soft Skills to Pay the Bills — Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success, (curriculum), US Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
- Youth at Work (video and workbook), US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- NJ Master Resource Guide-Educating Parents
- Employer Expectations (APSE)
Finding Employment
- Applying for a Job: the Young Adult’s Guide
- Marketing and Job Development: The Business side of the Process (archived webinar)
Self-Employment
Employment Supports & Funding
Employment Supports
- Cost Effectiveness of Natural Supports (APSE)
- Employment Support Professionals (ESPro) Competencies Evaluation Tool
- Seamless Collaboration with and for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Employment and Adult Life (WI)
- Customized Employment Competency Model
Transition Action Guide
- Interagency Agreement (WI)
- Transition Action Guide for Post-School Planning, in Support of the Interagency Agreement (WI)
- Transition Action Guide Online Training Module
For Employers
- Supervising Employees with Intellectual Disabilities
- Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator
- A Toolkit for Employers: Connecting Youth and Business
- Think Beyond the Label
- Creating an Inclusive Workplace – posted with permission of ASSE, publisher of Professional Safety
- Partners With Business (PowerPoint)
Post-Secondary Education
- Making My Way Through College: A Guide for Students with Disabilities – NCWD
- Impact: Feature Issue on Postsecondary Education and Students with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities
- Think College: College Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- Think College Wisconsin
- Coordinators of Services for Students with Disabilities – University of Wisconsin system
- Key Contacts for Students with Disabilities – Wisconsin Technical College System
Research & Reports
- Issue Brief: Do Promising Vocational Interventions Benefit At-Risk Youth?
- Issue Brief: Does Service Collaboration Enhance Seamless Transition Outcomes?
- Issue Brief: Evaluating the Implementation and Outcomes of Secondary Supported Employment Programs for Students with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
- Issue Brief: The Impact of Personnel Factors on Employment Outcomes of Urban At-risk Youth
- Issue Brief: Post-School Outcomes for Transitioning Youth with Developmental Disabilities Can we Predict Integrated Employment?
- Issue Brief: Students at Greatest Risk for Poor Post-School Employment Outcomes: What Can Schools Do?
- Ready by 21, Credentialed by 26 Series, #4: When Working Works: Employment and Postsecondary Success. The Forum for Youth Investment (2011, November). Washington, D.C.: The Forum for Youth Investment.
Self-Determination/Self-Advocacy
- Speak Up! music video – created by youth with the Figureheads
- Pushing for Policy to Promote Self-Determination (APSE)
- Self-Advocacy Online – Audio and video lessons for students to learn about self-advocacy and futures planning.
- Center for Self-Determination
“Going to Work” Youth Video Series
- Video #1: Meet the Characters (5:34)
- Video #2: Understanding Your Disability and Self-Advocacy Skills (6:34)
- Video #3: Disclosing Your Disability(5:59)
- Video #4: Job Interview Skills (5:32)
- Video #5: Asking for Accommodations on the Job (5:54)
Workplace Accommodations
Other Resources
- Community Based Transition Options for 18 to 21 Year Old Students with Disabilities: A Framework for Discovery
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), US Dept. of Labor – Youth resources
- APSE – National and Wisconsin
- Disability.gov – Employment Resources
- Cents and Sensibility: A guide to money management for people with disabilities
