Registration is open for the 2008 Transition Conference!
The 2008 Statewide Transition Conference is being held at the Peoria Civic Center from October 27 – 29, 2008. The conference is dedicated to encouraging the development and implementation of challenging, yet achievable, person-centered goals for young people living with disabilities. The conference is being structured to include interactive workshops that address the topics of post secondary education/training, health care, community, and employment for youth with disabilities. Conference information and registration can be accessed at http://www.cccmeetings.com/transition.pdf .
School District Assistance for Youth Focus Day: On Tuesday, October 28, the conference will have a special youth focus. The Illinois State Board of Education has a limited amount of funding available to support school districts who would like to schedule a field trip to attend the youth focus conference day. A special per student fee of $50 will cover registration including meals, a conference bag and access to the Job Fair, College Fair, Internet Café and conference sessions all day on Tuesday. School districts and/or special education cooperatives should contact Sue Walter via e-mail at smwalter@charter.net or swalter@isbe.net, or via phone at 618-651-9028 to get more information about registering students and accessing the ISBE funding to support student attendance.
Transition Outreach Training for Adult Living (TOTAL) Project
In
October 2002 The US Department of Education, Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) awarded
the Illinois State Board of Education an IDEA Model Outreach
grant to implement a multi-tiered statewide training
and
technical assistance package on research based best practices
in secondary transition. The key focus of TOTAL was to
systematically build capacity to provide state-of-the-art
transition services throughout Illinois. Though the Project
period ended in March 2007, the tools and resources developed
under the Project are supported by the Illinois State
Board of Education and continue to be accessed and implemented
in school districts and special education cooperatives
across the state.
The link below provides additional information
about the TOTAL training modules and access to the TOTAL
module videos,
the power point slides, tools and resources.
TOTAL: Transition Outreach
for Adult Living Training Videos
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