Rights and Responsibilities

IEP Tip Sheets for Youth

From the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research, these TEST tip sheets are designed for youth and young adults who have individualized education programs (IEPs). One focuses on preparing for an IEP meeting and another focused on identifying community partners to participate in IEP meetings and transition planning.

  • Factsheet, IEP Tip Sheets for Youth

    You Got This: Taking a Leadership Role in Your IEP Meeting

  • Factsheet, IEP Tip Sheets for Youth

    I've Got my Crew: Inviting Community Partners to your IEP Meeting


Dude, Where’s My Transition Plan?
November 20, 2014

Dude, Where’s My Transition Plan? Guide from Formed Families Forward and PEATC.

The youth-friendly guide covers many of the basics of transition preparation and planning, including:

  • Transition planning as part of the IEP
  • Transition services
  • Self-determination
  • Goal setting
  • Employment
  • Post-secondary education
  • Health care
  • Independent living options
  • Managing money
  • Transportation
  • Adult rights and responsibilities
  • MANY national and Virginia resources
  • Toolkit, Dude, Where’s My Transition Plan?


Person-Centered Practices

Person-Centered Practices is a Virginia resource to promote the use of person centered practices among people with disabilities and older adults, their families and supporters in order to create positive change in their own lives, communities and organizations. The Center for Person Centered Practices is a project of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Partnership for Persons with Disabilities. It promotes ways for people to create and maintain positive change in their lives, organizations, and communities through the use of person centered skills and actions.

  • Website, Person-Centered Practices