1. CA Institute on Secondary Transition Build a Bridge to the Future Community Partnerships to Support Transition for Individuals with Disabilities
Anjali Atkins, LBUSD
Kurt Kosbab, HBUHSD
Linda O’Neal, IUSD December 3, 2013
Ann Sebek, IUSD

2. Partnerships are essential…
Organizations cannot afford to provide all services needed by clients
Increases your organizations ability to access funding and/or services
Helps to eliminate duplication of services
Provides an opportunity for you to become familiar with the organizational priorities and requirements of partner agencies
Promotes an improved service delivery system in your community
Collaboration helps to promote comprehensive services for students/clients/consumers

3. School District Supported Transition Services
Familiarize yourself with the political structure of your organization
School, department & district
Work with Special Education Director/ Coordinator/Program Specialists
Check for funding availability & determine the specifics of service delivery
Reallocation of Funds & Change in Service Delivery
Look for ways to restructure program
Executive Cabinet Approval / Board of Education Approval
Prepare a presentation, follow all procedural requirements
Match Time for possible grants
Procedures for documenting match time given to designated staff

4. Collaboration Strategies
State Interagency Teams
Interagency Agreements Focused on Cooperative Efforts
Identification & Improvement in Systems Issues
Enhanced Funding Streams
Data Collection & Evaluation
Technical Assistance

5. Collaboration Strategies (continued)
Local Interagency Teams
Outcome Focused
Identify, Create and Maintain Services
& Supports.
Flexible in Including New Team Members
Multi-agency service delivery system

6. Orange County Adult Transition Task Force
Service Agencies
Department of Rehabilitation
Regional Center
Social Security Administration
Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation
Health Care Agency/Dept of Mental Health
Disability Rights California
Disability Navigator/One Stop
City of Irvine /Disability Services
Rotary Club
Parents

7. Orange County Adult Transition Task Force…continued
Community Agencies
Adult Service Providers
Special Olympics
Easter Seals
UCP
Autism Spectrum of Support
Educational Agencies
School Districts
County Office of Education
Non-Public Schools
Private Schools
Post-Secondary Education

8. Community Partnership Committees
CA Consortium for Post Secondary Education,
OC Autism & Related Disorders Task Force Employment Work Group
College 2 Career
Long Beach TPP Best Practices Committee
Irvine Business Advisory Committee
Orange County Adult Transition Task Force
CA Employment Consortium for Youth (CECY)

9. Anjali Atkins Career Education Teacher, LBUSD
Forming a Best Practices TPP/WAI Best Practices Committee in Your Community
Anjali Atkins
Career Education
Teacher, LBUSD
December 3, 2013

10. Agenda: TPP/WAI Best Practices Committee History/Background/Purpose
Start with a survey: Survey Monkey
Assign duties/share resources
Meeting Topics
Drop Box and Resources
Introductions:
Administrators/Teachers/Service Providers/Employment Program Staff
How many of you have a TPP program

11. What is TPP?
Contract between Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) and Educational Agency that is established to:
Assist high school students with disabilities transition from school to work and/or postsecondary Education/Training through:
Provide Vocational Training, Work Experience and Job Placement services as well as Follow-Up Employment Services
The goal of TPP is EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT!

12. Def. of Best Practices
Best practices are practical techniques gained from experience that organizations may use to improve internal processes.

13. Long Beach TPP/WAI Best Practices Committee
History/Background/Purpose
Long Beach Unified School District Workability/TPP program desired to establish a committee whose purpose was to share resources and best practices pertaining to local TPP/WAI programs (assessments, curriculum utilized, program systems and protocols, successful job development methods, use of technology, special events etc)

14. Survey Monkey Results The MATH Speaks for itself!
Received 25 surveys out of the 31 surveys sent (based on RSVPs)
This avenue can help us make group decisions save time and be more efficient
79.2% would like to hold the meetings here at Tucker.
76% would like to keep the TPP Best Practices Committee Meetings from 10am-12pm, every last Wednesday of the month.
Changes will be made as needed and are reflected on the calendar provided
Food or no food?

15. TOP RATED TOPICS 85% and up
Job Development: Networking/ Share Employer Connections
Job Development: Implementing an Employment Action Plan
Job Development: Job Retention Strategies
TPP Technology: Programs Share TPP Database/ TPP Website Information-
TPP Curriculum and Instruction
Career & Vocational Strategies
Methods of effective DOR Counselor/ TPP Staff Communication and Collaboration
Assessment Tools

16. SAMPLE (BPC) Meetings Schedule
February
9th
Job Development: Networking/ Share Employer Connections
March
30th
Job Development: Implementing an Employment Action Plan, Corporate Job Development and Connecting with Human Resources, Compton Unified Overview
April
20th or 12th
Job Development: Job Retention Strategies
May
25th
TPP Technology: Programs Share TPP Database/ TPP Website Information- LAUSD- Joseph Green Filermaker/DOTS Lausd Website
Christine Suh-Green Dot-Share Website?
June
15th
TPP Curriculum and Instruction 4 hour meeting with lunch potluck 9:30-1:30
July
27th
JD Workgroups/ Curriculum work groups, TPP BPC group activities
August
24th
TPP Local/Regional Culmination Honoring Students/Employers?
Sept
28th
Career & Vocational Strategies
October
26th
Methods of effective DOR Counselor/ TPP Staff Communication and Collaboration
November
Assessment Tools and Plan Meeting Dates for Year 2012
There is a sign up sheet going around

17. OTHER TOP RATED TOPICS
Program Structure-organizational staffing and structure of the program
Program Referral/ Recruitment Process
(To be incorporated into monthly meetings)

18. MONTHLY MEETING SCHEDULE
10:00-10:20 A TPP Program Overview Presentation 10:20-10:30 Question, Answer, Share Ideas 10:30-11:15 BPC Monthly Topic Presentation or Session 11:15-12:00 Question, Answer, Share Ideas, Networking Time

19. Monthly Meeting Structure
At each meeting, 1 TPP Program will sign up to do a less than 20 minute PPT on their Program Overview :
Program Structure-organizational staffing and structure of the program (4 slides or less)
Program Referral/ Recruitment Process (2 slides or less)
Top ten resources/lessons that are the essential to the success of their program (with websites, handouts) (ie. used for Interest Profiler and Budgeting) (2 slides)
After the presentation, their will be 10 minutes of question and answer time

20. MEETING STRUCTURE CONT.
Each month, 1-2 programs who know that they have a strength or a best practice in the topic of the month, will discuss the topic of the month (30-45 minutes) or facilitate the topic
Please sign up to facilitate a meeting or discuss your best practices for the topic specified
Survey Monkey if needed, LBUSD TPP can help with this
ie:
March Meeting Topic: JD: Implementing an Employment Action Plan
Richard Rosenberg Whittier Union- signs up as BPC speaker
He presents on the topic for minutes and there is question answer, sharing of ideas session for 30 minutes.
There is a sign up sheet going around, If a survey is necessary, to focus the meeting on our needs, TPP LBUSD can provide that prio

21. TPP BEST PRACTICES COMMITTEE ROLES
Blogger, Google Group Co-OP Tech Person
Recorder- TPP Staff
Organizer-?
Host-TPP
Speakers-need to sign up
Time keeper
Other roles?
This person would create the tech, get ed resources, ppt, attachments of docs to utlize as a one stop TPP resource/ collaboration

22. Drop Box
Drop Box is an online tool that is utilized by LB TPP/WAI BPC to share and update resources/documents.
Refer to Handout
All folders/subfolders included in the TPP/WAI BPC Drop Box

23. LB TPP BPC Members:
The committee involves many programs from various districts in the region that include:
Whittier Union High School District
Irvine Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Torrance Unified School District
Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach Unified School District
Compton Unified School District
Anaheim Unified School District
…and more

24. Topics Addressed/Presented/ How it could enhance your program systems Delivery
Refer to Handout
Mention how it has benefited your programs
What topics would you want to address and have presented at your Best Practices Committee meetings?

25. Brainstorming
What steps would you take in establishing a similar committee?
Who would you want involved in the committee?

26. Thank You for all you do for students!
Feel free to contact us, we love collaborating and sharing resources:
Anjali Atkins

27. Collaborating with PSE Advisory/ Steering Committees in Your Community
Kurt Kosbab
Vocational Specialist, HBUHSD
Collaborating with PSE Advisory/ Steering Committees in Your Community
December 3, 2013

28. What is Postsecondary Education?
PSE is education beyond what is considered typical of high school education (ages 18-22)
Options for students with intellectual disabilities include:
Transition Adult community-based, functional instructional program on/off campuses
Community College
Four-year colleges and institutions
Vocational & technical colleges
Various forms of adult-education
Existing Opportunities … What does PSE look like? 28

29. Why Postsecondary Education (PSE)?
Research finds … “Students with intellectual disabilities who had some type of PSE experience”
were much more likely to obtain competitive employment,
required fewer supports, and
earned higher wages
had increased self-esteem and
expanded social networks that included students without disabilities.
(Zaft, Hart & Zimbrich 2004)
Why Postsecondary Education (PSE)? What are the benefits to those who participate and to the systems charged with supporting them? 29

30. Community of Practice Partnership Dept
Community of Practice Partnership Dept. of Rehabilitation & CA Community Colleges College to Careers Programs (C2C)
Effective 2011, DOR is making
$1,250, available per year, $250, per site,
for 3 years to fund 5 community colleges
to develop pre-vocational, vocational, job training
& placement programs and services.
Colleges currently participating:
Sacramento City College, San Diego City College,
College of Alameda, Santa Rosa JC, and
North Orange County Community College District
State & local sources of support for Postsecondary Education 30

31. The More You Learn…the More You Earn
Wagner & Cameto, 2005
2007 Median Earnings: 20-25yr olds
Completing High School Increases Earning Power
Bar graph, Earning Power
*2007 Median Earnings
(Population of years olds and – $33,452)
Educational Attainment **Earning Power
Less than high school graduate $19,405
High school graduate $26,894
Some college or Associate’s degree $32,874
Bachelors degree $46, 805
Graduate or professional degree $61,287
*All Statistics furnished by the US Census Bureau
**In the past 13 months inflation adjusted dollars
Finishing high school really can make a difference; in dollars and in sense. It’s a fact; according to the US Census Bureau, graduates earn considerably more than students who dropout and begin a career immediately.
The employed dropout earns about $19,000 per year. Over 40 years of employment he or she will potentially earn, $1.3 million dollars less than peers with a diploma and a four year degree. In addition, the employed dropout takes 3-11 years to find initial employment and stable employment with benefits. (Wagner and Camento, 2005) 31

32. Higher Education Opportunities Act Signed in to law 2008
Comprehensive Transition and Postsecondary Education
Programs for Students with ID
Desired Outcomes:
The college experience
Mirrors ITP Outcomes
Education/Training, Employment, Independent Living
Support Services ~ Guidance and Advisement
Inclusive Opportunities, Community Integration
Federal sources of support for Postsecondary Education 32

33. California Employment Consortium for Youth (CECY)
Stakeholders & Collaborators:
DoR
Education
Developmental Disabilities (DD)
State Council on DD Agencies
Disability Rights CA
Self-Advocacy Group
Family Resource Centers Network
Association of Regional Center Agencies
Tarjan Center
Others

34. Meaningful Outcomes ~ Bill
Exited June 2013
Vons Courtesy Clerk
Attends Community College
Agency Support DOR RCOC OCAAC
WA I / Transition

35. Transition Planning & Collaboration
Daniel
Exits December 2013
Employer - Landmark Federal Court Bldg
Attends Continuing Ed
Agency Support
DoR
RCOC
Goodwill SE WA I / Transition
OCTA Independent Travel

36. What is Postsecondary Education?
PSE is education beyond what is considered typical of high school education (ages 18-22)
Options for students with intellectual disabilities include:
Transition Adult community-based, functional instructional program on/off campuses
Community College
Four-year colleges and institutions
Vocational & technical colleges
Various forms of adult-education
Existing Opportunities … What does PSE look like? 36

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38. Forming a Business Advisory Committee in Your Community
Ann Sebek
Job Developer,
IUSD
Forming a Business Advisory Committee in Your Community
December 3, 2013

39. Business Advisory Committee Description
The BAC was established to promote a partnership between local businesses/employers and employment & training programs.
The general purpose of the Business Advisory Council is to provide advice, guidance, and support for the continuing development of high quality work force development programs.
Business partners are recruited to share their insight and expertise specific to their company and the industry sector they represent.
Employment preparation programming staff from a variety of agencies learn from business experts.
Business partners and programming staff are provided opportunities to highlight success stories
Programming staff share workforce development strategies & supports

40. BAC Membership
Businesses Representing Job Sectors with work training and employment opportunities in your county/community
Agriculture
Fashion
Health & Science
Hospitality, Tourism & Recreation
Public Service
Marketing, Sales & Service Industry

41. BAC Membership continued…
Education
Post-Secondary Education
Department of Rehabilitation
City Government
One Stop Center / Employment Development Department
Union Representative
Other specific to Your Community

42. Recruitment Strategies
Recruit business partners that represent industry sectors that represent current & future employment opportunities. (Become familiar with labor market Information from your local Workforce Investment Board (WIB)
Indicate the marketing strategies that you use to promote our business partners
Twitter
Pinterest
Brain Shark
Face to Face Invitations
Request business partners share success stories

45. Participant Roles Develops procedural guidelines for BAC operations
Director/Administrator
Develops procedural guidelines for BAC operations
Oversees the development of the Agenda
Approve BAC venue
Assists with identification of BAC participants
Develops materials to be distributed
Develop power-point if needed
Job Developer
Secure the BAC venue & determine amenities
Invite BAC Partners to attend (6 weeks ahead of time)
(This may involve face to face contact…let business
partner know why we need them at the meeting.)
Send a reminder one week ahead of time with the agenda
Send second reminder the day before meeting (attach revised agenda with address of the meeting location)

46. Participant Roles continued…
Program Staff
Prepare materials for the meeting
Make a sign-in sheet
Develop contact directory
Make name card or tags
Make direction signs
Order snacks and coffee if not provided by the business partner
Day of the Event:
1) Bring all materials
2) Put up direction signs at the venue
3) Set up snacks if not provided by the business partner
4) Set up audio visual
5) Place agendas on the table
6) Pass around sign-in sheet
7) Pass around contact directory for revisions

47. Provide an Agenda…

48. BAC Meeting Venues PUBLIC PRIVATE Cal Trans One Stop Center
Irvine City Hall
Irvine Valley College
IUSD
WUHSD
REI
Romano’s Macaroni Grill
Paradise Perks
Double Tree Hotel
Pretend City
IHOP
Chapman University

55. Lessons Learned
Poll your membership for a consensus on the best day and time to meet
Include very specific agenda items. Business partners buy in to the need to be at the meeting.
Include input request from business
(what do we need to learn from them?)
Provide businesses information that will benefit them
WOTC
Other Business tax incentives
Information regarding Paid & non-paid internships
Summer Youth Employment Programs
Keep the meeting to one hour or less
Start on time and end on time

56. Certificate of Appreciation

57. Linda O’Neal Transition Specialist, IUSD
The Benefits of Forming a Local Task Force /Advisory Committee in Your Community
Linda O’Neal
Transition Specialist, IUSD
December 3, 2013

58. OC Adult Transition Task Force (OCATTF)
Orange County Adult Transition Task Force
Meets monthly usually on the first Thursday
10:00 AM-11:30 AM
OCATTF Education Work Group
Meets prior to OCATTF Meeting from
9:00-10:00 AM

59. ORANGE COUNTY ADULT TRANSITION TASK FORCE (OCATTF)
Service Agencies
Department of Rehabilitation
Regional Center
Health Care Agency/Dept of Mental Health
Disability Rights California
Community Agencies
Best Buddies
Special Olympics
Easter Seals
One Stop/America’s Job Center

60. Task Force Partnerships (continued)
Parents
Individuals with Disabilities
School Districts/Adult Schools
ROP
Adult Service Providers
Advocacy Groups
NAMI (National Association on Mental Illness)
City & County Government
Disability Services

62. Community Partnerships Funding

63. Community Partnerships
OC-Links

65. Services BEFORE Collaboration
WORKABILITY I
TPP/DOR
JOB COACHING
JOB COACHING
School
District
WORK EXPERIENCE
STUDENT
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Employer
COMMUNITY ACCESS
BENEFITS
SSA
OCTA

66. STUDENT & FAMILY THE POWER OF COLLABORATION & PARTNERSHIPS
WORKABILITY 1
RCOC
DOR
TPP/DOR
Support
Services
WORK EXPERIENCE
SSA
JOB COACHING
BRIDGES Grant
AGE 18 REDETERMINATION
SPECIALIZED JOB DEVELOPMENT
WORK EXPERIENCE
JOB COACHING
WORK INCENTIVES
HUD HOUSING
BENEFITS PLANNING & MANAGEMENT
MEDI CAL
HEALTH CARE NEEDS
SELF-SUFFICIENCY
MEDICARE
HEALTH CARE NEEDS
STUDENT & FAMILY
CREDIT & BANKING ASSISTANCE
FINANCIAL
INSTITUTIONS
JOB TRAINIG OPPORTUNITTIES
BUSINESS PARTNERS
CAREER PATHWAYS
SPECIALIZED JOB DEVELOPMENT
INTERNSHIPS
JURY DUTY
CERTIFICATIONS
TICKET TO WORK
ROP
TAX FILING SUPPORT (IRS)
PAID JOB
JUDICIAL
NATURALSUPPORT
SUPPORT SERVICES
COMMUNITY ACCESS
FOOD
ONE STOP
EMPLOYER
OCTA
HOUSEHOLD BUDGETING
COLLABORATIVE JOB PLACEMENT SUPPORT
FAMILIES FORWARD
ILS SUPPORT
ADULT SERVICE AGENCY
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT
AMERICA’S JOB CENTER Center
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

67. For More Information… Anjali Atkins, LBUSD (562) 986-6870
Kurt Kosbab, HBUHSD (714)
Linda O’Neal, IUSD (949)
Ann Sebek, IUSD (949)