The School and Community Partnership: Planning Transition for Students with Severe Handicaps

Abstract

This article describes a process to provide solutions to the prevalent problem of interagency collaboration in planning for transition outcomes. The project is implementing and evaluating the process in seven Oregon sites that differed in respect to numbers of students served, rural versus urban, and availability of a range of adult service options. Results to date support the inclusion of procedures such as an outside stimulus to initiate the collaborative effort; locally generated plans; transitions teams empowered with policy-level decision making; and follow-up technical assistance at the administrative and direct service level.