Free Parent Workshop
Working Together to Help Our Youth Succeed!
Transition Planning & Self Determination
Please join POPIN Parent Trainer, Kathy Powell to learn how to begin to equip your youth with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need to assume primary control and responsibility for an array of life activities.
Fleming Island Main Library
Transition Planning: Supporting Person-Centered Outcomes
Person Centered Planning is an ongoing problem-solving process used to help people with disabilities plan for their future. In person-centered planning, groups of people focus on an individual and that person's vision of what they would like to do in the future. This "person-centered" team meets to identify opportunities for the focus person to develop personal relationships, participate in their community, increase control over their own lives, and develop the skills and abilities needed to achieve these goals. Person Centered Planning depends on the commitment of a team of individuals who care about the focus person. These individuals take action to make sure that the strategies discussed in planning meetings are implemented.
Opening Doors to Self-Determination Skills
Students who have self-determination skills have a stronger chance of being successful by addressing the need for self-determination skills among adolescents, including some of the major components of self-determination which are: Knowledge of self and others, Personal management, Effective communication, Self-advocacy and advocacy within systems, Decision-making, Goal setting & Problem-solving
These experiences help a young person test his or her strengths as a self-advocate, adult outcome for the students were assessed using a scale completed by parents.