FAQs

Strategies

Transitions to Adulthood

What steps do I need to take to prepare the student and family and when should I start?

• CLBC's Individual Support Plan for Adults (external link)
• Cross Ministry Protocol (pdf)
• Microboards (pdf)
• Transition Step By Step (pdf)

What is a PATH?

• PATH Description (pdf)
• PATH Facilitators (pdf)
• PATH Guidelines (pdf)
• PATH Sample (pdf)
• PATH Sample 2 (pdf)
• PATH Shell (pdf)

What kind of information do I need to gather?

• Interviewing People From Future Environments (pdf)
• Leisure Inventories (pdf)
• Transition Checklist (pdf)

How do I find activities within my community?

• Jobs For Adulthood (pdf)
• Sample Community Service Guide (pdf)
• Sample Internet Environmental Scan (pdf)
• Special Needs Work Experience Adult Environmental Scan (pdf)
• Transportation Options (pdf)

How do my student's motivators translate into age appropriate adult activities?

• Motivator's Shell (pdf)
• Sample Adult Motivators (pdf)

What kinds of activities should I schedule into the last year of school?

• Adult Implementation Plan (pdf)
• Last Year Schedule (pdf)
• Sample Community Activity Matrix (pdf)
• Sample Social Calendar (pdf)
• Sorting Job Movie (.mov)

How can my student use his/her voice output device in the community?

• Community Voice Output Ideas (pdf)

How might my student use a switch and AbleNet Powerlink interface to participate as an adult?

• Adults Using Switches With Appliances (pdf)
• Community Switch Ideas (pdf)

What kinds of communication tools can help new adult workers get to know my student?

• Adult Day Planner (pdf)
• Choice Making Options (pdf)
• Sample Skills For Adulthood (pdf)

How can my student continue to access needed equipment once s/he becomes an adult?

• Funds For Equipment As An Adult (pdf)

What kinds of tools should I develop to assist the group home or adult day program?

• Job Communication Board (pdf)
• Sample Excellent Day Checklist (pdf)
• Sample Of How I Make Choices (pdf)

What are other adults doing?

• Caya (external link)
• Parents Journey - Adulthood (pdf)
• Riding Bus Movie (.mov)

How can I help new adult workers become familiar with the student?

• Adult Workers Handbook (pdf)

• Advocate for Service Quality (external link)
• Planning Wills & Estates, etc. (external link)
• Vela Microboards (external link)

What incentives are available to employers who want to hire individuals with disabilities?

• The Opportunities Fund through the BC Centre for Ability (external link)
• Youth Skills BC (external link)

What opportunities are there for individuals to pursue post-secondary education if they have a developmental disability?

• Steps Forward (external link)

• BC Compas RDSP Presentation 2011 (ppt)
• Disability Tax Credit Certificate (pdf)
• RDSP brochure (pdf)
• RDSP Communique to Community Partners (pdf)