The Tools You Need
These are our favorite resources we've gathered to incorporate into our work aimed at helping people with disabilities achieve their employment goals.
Advocacy
Age 18 Redetermination
Assessments
- Pre-ETS Student Self-Assessment
- Career One-Stop
- Taking Assessments
- Values
- Work/Team Styles
- Learning Style
- Character Assessment
- Personality Type Assessment
- Photo Career Quiz
- Career One-Stop: Find Your Interests
- Career Clusters Interest Survey
- Teen Activity: Disclosure > Self-Assessment
- Personal Preferences Indicator: A Guide for Planning
- Employment Readiness Checklist for Students with Disabilities Exiting High School
- ChoiceMaker Self-Determination Assessment
benefits counseling
Business Engagement
- nepris
- Building Relationships with Employers
- Project E3 Webcast: Building Relationships with Employers
- Communities of Practice hosted by WINTAC (Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center)
- Engaging Employers: A Guide for Disability and Workforce Development Service Providers
- A Guide to Networking with Businesses
- Return-to-Work Toolkit for Employees & Employers
- Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)
- Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT) Employer Tools
- Disability:IN
Career Pathways
Career Planning and Job Exploration
- Where R U Now?
- All About You!
- Career Planning and Exploration
- Putting it All Together – The Career Development Checklist
- Photo Career Quiz
- Career One-Stop: Find Your Interests
- Career Clusters Interest Survey
- Career Counseling for Students with Significant Disabilities: Strategies for Success
- Dr. Kit Career Videos
- Career Exploration Videos
- “I Love My Job” Video Series
- O*Net Career Exploration Tools
- Virginia Career View
- Improve Employment Outcomes by Utilizing Career-Related Lesson Plans
- Project E3 Job Exploration Resources
community resources
Customized Employment
Disability Disclosure
- Teen Activity: Disclosure > Self-Assessment
- Teen Activity: Get to Know Your Disability: Interview
- 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities
- Tools for Finding Employment: Disclosing a Visual Impairment
- How to Disclose a Disability to Your Employer (and Whether You Should)
- Disclosing a Disability from the Career OneStop
- Job Accommodation Network Disability Disclosure
Employment
- S’Cool Store – Small Business Concepts
- Career One-Stop
- Classroom Activities & Worksheets: Find a Job
- Non-traditional Career Resources, University of Hawaii
- Non-traditional Career Resources, Minnesota State CAREERwise
- Career Clusters
- My Next Move
- Photo Career Quiz
- Career One-Stop: Find Your Interests
- Career Clusters Interest Survey
- Employment Resource Guide for Youth
- Tips & Steps for Job Coaching Students with Disabilities
- What is a Job Coach? An Overview of the Role of a Job Coach in the Workplace
- Instructional Strategies for Acquisition and Maintenance of Customized Job Tasks
- Innovative Job Placement Strategies
- Project E3 Webcast: Innovative Job Placement Strategies
- The Effectiveness of Customized Employment for Transition-age Youth with Disabilities
- Who Can Assist Me with Developing a Resume?
- Interview Preparation: Common Interview Questions for Job Seekers with Vision Loss
- Getting a Job! for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Transition to Work: Program Activity Guide
- Ticket to Work: Meet Your Employment Team
- Employability Skills Training
- Accommodation and Compliance Series: Job Coaches
- DRIVE: Data and Resources to Inspire a Vision of Employment
- Respectability: Job Search Websites and Job Training Resources
Evidence-Based Practice
Family Advocacy
financial resources
- Your Money Your Goals Toolkit
- Booklets to Help You Talk About Money
- Measuring Youth Financial Capability Survey
- Practical Money Skills’ Lesson Plans
- TheMint.org
- Money Smart for Young People
- Assisting Students with Disabilities to Develop the Competencies Needed to Manage Their Own Financial Resources
- Financial Literacy and Capability
- Money Resources
health
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Practice Deep Breathing
- My Plan to Manage Stress from Before Age 18
- Before Age 18: My Plan to Get Better Sleep
- My Plan to Be More Active from Before Age 18
- Healthy Eating Activity from Before Age 18
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Music for Relaxation
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Practice Meditation
- Preparing For Adulthood: Taking Charge of My Own Health Care
- Got Transition
- Transitioning to Adult Health Care
- Promoting Physical and Mental Well-Being as well as Safety for Students with Disabilities
- My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility
- Physical Activity Tools and Resources
- How to Quit Smoking
- Use the Wellbeing Model to Reduce Stress
- Sleep: Taking Charge of Your Health & Well-Being
- Self-directed Health Care Kit: Taking Charge of Your Own Health
- Disability and Health Information for Specific Groups
- Materials and Multimedia about Disability and Health
- Reaching People with Disabilities through Healthy Communities
- Healthy dating and relationships
- Promote mental health and well-being
- Tips for youth in managing health and well-being
- Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents
Juvenile Justice
Labor Market Information
Mental Health
Peer Mentoring
Postsecondary Education
- College Navigator
- School Beyond High School
- Questions for Disability Services from Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- College Visit Planning Questionnaire
- Wisconsin’s Opening Doors to Postsecondary Education and Training Handbook
- North Carolina’s Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability
- Transition Guide to Postsecondary Education and Employment for Students and Youth with Disabilities
- Youth Action Steps: Education
- Postsecondary Education
- Postsecondary Education and Training Toolkit
- Transition to College: Program Activity Guide for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
- FAQs About College from Families of Students with IDD
- Khan Academy – College Careers
- Florida Project 10 – Post-Secondary Education & Training
- Opportunities Guide and Workbook
- Free College Resource Guides
- Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
- myFuture
- Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
- Next Steps New Hampshire
- Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options Reference Guide
- Florida’s Project 10 Guidance on Postsecondary Options
- Postsecondary Education Program Resources
Pre-ETS
- Pre-ETS Student Self-Assessment
- Career Planning and Exploration
- Considering Labor Market Information in Your Career Choice
- Pre-Employment Transition Services: A Guide for Collaboration Among State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and Education Partners
- Parent Brochure Student Led IEPs
- Student-Led Individualized Education Program (IEP) Rubric
- Work-Based Learning Experiences
- National Deaf Center: Pre-ETS Guide
- Explore-Work.com Training
- National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
- CRP Pre-ETS Guidebook: Strategies for Community Rehabilitation Providers to Collaborate on Pre-ETS
Self-Advocacy
- Dude, Where’s my Transition Plan?
- Teen Activity: How Well Do You Know Yourself?
- Let’s Get To Work – Self-Determination Handbook
- Georgia Transition Manual – Self Determination
- Connecticut’s Stepping Forward – Self-Advocacy Guide
- Personal Preferences Indicator: A Guide for Planning
- In the Driver’s Seat: Six Workshops to Help with Transition Planning and Self Advocacy for Youth with Special Needs
- Roadtrip Nation
- Map It: What Comes Next Module
- Building Self-Advocacy and Self-Care Management Skills
- ME! Lessons for Teaching Self-Awareness & Self-Advocacy.
- Self-Advocacy: Tips for Teens
- Whose Future Is It Anyway?
- Connect to a Mentor
- Healthy dating and relationships
Self-Determination
Self-Employment
Social Security
Supported Employment
ticket to work
Transition
- Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
- Dude, Where’s my Transition Plan?
- Pathways to the Future
- Parent Brochure Student Led IEPs
- Student Led IEPs Teacher Resource
- Transition Guide to Postsecondary Education and Employment for Students and Youth with Disabilities
- WorkforceGPS
- Youthhood’s Curriculum Guide
- In the Driver’s Seat: Six Workshops to Help with Transition Planning and Self Advocacy for Youth with Special Needs
- Work-Based Learning Experiences
- Transition Tennessee – Post-Secondary Education
- T-Folio – Transition Portfolio Tool
- Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
- Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center – Self Determination
- Student Engagement & Success
- Engage AL Transition App
- Whose Future Is It Anyway?
- National Deaf Center: Pre-ETS Guide
- Explore-Work.com Training
- National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
- National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
- CRP Pre-ETS Guidebook: Strategies for Community Rehabilitation Providers to Collaborate on Pre-ETS
transportation
trending
work incentives
Work-Based Learning Experiences
- Work-Based Learning Experiences Activities
- Work-Based Learning Forms from Alaska
- Pathways: Work-Based Learning Programs
- Journey to a Successful Work Experience from the American Printing House for the Blind
- Work-Based Learning Experiences Training
- Work Based Learning Measures Series
- Internships
- Work-Based Learning Experiences
- Work-Based Learning, Illinois, WorkNet Center
- Resources for Setting Up Work-Based Learning, University of Minnesota, CAREERwise
- Massachusetts Work-Based Learning Plan
workplace readiness skills
- Classroom Activities & Worksheets: Find a Job
- Work Maturity Skills Bingo
- Character Assessment
- How to Run a JOBZ Club Manual
- Real Career Effective Employability Skills
- Essential Skills to Getting a Job: What Young People with Disabilities Need to Know
- Habits of Work
- Workplace Skills Curriculum
- Dr. Kit – What Are Essential Skills?
- Essential Skills to Getting a Job: What Young People with Disabilities Need to Know
- Soft Skills
- Employment Readiness Checklist for Students with Disabilities Exiting High School
- Teaching Virginia’s Workplace Readiness Skills
- T-Folio’s Unit 4: Workplace Readiness Training
- Employability Skills Training
- Life Skills Training
- Skills to Pay the Bills
Youth Engagement
Youth Resources
- 100mentors
- S’Cool Store – Small Business Concepts
- Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
- Career Planning and Exploration
- School and Work Estimator
- Classroom Activities & Worksheets: Find a Job
- Dude, Where’s my Transition Plan?
- Before Age 18
- Learning Style
- Personality Type Assessment
- Teen Activity: Disclosure > Self-Assessment
- Teen Activity: Get to Know Your Disability: Interview
- Teen Activity: How Well Do You Know Yourself?
- Employment Resource Guide for Youth
- Connecticut’s Stepping Forward – Self-Advocacy Guide
- Student-Led Individualized Education Program (IEP) Rubric
- Personal Preferences Indicator: A Guide for Planning
- Career Exploration Videos
- Work-Based Learning Experiences
- Youthhood.org
- Getting a Job! for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Transition to Work: Program Activity Guide
- A Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
- Talking about Race
- ChoiceMaker Self-Determination Assessment
- National Deaf Center: Pre-ETS Guide
- Explore-Work.com Training
- National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
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