September 2024
NEW! Journey Community of Practice
Join us for The Journey: Community of Practice, a revitalized format for the Journey Webinar! In these live zoom sessions, you will have the opportunity to network with teachers and other professionals, learn about popular transition topics, share what your team is doing within these areas, and find solutions together while highlighting useful tools and best practices. You won’t want to miss out! Register for each session in our flyer and share with a colleague.
Don’t miss out on our first Community of Practice on September 30 from 3-4 pm where we will be discussing Age Appropriate Transition Assessments and Adult Life Visioning! Register now.
NEW! Cross-Agency Training Opportunity
Establishing Families as Partners in the Secondary Transition Planning Process
Are you looking to boost your team’s knowledge and capacity for family engagement? Sign up for your cross-agency training this fall! Together, we can inform and empower families to create a more seamless transition from secondary education to adulthood. Regional training opportunities coming soon. Email us today for more details! ItStartsWithFamilies@dodd.ohio.gov.
New! Take 5 Videos
Bringing Fathers Forward
Join Tom Hess & Mark Butler as they talk about Bringing Fathers Forward! They will review the most recent survey results from fathers in Ohio and talk about how your organization or school can engage and empower dads, grandfathers, and father-figures, to be a powerful part of a youth with a disability's life!
Watch Bringing Fathers Forward
Ohio P2P - Ohio Parent-to-Parent Statewide Mentoring and Support Program
Learn how to build your circle of support and connect with other families through peer mentoring! No parent should feel alone. Ever.
Catch the LTC Around Ohio this Fall
- Empowering Families Symposium in Cincinnati, OH
- The LTC team will be joined by some Charting the LifeCourse Ambassadors at the Empowering Families Symposium in Cincinnati, OH on September 27th. We will be handing out information and resources along with helping families complete a Trajectory Tool for their child’s future. The Empowering Families Symposium is provided annually through a collaboration of many community organizations and focuses on learning how to advocate for children and adolescents with special needs. Questions or Interested in Learning More? Contact empoweringfamilies@cchmc.org.For details on how to get your tickets, click here.
- Virtual Good Life Conference
- The LTC will be facilitating sessions on backwards planning and highlighting additional OCALI tools and resources at the annual SST 3 Good Life Conference on October 17th. Learn more about the virtual conference and register to attend today.
- Wood County Assistive Technology Fair
- The LTC and Assistive Technology & Accessible Education Materials (AT&AEM) Center are teaming up for a session on Assistive Technology and Transition at Wood County Board of DD’s Assistive Technology Fair on October 23rd. Those in attendance will also be able to visit with local assistive technology and remote support vendors, attend breakout sessions, and participate in a Make & Take event! Come celebrate AAC Awareness month and Assistive Technology Awareness (a month early!). Click here for more information.
- OPRA Conference in Columbus, OH
- Want to get hands-on practice and assistance using Charting the LifeCourse tools for challenging situations and difficult conversations? Join us and our DODD and UCCEDD partners at the OPRA Fall Conference on October 24th for our session From Stuck to Unstoppable: Using LifeCourse Tools to Break Through Barriers.
OCALICON Sessions in November
From Silos to In-Sync: Using OCALI's New MAP Tool to Build Your County-Based MAP Team
Presented by: Alex Corwin
Research shows that students engaged with 3 or more agencies before graduation have greater success in post-school employment, and education. Learn how schools, County Boards of DD, Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, Family and Children First Councils, mental health boards, and more agencies can help students and families navigate transition planning. OCALI's new Multi-Agency Planning (MAP) Tool will guide you through a process of creating a shared mission, identifying a root cause, and sharing leadership to help students and families build the skills needed for adult life.
Thriving in the Adult World Through Person-Centered Planning!
Presented by: Starr Dobush
This session shares examples and strategies through our individual journeys with autism throughout the transition years into adulthood. This session shows how person-centered planning can be effective in the following areas: employment, housing, communication, independent living, self advocacy, transition from school age to adult services, college, Medicaid waivers/HCBS and so much more. Participants will leave with OCALI resources and materials to use a person-centered approach in supporting the transition to adulthood.
Partnering for Progress: Supporting Youth Skill Development In Grades K-5
Presented by Jenna Allen and Elizabeth Wietmarschen
In this session, educators and families learn practical strategies to support elementary students' skill development. We'll explore how to use the newly developed OLAF tool together to assess skills and prioritize areas for growth. Participants will discover effective ways to incorporate skill development goals into educational plans such as the IEP, ensuring that learning experiences are tailored to each student's unique needs. Both teachers and families will feel empowered to collaborate effectively and provide targeted support to help students thrive academically and personally.
Ohio Clinicians can earn CEUs/CMEs at no cost!
Through a Transformative Technology grant funded by Ohio’s Department of Developmental Disabilities, IntellectAbility is offering Ohio clinicians free access to The Curriculum in I/DD Healthcare. This first-of-its-kind, self-paced eLearning course provides practical, immediately applicable insights, empowering clinicians to enhance the evaluation and treatment of patients, ultimately driving better health outcomes and advancing health equity for people with I/DD. It also contains CMEs for physicians and CEUs for nurses.
We have officially MOVED!
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