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Menu Home Overview of Transition Services Transition and Self-Determination CIL Roles and Services for Transition-Aged Youth Self-Determined Career Development Model CIL's Transition Best Practices Links References Credits	Welcome to the Centers for Independent Living: Building Support for Transition-Aged Youth website. The goal of this website is to provide CIL staff and partners with information, resources, and strategies for supporting transition-aged youth to become fully integrated into their communities and to prepare them for independent living. This website is part of a three-year research project funded in by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and awarded to the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Independent Living Management and Services to the Western New York (WNY) Independent Living Project. The WNY Independent Living Project subcontracted with the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas to conduct this project. The purpose of this project was to examine the roles that CILs play with transition-aged youth with disabilities. Specifically, the project: analyzed the literature on CIL involvement in transition-related services and activities for high-school aged youth with disabilities and their families, identified innovative models or best practices of CILs serving youth and their families, and replicated these model programs, conduct training, and disseminate information and resources to the CIL audience. The goal of the website is to provide information to CILs regarding how they can promote transition activities for youth with disabilities. First, we provide a brief overview of transition services and legislation, self-determination issues, and information on the role of CILs in supporting transition. Second, we will list some of the available resources CILs can access to enhance transition services. Finally, we identify best practices or model programs and provide step-by step instructions for implementing these practices. * This project is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, project number NFP25152 and RRTC-ILM - H133B000002	Additional Links Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Independent Living Management KU Center on Developmental Disabilities

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Welcome to the Centers for Independent Living: Building Support for Transition-Aged Youth website. The goal of this website is to provide CIL staff and partners with information, resources, and strategies for supporting transition-aged youth to become fully integrated into their communities and to prepare them for independent living.

This website is part of a three-year research project funded in by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and awarded to the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Independent Living Management and Services to the Western New York (WNY) Independent Living Project.

The WNY Independent Living Project subcontracted with the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas to conduct this project.

The purpose of this project was to examine the roles that CILs play with transition-aged youth with disabilities. Specifically, the project:

analyzed the literature on CIL involvement in transition-related services and activities for high-school aged youth with disabilities and their families,
identified innovative models or best practices of CILs serving youth and their families, and
replicated these model programs, conduct training, and disseminate information and resources to the CIL audience.

The goal of the website is to provide information to CILs regarding how they can promote transition activities for youth with disabilities.

First, we provide a brief overview of transition services and legislation, self-determination issues, and information on the role of CILs in supporting transition.
Second, we will list some of the available resources CILs can access to enhance transition services.
Finally, we identify best practices or model programs and provide step-by step instructions for implementing these practices.

* This project is funded by the
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research,
project number NFP25152 and RRTC-ILM - H133B000002

Additional Links

Rehabilitation Research
and Training Center on
Independent Living
Management

KU Center on
Developmental
Disabilities