The Career Development Strategies for Youth in Transition webinar provides strategies and tools for families and professionals to engage youth in career development. 

This website is a resource offered by the Social Security Administration that provides information for people with disabilities who are applying for benefits for the first time.

First Step: A Youth Practitioner’s Resource Guide to Supportive Services:  Provides quick and easy access to a wide range of programs and services at the state or local level and helps program staff identify potential partnerships that can maximize services to youth.

This website leads to an organization that encourages the practice of self-advocacy among youth with disabilities.

A website that provides a number of informative resources on the topic of the transition of persons who are disabled from youth to adulthood.

A website published by the U.S. Department of Education that provides a variety of information pertaining to youth who are transitioning from high school to college, or from college to career.

Soft Skills to Pay the Bills: Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success: Offers youth development professionals a curriculum for workplace interpersonal and professional skills that targets youth ages 14 to 21 in both in-school and out-of-school environments. Created by USDOL's Office of Disability Employment Policy.

The Start Early: Transition and the Importance of Preparation webinar explores some of the skills and abilities needed to successfully transition from high school to work or higher education. Additionally, supports needed for students entering the world of work and higher education and challenges students face in both areas are discussed.

Texas Parent to Parent (TxP2P) is committed to improving the lives of Texas children who have disabilities, chronic illness, and/or special health care needs. TxP2P empowers families to be strong advocates through parent-to-parent support, resource referral, and education.

This website leads to a guide that prepares high school educators to answer questions that students who are disabled may ask about their transition from high school to postsecondary education.

The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth), the Office of Disability Employment Policy's youth technical assistance center, recently published a new InfoBrief entitled Understanding the New Vision for Career Development: The Role of Family. This InfoBrief introduces families, including families of youth with disabilities, to a new way of looking at career development for youth. This brief discusses the three phases of career development, highlights Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) as a tool for facilitating the career development process, and offers strategies on how families can support the young people in their lives as they pursue lifelong learning and skill-building in preparation for entering the world of work.

This is a compilation of best practices providing a snapshot of cooperative youth service strategies  underway in Minnesota's 16 workforce service areas.