As your child nears the end of high school, you are undoubtedly thinking about their future. Or perhaps YOU are a young person with a disability who wants more information about what’s next. Welcome!
FACT Oregon has put together resources that look ahead towards adulthood and the next stages: secondary education, employment, and/or independent living.
Diploma Options
Modified Diploma and Extended Diploma
Oregon Department of Education: Oregon Diploma
College & Higher Education 
Oregon’s Transition Resource Handbook 2017-2018
Overview of College Resources for Students with Disabilities
Oregon Department of Education: Transition Network Facilitators
Employment
FACT Oregon Employment First Online Training Modules:
Shift Happens: Your kid can work (Part 1)
Shift Happens: Your kid can work (Part 2)
From Client hood to Personhood
Now What? Discovering Tips and Tools for Discovering your Strengths
Employment Myth Busters
Bill’s Story: Working for a Whole Life
Community Building: Employment and Beyond
Oregon Department of Human Services: Supported Employment Services
Oregon.gov: Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services [OVRS]
Oregon.gov: VR I/DD Counselors; ODE Transition Network Facilitators, ODDS Employment Specialists
Respectability: Jobseekers with Disabilities
Self-Advocacy Online: Stories from Self-Advocates
Office of Student Access and Completion (OSAC)
Estate Planning
Oregon Able Savings Plan
Palladio Group
Guardianship & Conservatorship
Disability Rights Oregon: Guardianship Handbook (Third Edition)
The Arc of Oregon: Guardianship FAQ’s
SupportedDecisionMaking.org
Center for Family Involvement: Alternatives to Guardianship
Beyond Guardianship: Toward Alternatives That Promote Greater Self-Determination for People with Disabilities- Full Report
Health
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center: Health Care for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Oregon Family to Family Health Information Center
Power of Attorney
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Managing Someone Else’s Money: Help for Agents under Power of Attorney
Representative Payees
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Managing Someone Else’s Money: Help for Representative Payees and VA Fiduciaries
Disability Rights Oregon: What is a Rep Payee?
Social Security Administration: When People Need Help Managing Their Money
Self-Determination
ASAN: The Right to Make Choices: International Laws and Decision-Making by People with Disabilities
National Gateway to Self-Determination
Y.O. Disabled and Proud
Supplemental Security Income [SSI]
Social Security Administration: Supplemental Security Income