The transition planning process includes evaluating the student’s skills, abilities, strengths, challenges, and preferences to envision their life after leaving school. Planning involves setting goals for the student to strive toward and identifying the need for supports. Carrying out a transition plan can begin and should be a part of the student’s Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). Students and families must be actively involved in the transition planning process as early as possible and keep it moving forward. This presentation discusses the importance of planning, the steps necessary to plan, and provides hands-on tools to put a plan in place. The Arc of New Jersey is happy to present this event completely in Spanish.

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Please join The Arc of New Jersey in this one hour webinar as guest speaker Joseph Zesski, Program Manager of Northeast Americans with Disability Act Center presents "The Americans with Disabilities Act, Disability Rights and the Legal System: An Introduction for Advocates."

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The PCAST project provides training and long-term assistance in schools that introduces a more collaborative and person-centered approach to planning and supports. It provides specific thinking skills and tools that are built around a highly collaborative process. One that values and respects all participants. In this overview presentation, participants will learn in a casual and comfortable online environment about these approaches and efforts have been in practice in New Jersey schools over the past decade.

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The Arc of New Jersey is delighted to present a free webinar on COVID-19 vaccinations for individuals with I/DD with speaker David Adinaro, MD, M.Eng, FACEP, the New Jersey Department of Health Deputy Commissioner for Public Health Services since June 2020. David has had a long and distinguished medical career, including serving as the Chief of Emergency Medicine and Vice President/Chief Medical Officer at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Paterson. During this webinar, Dr. Adinaro will explain New Jersey's plans for COVID-19 vaccinations for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their caregivers. He will be able to provide important information, including an anticipated timeframe of when and where the COVID-19 vaccine will be available.

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