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Planning for the critical time when students prepare to leave school to enter the world of adult living.

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Express Yourself! Accessing Self-Determination in your Life -  Express Yourself! is a user-friendly self-determination tool for people interested in knowing how much choice and control they have in their lives. Users can pinpoint life areas where they'd like to have more control and decision-making power (such as money or relationships), and then learn how to get started by using action-planning and web-based resources. Areas covered in this self-assessment include finances, housing, transportation, employment, community integration, medical treatment, and mental health care. It is especially useful when paired with This is Your Life! - the Center's person centered-planning guide (see below).  http://www.psych.uic.edu/uicnrtc/sd-self-assessment.pdf

This is your Life  -   This easy-to-use workbook helps people with psychiatric disabilities think about, choose, plan for, and act on a life goal, with supports of their own choosing. The workbook has as its foundation both person-centered planning and the "stages of change" model. It guides people in mental health recovery to see that life change is a process, with natural twists and turns along the way.   http://www.psych.uic.edu/uicnrtc/sdlifeplan.pdf

Raising Difficult Issues with your Care Provider:    This booklet was designed to help you discuss difficult subjects with the people who help you in your life.  It will help you bring up issues that are hard to talk about in a way that is non-threatening and allows your concerns to be heard. http://www.psych.uic.edu/UICNRTC/raisingissues.pdf

KASA (Kids as Self-Advocates) Web site.The KASA web site provides resources, information, and a place to share ideas and experiences, for people interested in issues concerning youth with disabilities and special healthcare needs. The KASA web site is chock full of useful links, newsworthy events, stories, and other personal contributions of KASA youth. At the top of the page are a number of topics to choose from that will take you to fact sheets resources or essays for youth with disabilities as well as Advocacy tools and a bulletin board where questions or remarks can be posted. http://www.fvkasa.org/whatis.asp

Self-Determination: Supporting Successful Transition Nation Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET)
http://ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp?id=962