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  2. Vocational Rehabilitation
  3. Policy/Processes/Guidance
  4. Toolkits/Guides/Manuals
  5. Transition Action Guide
  6. Benefits of Successful Collaboration

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Benefits of Successful Collaboration

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Students DPI:

  • Improved post school outcomes in the areas of education/training, employment, and independent living
  • Timely access to supports and services after high school
  • Greater self-determination, empowerment
  • Active community involvement and integrated employment settings

Parents/Legal Decision Maker:

  • Timely help, answers, and guidance from a local team of stakeholders communicating and collaborating regularly
  • Seamless service with fewer frustrations
  • Increased understanding of roles and duties of stakeholders
  • More hope for student’s future
  • Less worry about student’s future

Teachers and School Team Members:

  • Diverse team to meet student's disability related need(s)
  • Streamlined transition for families
  • Identification of stakeholders to resolve problems
  • More job satisfaction as student succeeds
  • Improved communication among stakeholders

Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Representatives:

  • Timely and appropriate referral of youth
  • Maximizing resources, reducing duplication
  • Improved transition planning, coordination of services for youth
  • Earlier involvement to help students make more informed choices about employment
  • Better communication to improve teamwork

DHS Long Term Care Professionals:

  • Earlier involvement with transition team to provide a seamless transition from school to on-going supports
  • Better communication to improve teamwork and planning for competitive integrated employment outcomes
  • Identification of stakeholders and clarification of their roles and responsibilities to establish efficient and effective communication
  • Maximizing resources and reduction in duplication of services

Behavioral Health Providers:

  • Encourage family voice, growth, and strength
  • Children and families will have access to and choice from an array of supports and services that are responsive to their strengths and needs
  • Access to creative and individualized supports.
  • Consistency in the care provided through Wisconsin children system of care principles
  • Earlier involvement with transition team to provide a seamless transition from school to on-going supports
  • Better communication to improve teamwork and planning for competitive integrated employment outcomes
  • Identification of stakeholders and clarification of their roles and responsibilities to establish efficient and effective communication
  • Maximizing resources and reduction in duplication of services

Aging and Disability Resource Center or Tribal Aging and Disability Resource Specialist (Tribal ADRS) Representatives:

  • Increased understanding of stakeholder roles and responsibilities
  • Improved communication among stakeholders
  • Improve planning and coordination of services for youth exiting high school