Transition Resources

Prepare for Life After High School

Build everyday skills for health, money, and daily life after high school.

Find tools that help you get ready for adult life. Explore resources about health care, daily living, self‑advocacy, and your rights as a young person with a disability.
Use these resources with your family, school team, or service providers to plan for life in your community.

Health and wellness Health and wellness
Independent living skills Independent living skills
Self-advocacy and rights Self-advocacy and rights
Planning for adult life Planning for adult life
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Taking Care of Your Health

Learn how to move from pediatric to adult health care and manage your own health needs.

As you get older, you may begin to take a more active role in your health care. Health transition resources can help you learn how to:

Make and keep appointments Make and keep appointments
Talk with doctors and nurses Talk with doctors and nurses
Keep track of medications and health information Keep track of medications and health information
Understand and use health insurance Understand and use health insurance
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education and training?

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Building Skills for Daily Life

Practice skills for living, working, and taking part in your community.

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Independent living means having the skills and supports you need to live as safely and independently as possible. These resources can help you learn about housing, transportation, money management, and daily routines.

Youth Voice, Youth Choice

Learn about self-advocacy, decision-making, and your rights as you move into adulthood.

    • Youth stories and videos
    • Supported decision-making resources
    • Tools for transition planning
Visit Center for Youth Choice, Youth Voice ↗

Checklists and guides to help you plan where and how you want to live.

Overcoming Obstacles is a free, research-based life skills curriculum with hundreds of interactive lessons for elementary, middle, and high school students. The activities help young people build important skills such as communication, decision-making, goal setting, problem solving, and financial management that support success in school, work, and daily life. Educators, families, and youth can access and download materials from the digital library at no cost.

    • Free downloadable life-skills lessons and activities
    • Topics include communication, goal setting, and problem solving
    • Lessons on career readiness, financial skills, and teamwork
    • Resources available for elementary through high school learners
Explore Overcoming Obstacles ↗

Independent Living in Action

Real examples of building confidence and daily living skills in the community.

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Knowing Your Rights and Speaking Up

Learn how to share your needs, make choices, and understand your legal protections.

Self‐advocacy means speaking up for yourself and being involved in decisions about your life. Knowing your rights helps you ask for what you need at school, at work, and in the community.

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Planning for Life After High School

Use planning tools to bring health, living, work, and learning together.

Transition planning works best when health, education, employment, and independent living are all considered together.

PA Planning for the Future Checklist

A Pennsylvania guide to help youth and families prepare for life after high school.

This helpful checklist walks students and families through important steps for adulthood. It includes ideas and planning tips for different age ranges so you can gradually build skills and prepare for life after high school.

    • icon1 Age-based planning tips from middle school through young adulthood
    • icon2 Covers education, employment, independent living, and community life
    • icon3 Helpful guide for youth, families, and educators
    • icon4 Supports conversations during IEP and transition planning meetings
Download the PA Planning for the Future Checklist
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Planning Together as a Team

Resources that help youth, families, and professionals plan together.

Family and team planning resources offer ideas for how youth, families, educators, VR counselors, and community partners can work together. These materials support shared decision-making and clear communication.

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    • icon7 Ideas for preparing for meetings
    • icon8 Tips for including youth voice in every step
Explore Family and Team Planning Resources
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Next Steps in Your Transition Journey

Use these resources to take action and update your transition plan.

After you explore health, independent living, and advocacy resources, think about what you want to focus on first. You can build your independence one step at a time.

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Connect Learning to Your Plan

Use what you learned from the tools in your IEP or transition planning meetings. You can:

    • Bring completed checklists or worksheets to your meetings
    • Share what you learned about health care, daily living, or your rights
    • Ask your team to include new goals in your plan
Talk with Your Transition Team ↗

Explore Related Pages

Transition planning includes education, work, and life skills. Visit related pages to explore other parts of your journey.

Visit Educational Courses ↗ Visit Interest Inventories ↗
Visit Career Exploration Resources ↗

Need Help or Want to Share Feedback

If you need support using these resources, or if you want to share ideas about what would be helpful, please reach out.

Contact P2P Team ↗