The Life Skills Manual: Strategies for Maintaining Residential Stability.

The Life Skills Manual is an evidence-based curriculum that provides the content and resources needed to teach life skills to individuals who need assistance in this area. The curriculum is designed to be implemented in 6 group sessions, with an individual workbook to help consumers individualize the group content at their own pace. Modules focus on: food and nutrition management; home and self-care; money management; and safe community participation. Electronic copies of the manual are free. Simply complete an order form, provide your email address, and you'll be emailed the manual. Also available in Spanish.

Making the Move to Managing Your Own Personal Assistance Services (PAS): A Toolkit for Youth.

For transition-age youth with disabilities, issues surrounding managing Personal Assistance Services (PAS) can be intensified by normal developmental concerns such as striking out on your own and navigating the road into adulthood. There's also a companion video featuring youth with disabilities who use PAS and several additional tipsheets to successfully manage their own PAS: effective communication, time-management, working with others, and establishing professional relationships.

 Resources To Share with Families 

This section of the Buzz identifies useful resources you might share with families or mention in your own news bulletins. 

Transition to Adult Health Care: Tips for Families.

From Parent to Parent of Georgia comes this handy 2-page brief for families on ways to support their youth's moving from pediatric health care to adult health care. A companion brief called Embedding Health Goals into the IEP is especially helpful when the young person has special health care needs.

What Parents Need to Know About Puberty and Sexuality.

This 38-minute video from the Utah Parent Center addresses one of the more sensitive issues in the journey to adulthood. It's also available in Spanish.

Resources Just for Parent Centers: Working with Youth in Transition

Check out the Transition Coalition's "Presentations" Resource Library on Transition.

You'll find that the Transition Coalition's library includes PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, Word docs, and Webinars with such on-point topics as:

• Transition Multi-Tiered Systems and College and Career Readiness 
• Working with Families during Transition Planning 
• Working with Culturally Diverse Families during Transition 
• Transition Assessment: The Big Picture 

You'll need to create an account (which is free) in order to access any and all of these modules.

Heard of YO!? 

In the context of our issue's theme, YO! stands for Youth Organizing Disabled and Proud. In YO!'s own words, "YO! connects, organizes and educates youth with disabilities! YO! gives youth leadership opportunities, social networks, resources, and more. YO! is for youth with disabilities to be PROUD of who we are and what we can achieve!" Check it out!