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AGENCIES THAT MAY BE HELPFUL

Below are links for agencies that might be important during and after high school.  This includes information on Social Security disability benefits.  You can still work some hours and earn benefits!
    

Next Move

My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.

OVR: Transition from School to Work

Any high school student with a disability who may need vocational guidance and assistance in preparing for, obtaining, or maintaining competitive employment should be considered for referral to the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR). Students who have an Individualied Educational Program (IEP), a 504 Plan, or who are involved with a school's Student Assistance Program may be appropriate referrals to OVR.

Pennsylvania Secondary Transition Guide

This website, which is continually updated, provides youth, young adults, parents, and professionals with secondary transition resources to facilitate a young person’s progress towards post-secondary goals related to education, employment, and community living. Scroll through this homepage to find topics that are of interest to you.

School Counselors

School Counselors design, implement and maintain a program that focuses on the personal/social, academic and career development of ALL students in collaboration with parents, school staff and the Lower Dauphin Community.  Each counselor works with a specific grade level and remains with that class of students throughout high school. This system allows us the opportunity to get to know our students well and to observe their academic and personal growth over the course of their high school careers.

Lots of very useful links.

Special Needs Alliance

The Special Needs Alliance (SNA) is a national, not for profit organization of attorneys dedicated to the practice of disability and public benefits law. Individuals with disabilities, their families and their advisors rely on the SNA to connect them with nearby attorneys who focus their practices in the disability law arena.

Special Needs Answers

The Academy of Special Needs Planners consists of special needs planning professionals such as attorneys, financial planners and trust officers that assists them in providing the highest quality service and advice to persons with special needs and to their families.

Transition into Adult Living in Pennsylvania

Provides a checklist, resources, and steps to assist youth and families in making a successful transition to adult living that includes health and health care.