Supporting youth with IDD and complex behavioral health needs requires teams to not only focus on daily support but also requires planning for upcoming transitions and adult life. This section discusses three considerations where planning is critical and often requires a multi-system team. Watch the videos to learn more about each area of consideration. Next, reflect on your knowledge of each area. Select resources that will provide information about each consideration and will assist in supporting the youth and family to plan for the future across multiple environments.
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Learn why teams that support youth with IDD and behavioral health needs must engage in meaningful planning activities with the family and youth. The videos in this section introduce three priority areas to consider when planning which include Future Planning, Safety, and Family. Select a video to learn more about the impact of that area of consideration when planning for intervention and support.
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Future Planning
Learn why supporting future planning for youth with complex needs is a consideration that should be prioritized.
Video: Future Planning
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After viewing the Future Planning video, select resources that match your level of knowledge of this element. Want an easy tool to keep track of your selected resources? Use the My Essentials Plan for Considerations for Intervention and Support.
- Ohio ISP Facts for Families
This brief overview of the Ohio Individual Service Plan (ISP) assists families to understand how the Ohio ISP helps identify their child’s needs and the services and supports to reach their life goals. Links to additional information on Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) website are included.
- Family Resource Network: Charting the LifeCourse Video Series
Learn about using the Charting the LifeCourse tools from people with lived experience and how to use these tools when planning for a variety of aspects of future life.
- The LifeCourse Nexus
Dig deeper into the Charting the LifeCourse framework to learn how it was developed and the important factors to consider in creating a plan for the future guided by the youth and family.
- Health Care Transition Readiness for Youth, Young Adults, and Families
Watch this short video to learn about considerations for healthcare transition and resources available from Got Transition to assist in the healthcare transition. Downloadable resources will assist a team in healthcare planning.
- Tools for Multi Agency Team Transition Planning
The Ohio Employment First future planning resources for multi-agency teams offers several tools to assist with the planning process for youth. Choose from resources such as Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Guide, Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment Planning Tool, and Backwards Planning Templates.
- Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD)- Students in High School and 14+
Learn about the services and supports that OOD has available for youth with disabilities to assist them on their employment path. Use this information in future planning and to make a youth referral to OOD.
- Ohio ISP Facts for Families
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Family
Understand why supporting families of youth with complex needs should be part of the youth’s plan, especially for families of youth being served in residential programs.
Video: Family Support
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After viewing the Family video, select resources that match your level of knowledge of this element. Want an easy tool to keep track of your selected resources? Use the My Essentials Plan for Considerations for Intervention and Support.
- Connecting Families to DODD and Family Resources
Review the information and resources available on the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) webpage that can help connect families to DODD and other helpful resources.
- It Starts with Families Guide
This brief guide is designed to support professionals serving individuals and their families to become familiar with the research around family engagement and understanding the unique needs of families of youth with disabilities.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Family Members and Caregivers
This NAMI webpage discusses the importance of supporting families of individuals with mental health challenges. Find suggestions to assist and encourage families as they navigate the journey to support their loved ones.
- Ohio F2F and P2P
The Ohio Family to Family Health Information Center (F2F) and Ohio Parent to Parent (P2P) programs offer support for families of children with disabilities and special health care needs. These programs connect families to other families with lived experience to assist them as they navigate new or difficult situations.
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce(ODEW): Families of Students with Disabilities
This ODEW webpage offers tools for assisting families of youth with disabilities to understand and participate in educational planning. Explore the Evaluation Roadmap for Families with Children Ages 3-21 and Secondary Transition Roadmap which are available in multiple languages.
- Stress in Families of Children with Disabilities: Understanding Key Periods and Coping Strategies
Planning with families of children and youth with disabilities requires building a trusting relationship with the family. This resource provides insight into the stress that families face and reviews coping strategies for families to consider.
- Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Family Engagement
This resource provides information and concrete strategies that agencies, residential facilitates, and others can use to engage families of youth in residential programs. Included are steps for organizations that are planning for meaningful partnerships with families and youth in residential treatment programs.
- Connecting Families to DODD and Family Resources
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Safety
Discover why safety considerations are included in support plans for youth with complex needs.
Video: Safety
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After viewing the Safety video, select resources that match your level of knowledge of this element. Want an easy tool to keep track of your selected resources? Use the My Essentials Plan for Considerations for Intervention and Support.
- Autism Speaks: Autism and Safety
The Autism Speaks Safety Project offers resources and information to assist families, teachers, and providers to become more aware of safety risks and to create a safety plan. This information is applicable to children with developmental disabilities other than autism.
- Keeping Your Kids with ASD Safe
This webpage provides a summary of key considerations concerning elopement, water safety and drowning, pica and household toxins, interactions with first responders, and internet safety. This information is applicable to children with a variety of developmental disabilities.
- Home Safe Program
The Home Safe Program supports local efforts to reduce deaths and injuries of people with developmental disabilities who may wander. Two of the Home Safe resources are Considering Locative Technology in the Disability Community: Balancing Autonomy and Safety and Tips for Caregivers Supporting Children on the Autism Spectrum. Both offer information to advance safety in the home and community.
- Being Safe in the Community and Online
The University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities offers a variety of resources to assist teams that support youth with complex and intensive needs. This webinar reviews proactive strategies for safety in the community and online.
- Organization for Autism Research (OAR) Online Relationships and Safety
This resource assists families and providers to address safe relationships. Topics include online information sharing, trusting people that you meet online, rejection, criminal/legal issues, and other sensitive topics to address when considering safety.
- Social Media and Students with Disabilities: A Resource Document
This brief document reviews the potential benefits and concerns of social media for youth with disabilities. It includes safety tips and resources for caregivers and teachers when planning for youth to use the internet.
- The Self-Injury & Recovery Resources (SIRR)
This Cornell University website offers resources related to self-injury and associated conditions. The resources page provides a categorized list by topic and audience. Included in the resources is a fact sheet on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Schools: Developing & Implementing School Protocol.
- Autism Speaks: Autism and Safety
Tools and Resources
Explore tools that can assist with intervention and support for the components included in Planning.
- Charting the LifeCourse – Foundational Tools
Charting the LifeCourse offers a wide range of tools and materials to assist youth and their teams with future planning. The Foundational Tools offer a core set of practical tools for planning, problem-solving, or just thinking about the future.
- Checklist: Creating Safe Spaces for Youth
Youth need an environment where they feel seen, heard, and valued. This checklist offers ideas to build this type of culture into your classroom, community centers, and residential environments. A PDF download option of the checklist is available on the webpage.
- Active Listening Skills 4-Part Series
Need to brush up on listening skills or remind your team of the importance of active listening when working with families and multiple agencies? This series of short videos provides a comprehensive overview of active listening skills.