Special Education
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Transition for Students with Developmental Disabilities
Community Services and Supports
- Home and Community Services Guide (GA Department of Community Health)
- Full Listing of Mediaid Waiver and Applications (medicaid.georgia.gov)
- Family Supports Application (A service funded through DBHDD but serviced through AVITA)
- AVITA Services (Have your Family Support Application Ready to submit and call AVITA at 678-513-5799)
- Disability Resource Center (private, non-profit, non-residential independent living resource center)
NOW/COMP Waiver
- NOW/COMP Waiver Fact Sheet
- NOW/COMP Waiver Application and Information
- Release of Information (attach this to application if FCS is sending records to DBHDD)
- NOW/COMP Waiver Application Step by Step Checklist
*Having Family Supports prior to the NOW/COMP application may support the fact that the family is exhausting all resources.
Katie Beckett and Medicaid
- Parent Summit 2021 Video: Katie Beckett (Presented by Attorney, DJ Jeyaram)
- Link to the Applications and forms
- Katie Beckett and Medicaid Informational Materials (Parent to Parent of GA)
Day Programs and Supported Employment Providers
- AVITA
- PRISM
- LEAP
- Just People
- Goodwill Industries of NG
- PIER Foundation
- Creative Enterprise
- InCommunity (Formally EnAble)
- Annandale Village
- Our Neighbor, Inc.
- Randy and Friends
- New Directions Georgia, Inc.
- Stacey's Place (includes Respite)
- PPF Integrated Day Program
- Champions Place (Independent/Residential Living for Individuals with Physical Disabilities)
Leisure and Recreation
- Special Olympics Forsyth County
- Special Olympics Georgia
- Miracle League
- Therapeutic Recreation Camps
- 2021 Camps and Respite for Special Needs
- GA Summer Camps for Special Needs
Transition Planning
- Guardianship and Estate Planning
- Parent Summit 2021 Video: Guardianship (presented by Attorney, DJ Jeyaram)
- GCDD Guide When Thinking About Guardianship
- Guardianship and Special Needs Resource Videos (Nadler Biernath LLC)
- Thinking About Guardianship (Protection and Advocacy, KY)
- Age of Majority: Parent's Guide
- Stop Look and Listen-Planning for Independence (Collaboration with SC ARC and others)
- Healthcare and Transition
- Healthcare and Age of Majority (parentcenterhub.org)
- 18 and Incharge of My Health (2009, CMS Network)
- Assessment for Healthcare Transition Readiness-Youth (Got Transition)
- Assessment for Healthcare Transition Readiness -Parent/Guardian (Got Transition)
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid
- The Supplemental Security Income Application Process (PACER)
- SSI Red Book - (ssa.gov)
- Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool
- SSI and Student Earned Income Exclusion
- SSI - Child and Adult Starter Kit (ssa.gov)
- SSI Application Checklist
- Rental Agreement for SSI (sample from Benefits Navigator)
- Reporting your Earnings to Social Security
- Financial Planning
- Financial Planning Tool Kit (Autism Speaks)
- Georgia Stable Brochure
- State of Georgia STABLE Website
- An Overview of ABLE Accounts (Video by ARC)
- An Overview of Special Needs Trusts (Video by ARC)
- Life Skills
- Enhancing Independent Lifeskills At Home (Center on Transition Inovations)
- Life Skills Inventory and Independent Living Skills Assessment Tool (Washington State Division of Children and Family Services)
- Post-Secondary Inclusion
- 20 Powerful Strategies to Prepare for the Inclusive College (Club College Bound)
- Foundation Skills for College and Career Planning (Think College)
- Conducting the Inclusive College Search (Think College)
- Frequently Asked Questions of FC Parents
- Think College Website
- Career Planning (See also Day Programs for their Supported Employment Services and )
- Transportation