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
  • AVITA Supported Employment Brochure
• 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 )
  • Job Readiness and Career Planning
• Transportation
  • Ride Share
  • Dial A Ride