Adolescent and Adult Services Development Program

Philip Wilson, Ph.D., Program Director

 

Goal: To serve, support, and advocate for the wants and needs of adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities in achieving their employment, post-secondary education, housing, health, and community dreams.

 

Intended Impact:          Improve school-to-adult life transition services and outcomes

Improve competitive employment services and
            outcomes

Improve health and medical services and supports

Increase home ownership opportunities

Enhance friendships and community connections

Enhance access to social security and one-stop
                                                services

 

Topics/Areas of Expertise:

Demonstration of home ownership services/supports

Demonstration of person-centered planning process/outcomes

Demonstration of adolescent self-determination curricula

Training/technical assistance for education, adult services, and health and medical personnel

Training/support for adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities

Training/support for families

Training/technical assistance for employers, real estate agents, bankers, and other community members

Training/technical assistance on collaborative, interagency teaming

            Training/technical assistance on social security and one-stop services

Research on self-determination and adolescents

Follow-up/follow-along study of former special education students

Research on person-centered planning processes/outcomes

Research on home ownership process/outcomes

 

Overview of Selected

Activities/Accomplishments:

#       Completed 65 A Fact Sheets@ on transition services

#       Conducting a 5-year follow along/follow-up study of former special education youth

#       Conducted a statewide survey regarding roles and competencies of Transitional Specialists

#       Completed a statewide needs assessment on transition services

#       Trained more than 3,500 people in Louisiana and nationally on transition services

#       Including four current sites, assisted 14 sites for self-determination curricula piloting

#       Twenty-six individuals have purchased homes of their own in the greater New Orleans area, Monroe, and Lafayette

#       Including five current sites, assisted 13 sites regarding interagency training

#       Developed and disseminated 15,000 copies of an interagency resource guide on adult transition

#       Developed and disseminated 10,000 copies of a family-oriented compilation of stories of adult transition in Louisiana

#       Developed and field-tested a family transition resource guide template

#       Developed and field-tested a revised transition services page and corresponding transition planning menu in collaboration with the Louisiana Department of Education

#       Developed health and medical resource guide for teenagers with disabilities and/or health care needs and their families

#       Co-sponsored two annual transition conferences

#       Co-sponsored transportation summit

#       Trained more than 2,000 people in Louisiana and nationally on home ownership

#       Developed resource booklet on understanding disabilities for Affordable Housing Professions

#       Developed Affordable Housing Resource Manual for disability professions

#       Developed A Counseling Persons With Disabilities for Home Ownership@ section of HUD Housing Counselors Manual

#       Developed five case studies, a game, and one manual for families/consumers on home ownership

#       Edited a topical journal on home ownership and developmental disabilities

#       Trained more than 5,000 people in Louisiana and nationally on person-centered planning

#       Demonstrated the use of person-centered planning to transition adults from developmental centers to their communities

#       Developed and disseminated 5000 copies of a curricula on person-centered planning

#       Published two research articles on person-centered planning processes and outcomes

#       Facilitated 13 regional and three annual statewide Family Forums, and assisted in the establishment and continuation of a statewide family organization (Louisiana United Family Forums)

#       Co-sponsored two annual Youth Leadership Forums

#       Completed a statewide analysis of case management Series-Liaison

 

Directions for Future Program Development:

#       Ongoing research on the impact of home ownership

#       Ethnographic studies of students and adults in transition

#       Self-determination curricula evaluation/research

#       Youth Leadership Forum evaluation

#       Home maintenance curricula development and training

#       Person-centered planning benefits/outcomes research

#       Training and curricula development on friendships and community connections

 

Revised November 2000