Tools to Establish Your Multi-Agency Team
Ohio Employment First’s Agency Navigation Tool
This tool reviews the various agencies in Ohio that can support transition age youth preparing for adulthood. There is information about eligibility, services, and links to webpages for more information. There is space for you to insert your local contacts for each agency as well. This can help identify those agency professionals working with your students. At the end of the document, there is a helpful tool for families and professionals to prepare for intake meetings with these various agencies. It includes a set of commonly asked questions so the youth and their family can have information readily available.
Potential Team Member Checklist
Our set of questions noted above turned into a handy, dandy checklist for you to download, print, and use as a discussion tool with the student and their family.
Once the team has identified those various multi-agency team members who could share valuable transition assessment data, complete the team roster so everyone can be sure to include their information now and potentially return to them in the future for updates.
Charting the LifeCourse (CtLC) Tools
CtLC offers many tools to help youth, families, and their teams discuss adult life goals. Several tools that help youth identify people who support them are the Integrated Support Star Tool, Reciprocal Roles Tool, and Mapping Relationships Tool. All of these tools can help youth and families identify people who support the youth and may have valuable transition assessment data to contribute.
Navigating Agency Support Tool
Deeper dive into understanding the roles and responsibilities of our Ohio partner agencies.
OEC’s Secondary Transition Modules: Interagency Collaboration Webinar
Research shows students connected with 3 or more agencies before graduation have better post-school outcomes. OEC’s short webinar on Interagency Collaboration will give you more details on how and why we should work together as multi-agency teams.
