Topic

Organization

Speaker

Room 1

Overview of the Office of Extended and Accelerated Learning Team- What are 

Transition Services? Who is a special education Coordinator?

How to work with the CCS Parent Mentor?

Columbus City Schools

Tina Wallace, Parent Mentor 

Melissa Shumaker, Special Education Supervisor

Maria Angel, Transition Coordinator

Room 2

Learn about CDE's Core Services offerings and the Three Basic Charting the LifeCourse Tools. These free tools can help students/parents be empowered as they create a plan towards a good life beginning with their IEP.

The Center for Disability Empowerment 

Deb Peterman, Transition Coordinator/Community Connector/Charting the LifeCourse Ambassador

Room 3

Learn about  vocational planning and employment services for college students

Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD)- College2Career

Special Cobb-Magyidu, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

Topic

Organization

Speaker

Room 1 

Learn how to...

• Reduce anxiety about transitioning from elementary to middle school and from middle to high school.
• Engage socially with their new school community

Columbus City Schools

Room 2 

Learn how the Empowered YOUth Group meets monthly and provides opportunities for social interaction, friendship building, fun activities and a chance to learn self advocacy tools

The Center for Disability Empowerment 

Maddy Randolph, Youth Transition Coordinator

Room 3 

Learn about vocational planning and employment services for high school students

Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD)

Renee Buchele, MSW LSW, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

Topic

Organization

Speaker

Room 2

Benefits, resources, parent information in regards to their rights when the child turns 18. 

Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities (FCBDD)

Anne Russell, Service Coordination and Community Engagement Supervisor

Room 3