Tools for Multi Agency Team Transition Planning

One of the most frequently identified barriers to teaming and collaboration is communication! Agency words and terms can lead to misunderstanding, limit discussions, and prevent collaboration. Families, youth, educators and agency partners can become familiar with terms frequently used across agency partners through the use of the Vocabulary Crosswalk reference tool.

Download the Transition Vocabulary Crosswalk

During the transition years, schools and agencies have overlapping responsibility for interacting with youth. This Guide lays out a 5-step process for planning and conducting Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment (AATA) and includes the Backwards Planning template. This Guide is designed to provide details useful for teams new to multi agency planning and/or when a youth has complex or intensive needs. This document is downloadable and fillable.

Visit the online Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment Planning Tool

Download the Planning for Transition Assessment: A Guide for Multi Agency Teams

Whether you are new to the concept, a seasoned professional, or somewhere in between, the following guides and tools will help you along your journey of multi-agency transition planning, person centered thinking, and implementing backwards planning into your process. These tools can be used separately or together.

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Want to learn more about using the Backwards Planning Process with a team? This guide will provide a 5-step process that leads to the development of a person-centered backwards plan. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the process and provide examples in developing a comprehensive plan for youth to transition from school to adult life.

Download the Multi Agency Transition Planning: Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Guide

Watch Take 5: Using Backwards Planning in the Transition Process to learn more

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Ready to try it on your own? The Multi-Agency Transition Planning: Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Template is the fillable companion document to the Guide. Use the guide to learn the process. Use the Template to record information when planning with the youth and family.

Download the Multi Agency Transition Planning: Person Centered Thinking and Backwards Planning Template

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Are you trying to facilitate your first Backwards Planning meeting and don’t know where to start? The Facilitators Guide to Backwards Planning: Start Where You Want to End provides a narrative that expands on each step of the Backwards Planning process and ‘tells the story’of a case study of a youth/family as they participate with a team in the process.

Download the Facilitator’s Guide for Backwards Planning: Start Where You Want to “End”

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Still have questions on what a Multi-Agency Team Transition Meeting is? This fact sheet will address frequently asked questions about Multi Agency Transition Planning Meetings. This can also serve as an invitation to new members of a Multi-Agency Transition team. At the bottom you will find fillable space to invite members to an informal meeting.

Download the Fact Sheet: What is a Multi-Agency Team Transition Planning Meeting?

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Need more examples? We have created step-by-step guides with examples to help you create a backwards plan that is comprehensive.

Download the Using the Backwards Planning Template: Step-By-Step Directions

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Just looking for a quick refresher on how to fill out the backwards planning tool? The Steps to Backwards Planning – Illustrated guide illustrates how to fill out a Backwards Planning Template using visuals and quick reminders as well as an example of the final product.

Downloaded the Steps to Backwards Planning - Illustrated

Ready to get started? We have created fillable Backwards Planning templates in two different sizes.

Download the Letter size: 8 1/2” x 11”

Download the Ledger/Tabloid size: 11” x 17”

Watch Gabby, a recent high school graduate, and her transition team discuss their work together as a multi-agency transition planning team. This team worked together to support Gabby to be ready to continue on her journey to realize her adult life goals.