A Paradigm for Improving Transition Planning for Adolescents With Intellectual Developmental Disorder.

Families of children with intellectual and developmental disorder (IDD) face unique challenges while navigating the transition into adulthood, such as finding suitable housing, optimizing independence, fostering meaningful relationships, and identifying a vocation. Often, the daily struggles of managing the individual's needs overshadow essential long-term preparation. Individuals with IDD and their families need guidance to transition from an entitlement-driven system (special education) to multiple eligibility-driven systems (adult care, postsecondary education services, housing supports, etc).

Not Reinventing the Wheel: Adapting Treatment Foster Care Oregon to Public Mental Health.

Intervention adaptations expand the availability of evidence-based treatments across clinical settings and demographically different populations. These adaptations utilize systematic strategies to preserve core components of an intervention. Intervention adaptations made from one public system to another (e.