Working Together for Student Success Massachusetts Interagency Transition

Working Together for Student Success: Massachusetts Interagency Transition Teams Workshop Part 2: How to Start and Maintain a Successful Interagency Transition Team May 26, 2021 Housekeeping: • Please mute your line when you’re not speaking • Enter your questions or comments in the chat • Today’s webinar will be recorded for posting to the project website

Two-Part Series • Part 1: What is an interagency transition team and why are they important? • Part 2: How to start and maintain a successful interagency transition team (May 26) Participants can receive a certificate of attendance if they participated in both sessions; watch for a survey link at the end of today’s session. 2

Today’s Agenda • Panel Presentations – Members of the Merrimack Valley Interagency Transition Team – Members of the Amherst Interagency Transition Team – Andrea Morris, Facilitator • Q & A with the Panels • Review of Resources & Tools – Maria Paiewonsky, ICI • Wrap up and Thank Yous – Margaret Van Gelder, DDS 3

Panel 1: Merrimack Valley • Matthew Scanlon, Haverhill Public Schools Transition Coordinator • Aisha Nakazibwe, Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor @ MRC • Mark Michel, Youth Career Representative (Pre. ETS) @ Fidelity House CRC • William Ellis, Director of Career Services Merrimack Valley/Lowell @ WOU

Panel 2: Amherst • Crystal Cartwright, Amherst Public Schools Transition Specialist • Arlene Lockenwitz, Children and Transition Service Coordinator for DDS • Donna Kushi, Program Manager from Family Empowerment/DDS Family Support Center

Resources & Tools • MA Interagency Transition Teams website: https: //mitt. employmentfirstma. org/

Thank you for attending! • Please complete the feedback survey: https: //umassboston. co 1. qualtrics. com/jfe/form/SV _2 ocsu. GVnw. Qvt. EXk • For more information see the MA Interagency Transition Teams website: https: //mitt. employmentfirstma. org/