Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Eastern Oregon's Ross Leavitt Employment Success Story!


Ross is an example of a successful transition from school to work. for the full story check out this Employment First Success Story link.

To read more success stories, check out the Employment First Success Story Archive .

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Aviation Theme Rocks Regional Job Club Harney County

Harney County Aviation Regional Job Club Day November 27, 2018

Harney County Students in front of Courier plane that landed from Bosie. The pilot spoke to the group and took students on a tour of his plane. Thank you Mr. Long! Also, thank you to all the people that took time in their day to speak, host and share with our students!

VIDEO HERE

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Teacher In-Service Day: Transition Track; October 12, 2018


Agendas and Hand out Links for Transition Track Sessions:

Session #1: Pre ETS: Pre-Employment Transition Services
All Materials are accessible on the tnf8 blog under Pre ETS Resources HERE

Session #2: Job Exploration for Transition Students -
Job Exploration is one of the Pre-Employment Transition Services. It is #1 on the Pre ETS Description Handout HERE.

Our Eastern Oregon Regional Job Club Resource Page; Eastern Oregon Employer Videos; Survey

Student Google Surveys that tabulate results for your class:Customized by County



Resources & Activity Links:
Job Exploration Lesson Plans
Career Search Activities - in Google Drive shared Work-Theme Folder
Career Cluster Topics to Explore - Google Drive Work Theme Folder

Self-Assessments:
CareerOneStop - Explore Careers and self-assessments;  Interest Survey
Career Clusters Self Assessment Activity
Your Free Career Test
Minnesota State Career Clusters Interest Survey
My Next move - ONet Interest Profiler


Session #3: Topics of Transition Page, IEP  - Post-secondary Goals, Course of Study, Transition Services

IEP Transition Page
Transition Services Flow Chart (aligns with transition page on an IEP)
Transition Assessment - Student Interview 
Post-secondary Goal 3 Student Case Examples

Session #4: Inter-agency Collaboration: Round Table
See your County Resource Directory for your agency partners HERE
Agency Services Flow Chart

Monday, September 10, 2018

APSE September 2018 Regional Job Club Presentation


The Power Point for the Regional Job Club presentation is linked as a pdf below for you to open and follow along or access later. You can access the RJC Handbook, Independent Living Fair materials and the Google Survey, Google Calendar tutorials we used to set up information with schools/teachers within the OSTC Regional Job Club PowerPoint from March 2018 on the TNF8 blog/website RJC tab.

Regional Job Club APSE Presentation PDF

Monday, July 16, 2018

Malheur Institute Day on Transition




Seamless Transition Ed Institute July 17, 2018

WELCOME...We are glad to have you here today!

We are excited to have some of our Oregon Transition/Technical Network Team here from ODE, ODDS & OVRS today to share and support you:


  • Heather Lindsey - Transition liaison Oregon Dept. of Education
  • Lon Thornburg - Transition Network Facilitator, Region 8
  • Nicole Perdue - Pre ETS Coordinator East/Central Oregon/ VR
  • Donna Lowry - TNF & Pre ETS Support Specialist, Region 8
  • Keith Ozols - WIOA and Youth Services Director w/ OVRS
  • Theresa Knowles - Regional Employment Specialist with ODDS

To save paper we have put the power point online below as a link:

Malheur Institute Seamless Transition Power Point Presentation (pdf)

Other Handouts that we will refer today will be  in your packets and also have digital copies available below (Not necessarily in order as they appear in the day and Powerpoint):

Seamless Transition Flow Chart
BCTN Work Evaluation
BCTN Work Self-evaluation
Work History Master (excel spreadsheet)
Bethel Checklist for VR Intake
ODDS Overview of Services
IEP Sample Page
Case Examples for Post Secondary Goals - Allison,  Alex & Rolanda
One Page Profile (FACT template)
MSW Flowchart Decision tree
MSW Self Assessment Tool

Many of our slide examples are from our Transition Handbook as well as other online resources - Transition Community Network (TCN) HERE