§ 325.3 - How must States use funds under this program?

Agencies that receive grants under this program shall use grant funds to—

(a) Increase the availability, access, and quality of transition assistance through the development and improvement of policies, procedures, systems, and other mechanisms for youth with disabilities and their families as those youth prepare for and enter adult life;

(b) Improve the ability of professionals, parents, and advocates to work with those youth in ways that promote the understanding of and the capability to successfully make the transition from student to adult;

(c) Improve working relationships among education personnel, both within LEAs and in postsecondary training programs, relevant State agencies, the private sector (especially employers), rehabilitation personnel, local and State employment agencies, local Private Industry Councils authorized by the Job Training Partnership Act, and families of students with disabilities and their advocates to identify and achieve consensus on the general nature and specific application of transition services to meet the needs of those youth;

(d) Create an incentive for accessing and using the expertise and resources of programs, projects, and activities related to transition funded under this program and with other sources;

(e) Create incentives for the implementation of lasting State-wide system changes in the transition of students with disabilities to postsecondary training, education, and employment; and

(f) Assist the State education agency in implementing the requirement in section 602(a)(20)(D) of the Act that the student's individualized education program include a statement of needed transition services for students, beginning no later than age 16 and annually thereafter (and, if determined appropriate for the individual, beginning at age 14), including, if appropriate, a statement of the interagency responsibilities or linkages, (or both) before the student leaves the school setting.