To promote effective transition services through community collaboration for youth that will prepare them for adult life.

Our Vision:

Youth with disabilities will have opportunities for full participation in the community.

Transition is :

• Planning for Housing
• Planning for Employment
• Planning for Transportation
• Planning for Recreation/Leisure
• Planning for Post Secondary Education

Who Are CTIC Members?

• County Social Services Supervisors
  Warren Chaffee - Child and Family Services
  Colleen Fodness - Developmental Disabilities
  Michael Corman - Adult Service
• Directors of Special Education
  Stephanie Corby - ISD 191
  Tom Schoepft - ISD 197
• Parents
  Angela Kimmel
  Barb Ziemke
• Consumers
  Eric Fox
  Suzann Demarios
• Rehabilitation Services Manager
  Connie Giles
• Consumer Education Coordinator
  Derek Appleyard - River Valley Project Explore
• Postsecondary Education Coordinator
  Linda Dehaven - Employment and Training Center/DCTC
• Adult Service Provider Supervisor
  Tom Pederson - Goodwill Easter Seals
• Advocacy Agency
  Scott Schifsky - ARC Great Rivers

What are CTIC's Responsibilities?

• Identify current services, programs and funding sources provided within the community for secondary and post-secondary aged youth with disabilities and their families.
• Facilitate the development of multi-agency teams to address present and future transition needs of individual students on their individual education plans.
• Develop a community plan to include mission, goals and objectives and an implementation plan to assure that transition needs of youth with disabilities are met.
• Recommend changes or improvements in the community system of transitions services.
• Exchange agency information such as appropriate data, effectiveness studies, special projects, exemplary programs, and creative funding of programs.
• Prepare a yearly summary assessing the progress of transition services in the community and disseminate it to all adult service agencies involved in the planning and to the Commissioner of Education by September 1st of each year.