Post-High Transition Services

Post-High Services for 18-21 Year Old Students

Contact Us
2408 SW Halsey St. Building H
Troutdale, Oregon 97060
(503) 912-1073

Teacher & Case Manager: Hannah Meeks 
Teacher & Case Manager: Dionne Madigan
SPIN Program Lead: Carolyn Merrill
YTP Program Coordinator: Naomi Keinath-Bledsoe
​YTP Transition Specialist: Kathi Morris

Cornerstone
This Post-High class is a specialized program that provides services to students out of high school whose Individual Education Plan (IEP) demonstrates a need for significant career and post high school support as well as communication, socialization, and life skills development. Skills are developed with significant adult support through individualized instruction and strategies such as:

  • Use of learned functional and applied academics
  • Individualized flexible schedule
  • Community and classroom instruction
  • Career skill development, practice and support
  • Life leisure skills development and support in community recreational activities
  • Independent living skills development in adult life activities
  • Connection to adult/community service agencies
  • Accessing and navigating the community of all of Multnomah County using public transportation

Cornerstone II
This Post-High FLS class is a specialized program that provides services to students out of high school whose Individual Education Plan (IEP) demonstrates a need for significant continued support in communication, socialization, life skills, and leisure skill development. Skills are developed with significant adult support through individualized community based instruction and strategies such as:

  • Functional applied academics
  • Functional daily routines (assisting in eating, toileting and hygiene)
  • Adaptive skills to increase students’ access their environment
  • Motor skill development
  • Communication and social skill development
  • Reduced instructional pace
  • Vocational Skill development, practice and, support
  • Community routines
  • Life and leisure skills development and support
  • Support of physical and medical health care needs
  • Positive Behavior Supports - physically able to implement plans with a need for OIS physical interventions

SPIN
SPIN is a program designed to support students preparing for individual needs. A Transition Specialist works with individuals and small groups of students to provide the following model of services:

  • Offers a service consisting of individualized mentoring
  • Designed for students with disabilities who lack direction regarding their future, but once provided with the necessary tools, have the capacity for independence
  • Offers support in all aspects of transition with focus on employment, continued education, and independence
  • Provides supported guidance to students in identifying and planning post-secondary goals
  • Assists, supports, and encourages participation in community activities and connects students to agencies, i.e. Social Security and Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services(OVRS)
  • Provides pre-employment training around resume development, completing job applications, interviews skills, and more

YTP
Youth Transition Program is a partnership with Reynolds School District, the University of Oregon, the Oregon Department of Education and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide the following model of services:

  • Offers a service consisting of individualized mentoring
  • Designed for students with disabilities that create barriers to employment, but once provided with the necessary tools and supports, have the capacity for independence in the job place
  • Offers support in all aspects of transition with emphasis on gaining meaningful employment
  • Provides supported guidance to students for fulfilling their post-secondary goals
  • Assists, supports, and encourages participation in community activities and connects students to agencies, i.e. social security and Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services(OVRS)
  • Provides pre-employment training around resume development, completing job applications, interviews skills, and more