VCU's Center on Transition Innovations (CTI) has released a new online course for students with disabilities!

Get Ready for Independent Living

This course is designed to prepare high school students for a successful transition to greater independence. It’s free, self-paced, and eligible for 10 CRC credits.

The course focuses on four key areas of independent living skills:

• Decision Making
• Healthy Relationships
• Transportation
• Financial Management.

Each lesson includes:⠀

• High-quality video lessons⠀
• Portfolio activities⠀
• Expanding Knowledge resources⠀
• Fascinating Facts⠀

Course objectives are to:

• Understand the decision making process and why it is important
• Demonstrate the use of a decision making model
• Discuss the importance of building healthy relationships
• Identify tips for using social media safely to build friendships
• Define financial management and why it is important
• Learn about resources for managing personal finances
• Describe what transportation skills are and why they’re important
• Identify safety tips and ways to practice transportation skills.

Check out the course page to register and access all of the resources.