2005 Minnesota Statutes

     125A.22 Community transition interagency committee. 

    A district, group of districts, or special education 
 cooperative, in cooperation with the county or counties in which 
 the district or cooperative is located, must establish a 
 community transition interagency committee for youth with 
 disabilities, beginning at grade 9 or age equivalent, and their 
 families.  Members of the committee must consist of 
 representatives from special education, vocational and regular 
 education, community education, postsecondary education and 
 training institutions, mental health, adults with disabilities 
 who have received transition services if such persons are 
 available, parents of youth with disabilities, local business or 
 industry, rehabilitation services, county social services, 
 health agencies, and additional public or private adult service 
 providers as appropriate.  The committee must elect a chair and 
 must meet regularly.  The committee must: 

    (1) identify current services, programs, and funding 
 sources provided within the community for secondary and 
 postsecondary aged youth with disabilities and their families; 

    (2) facilitate the development of multiagency teams to 
 address present and future transition needs of individual 
 students on their individual education plans; 

    (3) develop a community plan to include mission, goals, and 
 objectives, and an implementation plan to assure that transition 
 needs of individuals with disabilities are met; 

    (4) recommend changes or improvements in the community 
 system of transition services; 

    (5) exchange agency information such as appropriate data, 
 effectiveness studies, special projects, exemplary programs, and 
 creative funding of programs; and 

    (6) following procedures determined by the commissioner, 
 prepare a yearly summary assessing the progress of transition 
 services in the community including follow-up of individuals 
 with disabilities who were provided transition services to 
 determine postschool outcomes.  The summary must be disseminated 
 to all adult services agencies involved in the planning and to 
 the commissioner by October 1 of each year.  

    HIST: Ex1959 c 71 art 1 s 17; 1961 c 559 s 2; 1961 c 690 s 1; 
 1965 c 241 s 1-3; 1967 c 872 s 1; 1969 c 981 s 2-5; 1971 c 689 s 
 1-3; 1973 c 683 s 1,2; 1975 c 162 s 41; 1975 c 321 s 2; 1975 c 
 432 s 8-10; 1976 c 211 s 1-6; 1976 c 271 s 13-18; 1977 c 447 art 
 3 s 1-4; 1977 c 449 s 12; 1978 c 733 s 1; 1978 c 764 s 3-5; 1978 
 c 793 s 61; 1979 c 334 art 2 s 1,2; art 3 s 2,3; 1980 c 509 s 
 30; 1981 c 358 art 1 s 1; art 3 s 2-7; 1982 c 424 s 28,29,130; 
 1982 c 548 art 3 s 1-3; 1983 c 247 s 55; 1983 c 258 s 13; 1983 c 
 314 art 1 s 22; art 3 s 1; 1984 c 463 art 3 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 
 5 s 58; 1Sp1985 c 12 art 3 s 2-8; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 
 24; 1987 c 398 art 3 s 2-14; 1988 c 486 s 2-5; 1988 c 629 s 24; 
 1988 c 718 art 3 s 1; art 6 s 2; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1989 c 
 329 art 3 s 1-3; 1991 c 265 art 3 s 1,2,38; art 11 s 1; 1991 c 
 292 art 6 s 58 subd 2; 1992 c 499 art 3 s 1-7; art 11 s 1; 1993 
 c 224 art 3 s 1-9; art 14 s 3; 1994 c 483 s 1; 1994 c 647 art 3 
 s 2-8,34; 1Sp1995 c 3 art 3 s 1-3; art 16 s 13; 1996 c 412 art 2 
 s 1,2; art 3 s 1-3; 1998 c 397 art 2 s 39,164; art 11 s 3; 2004 
 c 166 s 1