Transition services help youth achieve social adjustment, employment, and educational success once they leave the juvenile justice system. The ultimate goal of transition interventions is to promote successful re-integration of juveniles into the community. In order to provide appropriate educational and vocational services to adjudicated youth, it is imperative that assistance be available for service providers and youth during transition periods.
Transition usually is the most ignored component of correctional education programs.
Transition experiences and outcomes of juveniles with disabilities are often disheartening. Many juveniles released from correctional settings do not receive adequate vocational and educational training and other supports necessary to succeed in the community. Components of Effective Transition Interagency collaboration Effective transition practices are those that are shared by correctional education staff as well as by personnel from the public schools and other community-based programs such as mental health and social services that send and receive students. The quality of educational and vocational services for students is contingent upon successful interagency collaboration. This team generally includes the youth, special educators, general educators, other school personnel, family members, and community agency personnel.