DDSN Post-Secondary Transition Coordinator’s Role- 4 Areas of Focus Link
1. Resources for best practices in transition education:
2. Resources available to everyone to increase outcomes during and after school:
3. Centers for Independent Living (focused on empowering individuals with disabilities - not available in all counties)
Able SC Counties served: Abbeville, Anderson, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chester, Clarendon, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, and York.
Access Ability Counties served: Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, Orangeburg and Williamsburg.
Walton Options Counties served: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton, Edgefield, Hampton, Jasper, and McCormick.
4. Planning for the future:
5. Planning for work when you receive SSI or SSDI:
Able’s Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program serves the following counties: Everyone in these counties: Abbeville, Anderson, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, Marlboro, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, and York.
Walton Options’ Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program serves the following counties: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Edgefield, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Marion, McCormick, and Williamsburg.
Vocational Rehabilitation has benefit counselors that you can request through your local VR office and here is more information on their benefits counseling:
6. How to apply for Medicaid (what is needed to use a waiver that SC DDSN manages):
7. Need help or have questions about legal protection and advocacy services for people with disabilities, Disability Rights of South Carolina is the resource: