2026 Interagency Core Team Event: The Power of Firsts
Join transition professionals in VT for a day of learning, collaboration, and practical strategies centered around The Power of Firsts.
The Power of Firsts
Every young person’s future is shaped by a series of “firsts.” Their first opportunity, first job, first advocate, first success, and sometimes their first experience with assumptions that influence what others believe they can achieve.
Join transition professionals from across Vermont for a day of professional development, connection, and practical learning centered around The Power of Firsts. Through lived experiences, youth perspectives, interactive sessions, and cross-system expertise, we’ll explore how our first impressions, expectations, and actions can open, or unintentionally limit opportunities for youth with disabilities.
Throughout the day, workshops will move beyond information-sharing to focus on what we can do with what we learn. Explore how communities are creating first college experiences, how employer partnerships can open doors, how we can recognize the skills youth already have, and how stronger collaboration, family partnerships, transition planning, and self-advocacy can create meaningful opportunities.
But this day isn’t about adding another item to an already-full to-do list. It’s about stepping back, connecting with others, learning from what’s already working, and finding practical ways to build on the work you’re already doing.
Whether you support youth through education, employment, healthcare, human services, or community programs, you’ll leave with new connections, practical tools, fresh perspective, and a renewed sense of possibility, along with one first step you can take to help create a meaningful opportunity for a young person.
Come ready to learn. Come ready to connect. Leave ready to take one step forward.
Lunch provided, coffee and water available throughout the day.
