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See What Changes
Understand the areas that may shift as age 18 approaches.
Know What Needs Attention
Identify the priorities that matter for your family.
Take the Next Step
Move forward with one manageable action at a time.
TRANSITION PLANNING RESOURCES
Protect Before 18
Protect Before 18 helps caregivers understand the major areas that may need attention as a child approaches adulthood. Explore practical education and planning resources for benefits, decision-making, healthcare, finances, housing, services, and everyday life.
Know what deserves your attention. Understand your options. Take one next step.
Planning Areas
Preparing for adulthood involves many parts of life. Explore the areas that may deserve your attention next.
DIRECTORY • COMING SOON
Guide 18
Guide 18 is Coming Soon
A national directory designed to help families discover transition-related professionals, organizations, and services.
Launching at Guide18.net
Finding the right professionals, organizations, and services for the transition to adulthood can take hours of searching. Guide 18 is being developed to bring transition-related resources together in one place so families can find support more easily.
A clearer way to find support for what comes after 18.
Meet Denise
Denise Sherman founded Autism Home Life to help caregivers turn the uncertainty of preparing for adulthood into a clear, practical plan. Drawing from her own experience navigating the transition to adulthood with her son, Denise creates education, planning tools, and resources that help families understand what changes around age 18 and what steps may need attention next. Her mission: help 1 million caregivers feel more prepared for what comes next.