The platform · For families and students

Everything in one place

NXTSteps complements schools and existing programs. It doesn’t replace official records or IEP procedures; it helps everyone work together.

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NXTSteps at the center of a student’s support network: education, family, caregivers and nonprofits, and professionals, all working from one plan.

Platform features

Personalized student dashboard
- Goals and interests
- Upcoming appointments
- Career opportunities
- Milestones and achievements
Support network management
- See every support contact
- Clarify responsibilities
- Manage referrals
- Coordinated communication between camp, extracurriculars, teachers, parents and more
Parent & educator collaboration
- Shared planning checklists
- Reminders and task assignments
- Progress updates
- Approved communication channels
IEP-friendly planning
- Track transition goals alongside the IEP
- Keep everyone clear on who does what
- IEP review reminders and a private document locker (coming soon)
- Works with the IEP; never replaces it
NXTSteps Helper (AI)
- Ask anything about planning ahead, any time
- Next steps for the student's age and your state
- Questions to bring to IEP and transition meetings
- Private to you; never sees documents or records
Community resource directory
- Search by location and interests
- Filter by age and services
- Organization profiles
- Clear referral processes
Career exploration & employers
- Workshops and workplace tours
- Mentorship and job shadowing
- Internships
- Supported and entry-level roles
Personalized transition planning
- Individual roadmaps
- Built on goals and interests
- Flexible stages, ages 10 through 20 and beyond
- Grows with the student
See it for yourself
We’ll walk you through a plan on a short call, and answer your questions.
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A student’s plan holds personal information. We treat it that way.

Your family decides who's in
People join a student's team only by an invitation from the family, sent to their own email address. Each role sees only what it needs, and the family can remove anyone at any time.
Kept separate and private
Each family's information is walled off from every other family's in the database itself, and sign-in supports two-step verification.
Employers never browse students
Employers don't see student profiles or documents. Nothing about a student goes to an employer unless the family agrees and a professional on the team reviews it first.
Respectful by design
We don't ask for diagnoses, we don't use AI on student documents, and every change to a plan is recorded, so the team can always see who did what.

Book a short walkthrough with us, or see what it costs for families, schools and organizations.