This handbook is designed for use by teacher educators in the preparation, implementation, and maintenance of programs on school-to-work transition skills for disadvantaged youth. It consists of five sections. Section 1 contains a listing of school-to-work transition skills (pre-employment, job search, and post-employment skills) for disadvantaged youth. Section 2 presents a description of sources from which teacher educators can obtain information relating to more than 500 exemplary programs. Section 3, in which resource materials are related to the transition skills, consists of the following three subsections: (1) a skill/material cross reference, (2) a listing of materials which can be used to teach the various skills, and (3) a publisher/skill cross reference list. Section 4 contains a comprehensive listing of general information sources of interest to teachers of the disadvantaged. A bibliography of materials used in the construction of the handbook is provided in section 5. Appendixes contain a listing of publisher addresses and a state-by-state directory of national diffusion network facilitators. (MN)