The resources listed below relate to a variety of transition topics.
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Getting Started
Got Transition: Youth & Families
Got Transition is a national organization focused on youth health transition. Many resources for youth and families are available on their website.
Cards for families that will be distributed by health practitioner.
Goal Cards for Families – Spanish
Cards for families that will be distributed by health practitioner. [Spanish]
Center for Young Women’s Health and Young Men’s Health
Information for young adults on a variety of health topics, from Boston Children’s Hospital.
Links to a wealth of teen health resources
Information for teens on smoking, and resources for quitting.
Legal & Procedural
- WI Board for People with Developmental Disabilities Supported Decision-Making and Guardianship Alternatives
- Family Voices Supported Decision-Making
- The Arc WI Learn about Supported Decision-Making in WI
- Got Transition Fact Sheet: Guardianship and Alternatives for Decision-Making Support
- Advance Directives Forms from the State of Wisconsin for Living Will and Powers of Attorney
- The Arc WI Pooled Special Needs Trust Programs for People with Disabilities
- The Guardianship Support Center
Health Insurance
Wisconsin
- ABC for Health
- Regional Centers for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Well Badger Resource Center
National
- Social Security Administration: Benefits for Children with Disabilities
- Healthcare.gov
- The Affordable Care Act: What Your Family Needs to Know (from healthychildren.org)
Public Benefits
- Adult Disability Starter Kit
- Wisconsin Supplementary Security Income
- Wisconsin Medicaid
- Wisconsin Chronic Disease Program (coverage for adults with certain chronic diseases)
- Medicaid Purchase Plan (MAPP)
- Children’s Long Term Support (CLTS) Waivers–Transition Planning
- Wisconsin Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs)
- Disability Rights WI Public Benefits
- Questions about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid?
- Disability Rights Wisconsin Family Care and IRIS Ombudsman Program Publications
- Family Care
Reproductive Health
- Every Woman Wisconsin
- Talking with Teens-Office of Adolescent Health (US Dept of Health and Human Services)
- Kids Health
- The Healthy Bodies Toolkit (booklets and resources for parents, to help them guide their teens with disabilities through puberty)
- Center for Young Women’s Health (includes reproductive health information and topics)
- Young Men’s Health (includes reproductive health information and topics)