Resources for School Nurses
Wisconsin School Nurse Updates Compiled (HCT Articles)
Wisconsin Youth Health Transition Initiative (YHTI) has partnered with Wisconsin DPI School Nursing and Health Services to provide regular articles on Health Care Transition focused on supporting School Nurses. Articles have been compiled together through …
Conversations: School Nurses and Transition Planning (March 2023)
How can School Nurses be a part of Transition Planning? March 22, 2023 Louise Wilson, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction School Nurse Consultant, joins Tim Markle to talk about the overall role of school nurses …
School Nurse Documentation in Career and College Ready IEPs
Part one of this brief summarizes where school nurses document how a student’s health impacts their learning and education under IDEA. Part two of this School Nursing and Health Services Consultant for the Wisconsin Department …
School Nurses Info Sheet on Health Care Transition
A one-page information sheet highlighting current statistics for health care transition, strategies for school nurses to make a difference, and links to resources. Download a .pdf at HCTSchoolnursesinfosheet7.31.24
Stay A Step Ahead Brochure
A brochure summarizing the steps in healthcare transition. Available in English and Spanish. To request print copies, contact healthtransitionwi@waisman.wisc.edu.
Health care transition for children with medical complexity: Challenges and lessons learned
An article from the Journal of Pediatric Nursing published in 2021. Describes the Complex Care Program’s evaluation of its practices prior to 2019 and efforts to standardize transition guidance, planning, and documentation within the Program …
Promoting Self-advocacy for Young Adults with Chronic and Rare Conditions
An editorial published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Describes Generation Patient, a nonprofit organization created and led entirely by young adult patients. The organization focuses on empowering adolescents and …
Trainings
Trainings for Health Care Providers
Introduction to Youth Health Transition video
This recording provides an overview of the healthcare transition process. It should be viewed before participating in the Build Your Bridge or Dreaming Differently trainings.
Closing the Gap: A Basic Overview of Youth to Adult Healthcare Transition
Introduces healthcare professionals to the concept of healthcare transition with a focus on children and youth with special healthcare needs. Attendees will learn about the status of healthcare transition work in Wisconsin; including barriers, strategies, …
Closing the Gap: A Healthcare Provider’s Guide to Working with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Learn communication, motor, sensory, and behavioral strategies to improve the care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Identify environmental changes you can make in your practice setting to reduce challenging behaviors in people with …
Closing the Gap: Implementing Got Transition’s® Six Core Elements
Helps healthcare providers assess transition within their practices and plan for improvement using Got Transition’s® Six Core Elements. This training takes 20-40 minutes to complete and is tailored to meet the specific needs of the …
Closing the Gap: Guardianship and Supported Decision-Making: What Health Professionals Need to Know
This provider training describes decision-making tools available to promote autonomy for youth and young adults with special healthcare needs, with a primary focus on Supported Decision-Making. Learn about resources to assist your transition-aged patients make …
More Resources
Eight Important Tools for a successful transition to adult healthcare
The Youth Health Transition Initiative has identified 8 tools for families and youth. Careful planning using these tools will help transition go more smoothly and cause less stress for families.
Supported Decision-Making and Alternatives to Guardianship
Learn more about the options available for supporting healthcare decisions for adults with disabilities or special healthcare needs.
Healthcare Transition Stories
Hear the experiences of young adults and their families as they transitioned to adult healthcare.
Got Transition Website
Got Transition® is the federally funded national resource center on health care transition (HCT). Its aim is to improve the transition from pediatric to adult health care through the use of evidence-driven strategies for clinicians and other health care professionals; public health programs; payers and plans; youth and young adults; and parents and caregivers.
Children's Resource Centers
Wisconsin has five Children's Resource Centers (formerly Regional Centers) devoted to supporting families with children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the providers who serve them.
Resources from the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project
Resources developed and gathered by our sister project, the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project.