Youth & Young Adults

[copied from Got Transition, need to put in our own words]

During childhood, your parents and caregivers usually help with your health and health care needs—they call for appointments, fill out forms, and keep track of medications. As you get older, managing those needs becomes your own responsibility. Achieving this independence requires an organized transition process to gain independent health care skills, prepare for an adult model of care, and transfer to new clinicians.

See below for tools, resources, and trainings to help guide your transition to adult-centered health care.

Information & Tools

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Trainings

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.
Build Your Bridge – Moving from Child to Adult Health Care
This is a free presentation and conversation to help guide families through the transition from child-centered to adult health care systems. Youth and families are often overwhelmed and under-prepared for the transition to adult health care. …

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.

Regional Centers for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

Wisconsin has five Regional Centers devoted to supporting families with children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the providers who serve them. Each center has specialists. They offer free and private services and can help you: connect to community resources; find services; and get answers.

Resources from the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project

Resources developed and gathered by our sister project, the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project.