Providers have a key role in the transition of adolescents and young adults from pediatric to adult health care.
Health care transition GOALS for providers include:
- Improving the ability of adolescents and young adults to manage their own health care and effectively use health services
- Using an organized process in pediatric and adult health care practices to support adolescents and ensure a smooth transfer to adult-centered health care.
See below for resources to help guide patients/clients as they transition from pediatric to adult health care.
Resources to Support Patients or Clients
These are the basic components of a structured transition process. The resource link below includes customizable sample tools for each core element. Core elements are tailored to the type of practice (pediatrics, family medicine and med-peds clinicians).
- Transition and care policy/guide
- Tracking and monitoring
- Transition readiness
- Transition planning
- Transfer to care
- Transfer completion
LINK to Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition Resources from GotTransition.org
- Coding Tip Sheet (GotTransition.org)
- Medical Home Resources (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Youth Assessment (GotTransition.org)
- Parent/Caregiver Assessment (GotTransition.org)
- Sample IEP Goals (GotTransition.org)
- Readiness Assessment (GotTransition.org)
- Skills Checklist (Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center)
- Family Voices of ND - See publications in the Library tab.
Recording
GotTransition Webinars
- State of the Art in Health Care Transition, Clinical Recommendations and Evidence
- Strategies for a Smooth Transfer from Pediatric to Adult Care
- Models of HCT in Primary and Specialty Pediatric and Adult Care
Other Online Learning
- Health Care Transition Learning Collaborative (Gillette Children's)
Contact
Danielle Hoff, Assistant Unit Director, HHS Special Health Services Unit at dwhoff@nd.gov or (701) 328-2436, 711 (TTY)
Heather Kapella, Program Administrator, HHS Special Health Services Unit at hkapella@nd.gov or (701) 328-2436, 711 (TTY)
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