Got Transition supports health care systems to be responsive to the concerns of youth with special health care needs.
Guardianship and Alternatives for Decision-Making Support- Got Transition Brief No. 1
This brief provides a broad outline of decision making support options, both informal and legal that may assist a young adult with an intellectual difficulties. It also provides resources to further explore this issue as well as links to organizations that have expertise in guardianship and decision-making supports.
Putting the Six Core Elements of HCT into Practice
This powerpoint provides information about practice-based health care transition improvement through quality improvement processes. It highlights implementation of the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition through a Learning Collaborative quality improvement model.
Less than half of US youth with special health care needs receive the health care transition supports and services they need, according to the 2005-06 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.
"For planned and successful health care transitions, pediatric and specialty care practices as well as adult primary care medical homes need tools and concrete ways to address barriers."
- GT Cabinet Member