When young people feel empowered as partners in their own decisions they are more likely to have a positive transition experience.
As you get older, YOU will begin to make choices that will affect your health. Here at Got Transition we hope to support you to make those choices carefully. We want to provide you with information, tools, connections to other youth, and also people who work in the health care systems - so that they will understand the things you are scared or worried about.
It is the hope of the team at Got Transition that when you feel supported, involved and empowered in your own health care, you will be more likely to have a positive transition experience!
There are lots of things that Got Transition is doing to make sure you are interested and maybe even exciting about health care transition!
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