Transitioning to Adult Health Care: How Students and Families Can Prepare

This session will provide an overview of healthcare transition and describe its importance as it relates to youth and youth adults with special healthcare needs and their families. We will review resources created by Got Transition including A Family Toolkit: Pediatric-To-Adult Health Care Transition and Health Care Transition Readiness Assessment for Students with an IEP as well as discuss strategies for professionals to incorporate health care into transition planning.

Presenters:

Annie Schmidt, MPH, Health Research/Policy Associate at The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health/Got Transition

Samhita Ilango, MSPH, Health Research/Policy Associate at The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health/Got Transition

Hosted by Got Transition.