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What is Health Care Transition?
Transition is a patient-centered, lifelong process. It helps
youth with special health care needs and their families prepare for the move
from childhood to adulthood. Youth and their families can work in partnership
with health care providers. This helps them live as
independently as possible as adults.
While transition is unique for each person, the American
Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians and American
College of Physicians recommend transition planning begins by age 12.
Texas Transition Toolkit (T3)
The Texas Transition Toolkit is an online tool. It helps guide patients with special health care needs from pediatric health care to adult health care. The website includes a searchable database of:
- Peer-reviewed articles on health care transition for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN);
- Tools used by different clinics and programs to facilitate health care transition for CYSHCN; and
- Tools for developing your own health care transition program for CYSHCN. This tool was developed by Texas A&M University School of Public Health.
Texas A&M University
School of Public Health developed this tool.
TexasYouth2Adult Transition Tool
Texas Youth2Adult is an online tool. It helps families who have children with special health care needs or other disabilities successfully move from childhood to adulthood. Families can make personalized accounts; find medical, educational, social, financial, and employment resources; and much more. BridgingApps, a program of Easter Seals Greater Houston, developed this tool.
Got Transition
Got Transition resources include the Six Core Elements of Health
Care Transition. It defines the basic components of health care transition
support for providers. These include:
- Establishing a transition policy;
- Tracking progress;
- Administering transition readiness assessments;
- Planning for
adult care;
- Transferring care; and
- Integrating into an adult practice.
For Providers: The Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition
Got Transition also has transition planning steps for
youth, parents, and educators. The steps can help with a smooth transition to adult
health care. Their website includes an interactive set of
frequently asked questions with answers provided by experienced youth, young
adults, and parents.
For Youth and Families: Got Transition Health Care Transition
Resources
Transition
Brochures
We publish
brochures on the importance of planning
for the transition to adulthood. Please use our online order form to order brochures.
Family Resources
Provider Resources
Free Continuing Education
(CE) Courses
Texas Health Steps’ online program offers free CE courses for primary care providers
and other health professionals. These courses offer updated clinical,
regulatory, and best practice guidelines for:
- Preventative health;
- Oral health;
- Mental health; and
- Case management topics, including medical home.
More Transition Resources
- Navigate Life Texas: Resources for
families on various topics including:
- Health care transition;
- Education;
- Career;
- Housing;
- Legal options; and
- Independent living.
- Self-Care Resources: Got Transition resources for youth, young adults, and parents.
- Pathways to Adulthood: A program to
families envision a good life for their children with disabilities. It
provides support, information, and tools for carrying out this vision.
External links are informational and do not have the endorsement of
the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Please email TitleV@dshs.texas.gov or CSHCNSDG@dshs.texas.gov for more information about Children with Special Health Care Needs, Title
V Maternal and Child Health, or maternal and child health
in Texas, or call 512-776-7373.