The Adolescent Health Transition Project is designed to help smooth the transition from pediatric to adult health care for adolescents with special health care needs. This site is a resource for information, materials, and links for people interested in health transition issues.

Site contents include:

• Information for:
  • Teens and young adults
    • Diabetes-specific information
  • Parents and families 
    • Diabetes-specific information
  • Health care providers and educators
  • Adult health care guidelines
• Health history summary for teens
• Medical summaries
  • Portable medical summary
  • Shriners Hospital transition summary
  • Build your own care notebook
  • Transition summaries
• Transitions
  • Transition timelines
  • Transition stories
  • Early-, mid-, and late-transition letters
• Adolescent autonomy checklists
• Health insurance options for young adults with disabilities and special health care needs
• Working Together for Successful Transition: Washington State Adolescent Transition Resource Notebook
• Tips for choosing and talking with your health care provider
• Ticket-to-work: Information for Washington State teens
• Presentations:
  • Transition PowerPoint slide sets
  • Health information from the Health and Wellness Advocacy Project of the Adults and Elders Program at the Center on Human Development and Disability

The site also includes a link to three care planning forms that can help teens with special needs share important health information and help them begin managing their own care.