Links
- Transition Information Network
A UK website on Transition, featuring quarterly Getting A Life newsletter (available to download) for everyone working with and for disabled young people in transition to adulthood/
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Transition: Getting it Right For Young People (PDF 300 KB)
A highly commended document with guidelines on Transition has recently been published by the UK Department of Health. DVD follows below. - Good 2 Go Transition Program, Toronto Sickkids, Canada
An innovative program features 'Transition Interventions Menu' to assist young people with transition. MyHealth Passport accessible and many other resources available. - NSW Department of Health: GMCT Transition care
- Better Health Channel
Health and medical information, quality assured by Victorian Government. Includes a collection of disability related fact sheets. - Expert Patients online Developing skills for self managing a chronic illness.
- D.O.O.R 2 Adulthood
Canadian resource on transition. Includes a collection of transition-related personal stories shared by Canadian young people on everything from love to independence and challenges of adulthood. - References (PDF)
A list of references to journal articles and websites related to transition. References cover the following categories: brain injury, cardiac, cystic fibrosis, diabetes/other endocrine, epilepsy/complex neurology, gastroenterology, haematology, HIV/AIDS, inborn errors of metabolism, intellectual disability, renal, rheumatology, spina bifida and spinal. Thanks to Lynne Brodie and her Transition Team in NSW for her generosity with this list of references. - What's Health got to do with Transition? (PDF)
Extensive yet user friendly American resource exploring 10 steps to successful Transition. Plenty of guidelines and practical tips for both clinician and patient. -
Work Welfare Wills
New resource available for people whose illness affects their ability to work. Work, welfare, wills is a plain English guide to legal issues around health and life changes. It provides people whose illness affects their ability to work with up to date information about Centrelink entitlements, health privacy, powers of attorney, superannuation, insurance and wills. Read this information before you make important life-changing decisions. -
Creation of Young Adult Complex Disabilities Clinics in Victoria
June 2005 report written with Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia and The Royal Children's Hospital Transition Project Coordinator.