Tools for Transition

• Got Transition? is the name of the National Health Care Transition Center, located at the Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI) at the Crotched Mountain Foundation. This Center works to create health care transition policies, initiatives, and health care transitions tools for professionals, youth, and families to make sure youth and their families receive the support they need to plan for and successfully move from pediatric to adult systems of care.
• Adolescent Transition
  Part of the Maternal and Child Health Library Knowledge path, the Adolescent Transition section includes resources about health care, education, employment, and independent living for adolescents with special health care needs who are transitioning to adult services.

Youth Leadership

• Kids As Self Advocates (KASA)
  KASA is a national, grassroots project created by youth and young adults with disabilities for youth and young adults with disabilities. They know youth and young adults can make choices and advocate for themselves if they have the information and support they need.
• National Consortium on Leadership & Disability for Youth
  Research and training curricula about youth development and leadership, resources and more.

Youth Employment

• NCWD-Youth -National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability
  Information about employment and youth with disabilities. Be sure to visit the 411 on Disability Disclosure: A Workbook for Youth with Disabilities to learn the whens, hows and how much of disability disclosure.
• Job Accommodation Network
  Federal laws that protect rights of individuals with disabilities in the workplace, disability-specific work-related accommodations, resources, publications and more.

Healthcare Transition

• Healthcare Transitions
  Presentations, resources for youth and workshops (in English en Espanol) to help with the process.
• Talking with Your Doctor and Other Healthcare Professionals
  Designed to promote youth/youth adult and health provider communication.
• Transition Resource Directory
  Descriptions of federally-supported projects and centers that focus on youth transition.



• Healthcare Transition Checklist
  From Pennslyvania, but with many useful checklists to help youth with special healthcare needs and their families transition to adult healthcare systems. In English en Espanol.
• Directory of MA Physicians
  List of Massachusetts physicians who indicated their willingness to accept youth and young adults with special heatlhcare needs as patients.

Post-Secondary Education

• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
  Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful furtures.
• Going To College Information about living college life with a disability.

Disability-Specific

• National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness
  Transition planning for youth who are deaf-blind.
• Transitioning Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  This free guide, from the Autism Consortium, has information about high school, post-secondary eduational opportunities, employment, independent living skills, guardianship, housing, healthcare, recreation, and more. Read the guide on-line, or download from the Web site above.

Health Insurance and Public Benefits

• Social Security Disability Benefits
  Information and application for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits.
• Institute for Community Inclusion
  Going to Work: A Guide to Social Security Benefits and Employment for Young People with Disabilities (2011 Edition) .
• Institute for Community Inclusion
  A TRABAJAR: Una guia del Seguro Social de beneficios y empleo para jovenes con incapacidades (Edicion 2011) .
• Health Insurance for YSHCN in transition
  Health insurance options for youth and young adults in transition in Massachusetts.
• Health Insurance for YSHCN in transition-espanol
  Opciones de Seguro Medico para Adultos Jovenes con Discapacidades.