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Annotation: This guide presents a training curriculum developed through needs assessment, pilot testing, and post implementation evaluation to raise expectations about what youth with special health care needs can achieve, build specific transition-to-adulthood related resources among participants, increase participants' knowledge about transition related resources, and promote a collaborative approach among community service providers who work with youth and families during transition. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children with special health care needs, Curricula, Professional training, Transition planning, Youth, Youth in transition programs

Annotation: This workbook, which is intended for young people with disabilities, presents information that readers can use to understand their disability, explain their disability to others, and decide whether and how to disclose their disability. The workbook is divided into eight units: (1) self-determination -- the big picture, (2) disclosure -- what is it and why is it so important?, (3) weighing the advantages and disadvantages of disclosure, (4) rights and responsibilities under law, (5) acommodations, (6) postsecondary disclosure, (7) disclosure on the job, and (8) disclosure in social and community settings. Each unit contains a general statement of purpose, useful terminology, a discussion section, and activities to allow the reader to understand and practice the ideas presented throughout the unit. The workbook also includes a glossary.

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Keywords: Adolescents with developmental disabilities, Adolescents with special health care needs, Civil rights, Consumer education materials, Decision making, Disabilities, Education, Individual responsibility, Informed consent, Legal responsibility, Work force, Workplace, Young adults, Youth

Annotation: This action plan provides a national blueprint to enhance existing systems; expand services for children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families; and coordinate services across systems. The document discusses (1) achieving family and professional partnerships, (2) early and continuous developmental and medical screening for autism, (3) access to all needed ASD health, mental health, education, and social services, (4) organization of community-based services for easy use, (5) youth transition to adult services, work, and independence, and (6) appropriate financing of care. For each of these topic areas, a goal, challenges, and recommendations are presented.

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Keywords: Children with special health care needs, Adolescent, Adults, Autism, Community based services, Education, Families, Financing, Health care systems, Health services, Mental health, Program coordination, School to work transition, Service coordination, Social services, Transition planning, Youth in transition program

Annotation: This progress report described accomplishments of a project titled Maine Works for Youth, Maine's Healthy and Ready to Work phase II project. The program focuses on adolescents and young adults with special health care needs.The report is a bullet list of project accomplishments during the past 2 years. The project is a follow-up to the phase I project, Maine Adolescent Transition Partnership. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescents, Adolescents with special health care needs, Employment programs, Maine: Transition to independent living, Reports, State programs, Transition planning, Young adults, Youth in transition programs

Annotation: This notebook is a resource on transition from adolescence to young adulthood for young adults with special health care needs and disabilities.The notebook is geared toward families, students, school personnel, community agency workers, health professionals, and other groups working with adolescents and young adults in Washington State. The notebook is organized into the following sections: (1) transition overview, (2) the student, (3) school, (4) post-secondary education, (5) work, volunteering, community participation, (6) division of vocational rehabilitation, (7) community resources, (8) recreation, (9) legal matters, (10) Division of Developmental Disabilities, (11) Supplemental Security Income, (12) health, and (13) transition stories. The notebook contains one appendix that includes information on multicultural and translated resources, acronyms and definition, health insurance terms and definitions, sample forms, information on educational resources, and a transition guide for Washington State.

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Keywords: Adolescents with special health care needs, Community participation, Developmental disabilities, Education, Health, Legislation, Recreation, School to work transition, Schools, Students, Supplemental security income, Transition to independent living, Vocational rehabilitation, Volunteers, Washington, Young adults, Youth

Annotation: State Programs for Children with Special Health Care Needs have begun to recognize and address the pervasive difficulties that face chronically ill and handicapped older adolescents and young adults as they are discharged from these programs. Difficulties include problems in finding medical and related services responsive to their needs, inadequate financial coverage of needed services, psychological distress, and disincentives for vocational training or employment. At the present time, State programs lack the information needed for planning or developing services that would assist this population in their transition to adulthood. The general goal of this study was to help repair this deficit of knowledge through a survey of 1, 000 adolescents and young adults who use these programs. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities, Adolescents, Adolescents with Special Health care Needs, Children with Special Health care Needs, Data Collection, Health Care Financing, MCH Research, Research, Vocational Training, Youth in Transition

Annotation: This publication contains the proceedings of a conference held May 1-4, 1983, which was jointly sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Public Health Social Work Program, and the Division of Maternal and Child Health, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance, Department of Health and Human Services. The conference recognized that the family is a key element in health promotion and disease prevention, and methods of enhancing families' strengths, as well as assessing patient/family functioning, were addressed. Specific topics covered were family stress, substance abuse and youth, and chronic conditions in children.

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Keywords: Children with special health care needs, Community based services, Disease prevention, Families, Family centered care, Health promotion, Substance abuse, Youth

Annotation: This report presents summaries of five research projects on improving the operation, functioning, and effectiveness of maternal and child health and for crippled children's services. The projects were: delivery and utilization of pediatric outpatient care, family planning and evaluation project, 5 years in retrospect about the neighborhood health center, the case history of a Children and Youth Project, and the reported impact of children and youth projects on hospital and medical school host agencies.

Keywords: Children, Children with special health care needs, Community health center, Family planning, Health services delivery, MCH programs, Maternal health, Pediatric care, Research, Youth services

Annotation: These proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Service and the MCH Program at the University of California School of Public Health at Berkeley discusses requirements of the state MCH plans and plans for children with special health needs (CSHN) and developmental disabilities. The federal viewpoint is discussed, followed by discussion of the potential for the future of state MCH and CSHN plans; a proposed model for data required in state-level MCH and CSHN planning; responsibility and accountability; the communicative disorders program in Alaska; the maternity and infant care project in Idaho; the Children and Youth Project experience in Hawaii; the Washington state MCH program; medical eligibility, case finding, and quality control in CSHN programs; the identity crisis facing CSHN; national planning for MCH and CSHN; issues in national health insurance; and national health insurance and the health care of mothers and children. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Alaska, Child health, Child health programs, Children and Youth Projects, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Communication disorders, Conferences, Federal legislation, Hawaii, Health insurance, Idaho, Maternal health, State MCH programs, Washington

Annotation: This publication is related to an effort supported in part by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Crippled Children Services Research Grants Program. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children and Youth Projects, Children with special health care needs, Data collection, Evaluation, Health care delivery, Models