Connecticut State Department of Public Health

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Youth with Special Health Care Needs
 
 

Youth with special health care needs are neither children nor adults. Their issues and concerns are similar, but different from both. This pivotal time called youth should be a time in which the total environment supports the child in becoming an adult. The support should encourage the aspirations and expectations that lead to productive adulthood - or - if supports are absent, it can be a time of actions that ingrain doubt, confusion and lack of initiative.

 

Youth with Special Health Care Needs Connecticut Tools and Resources

 

Moving Into Adult Health Care Guides

Connecticut Kids As Self Advocates (CT-KASA) has created three information booklets on health care transition:  one for youth with or without disabilities; one for parents of youth with or without disabilities; and one for primary health care providers.  These booklets offer strategies and resources to help young adults with or disabilities, their parents, and their primary health care providers prepare for the transition to adult health care process.
 

Moving Into Adult Health Care: What Do Young Adults With And Without Disabilities Need To Know?

Moving Into Adult Health Care: What Do Parents Need To Know? 

Moving Into Adult Health Care: What Do Primary Health Care Providers Need To Know?

 

Directions: Resources for Your Child’s Care Connecticut Edition

Directions: Resources for Your Child's Care was created for parents of children and youth with special health needs. It can help you plan and coordinate care for your child. In Directions you will find:  ways to organize your child’s health information; information about caring for your child’s special needs; resources; and tips from other parents of children with special health care needs.

Directions: Resources for Your Child's Care - English

Directions: Resources for Your Child's Care - Spanish

Directions: Resources for Your Child's Care - Portuguese

 

Youth with Special Health Care Needs Connecticut Agency Resources

 

Connecticut State Department of Social Services Bureau of Rehabilitation Services (BRS) 

The Bureau of Rehabilitation Services strives to create opportunities that enable individuals with significant disabilities to work competitively and live independently. Staff works to provide individualized services, develop effective partnerships, and share sufficient information so that consumers and their families may make informed choices about the rehabilitation process and employment options.

 

Disability Rights Connecticut is a statewide non-profit organization with a mission to advocate for the human, civil and legal rights of people with disabilities in Connecticut. 

 

Youth with Special Health Care Needs National Resources

Got Transition®

Got Transition® is the national resource center on health care transition. Its aim is to improve the transition from pediatric to adult health care using evidence-driven strategies for clinicians and other health care professionals, public health programs, payers and plans, youth and young adults, parents and caregivers.

 

 
Please send questions and comments about this website to:
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program
Community, Family Health and Prevention Branch
Connecticut Public Health
410 Capitol Avenue MS#11MAT
P.O. Box 340308
Hartford, CT 06134-0308