Healthcare Transitions to Adulthood
Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Health Services
Family Voices of Tennessee is excited to announce a new program designed to help families transition a child from pediatric healthcare services and coverage to adult healthcare services and coverage. The program is funded through a grant from the Baptist Healing Trust for the next two years. We will develop related educational material and trainings for parents, youth, and the medical community.
The need for such assistance has become increasingly clear as many families are not ready for the change of leaving behind their pediatrician’s office where many have developed close and long-term relationships. In addition, many families have questions about how to pay for services and where to go to get the services once a child ages out of many programs. Through this new program Family Voices will work with families to help them prepare for these changes.
We want to empower and prepare families for the unique challenges that they may face during this period by beginning to plan for healthcare transitions as early as possible. This includes the emotional, educational, and financial issues that most families will encounter. These preparations could begin as early as 5 years of age for some children or not until the teen years for other children.
Although Family Voices has always promoted planning for such transitions, this new program will allow us to focus our efforts not only on families but also professionals who can impact the success of transition. We will be collaborating with several clinics and offices that serve children with special health care needs and agencies who are also promoting successful adult transitions.
We also want to help youth begin to take ownership of their personal healthcare needs. This can include learning about their health conditions, medications, and their healthcare provider options or it could mean improving how well a child communicates to a doctor.
For the moment, this is grant is specific to Middle Tennessee so the focus will be on working directly with physicians in Davidson and surrounding counties. However, we will be sharing our materials and trainings statewide and through this website.
Funding for this new program is courtesy of a grant from the Baptist Healing Trust.
Family Voices of Tennessee is excited to announce a new program designed to help families transition a child from pediatric healthcare services and coverage to adult healthcare services and coverage. The program is funded through a grant from the Baptist Healing Trust for the next two years. We will develop related educational material and trainings for parents, youth, and the medical community.
The need for such assistance has become increasingly clear as many families are not ready for the change of leaving behind their pediatrician’s office where many have developed close and long-term relationships. In addition, many families have questions about how to pay for services and where to go to get the services once a child ages out of many programs. Through this new program Family Voices will work with families to help them prepare for these changes.
We want to empower and prepare families for the unique challenges that they may face during this period by beginning to plan for healthcare transitions as early as possible. This includes the emotional, educational, and financial issues that most families will encounter. These preparations could begin as early as 5 years of age for some children or not until the teen years for other children.
Although Family Voices has always promoted planning for such transitions, this new program will allow us to focus our efforts not only on families but also professionals who can impact the success of transition. We will be collaborating with several clinics and offices that serve children with special health care needs and agencies who are also promoting successful adult transitions.
We also want to help youth begin to take ownership of their personal healthcare needs. This can include learning about their health conditions, medications, and their healthcare provider options or it could mean improving how well a child communicates to a doctor.
For the moment, this is grant is specific to Middle Tennessee so the focus will be on working directly with physicians in Davidson and surrounding counties. However, we will be sharing our materials and trainings statewide and through this website.
Funding for this new program is courtesy of a grant from the Baptist Healing Trust.
