DD Council - Training Homepage

This publication was commissioned, funded, and sponsored by the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Incorporated and produced through funding provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Developmental Disabilities.

Transition Training

This training will help families and professionals develop and implement a health care transition plan for youth and young adults with developmental disabilities.

Listed below are five training chapters that you will find very helpful in learning what you need to do for a successful transition. Each training chapter may contain several presentations, each approximately 15 minutes in length. After watching a presentation, you must close the presentation to return to the chapter homepage. Please view all presentations in the chapter before moving on to another chapter.

After you have completed the each chapter, please click "Provide Feedback" so we can improve our content for the next person who uses this web site as a resource.

	Introduction by DD Council member Stephanie Kovacs. View as Windows Media Video: Broadband (200kbps) \| Dial-up modem (36kbps)
Chapter 1:	Click here to begin "Introduction".
Chapter 2:	Click here to begin "The Consumer Perspective". In this chapter you will learn about the process of health care transition and what other families have done.
Chapter 3:	Click here to begin "Public & Private Health Care Systems". In this chapter you will learn about current transition practices in the health care and educational systems, and in health insurance.
Chapter 4:	Click here to begin "Promising Practices". In this chapter you will learn about preparing for transition, negotiating the adult health care system, and providing ongoing assistance to young adults who have a significant intellectual impairment.
Chapter 5:	Click here to begin "Developing Personal Transition Plans". In this chapter you will learn how to develop a personal health care transition plan.