Posters
1. The Good 2 Go Transition Program: Helping Programs Promote Healthy Transitions from the Paediatric to Adult Health Care Systems -- Winner of the best poster award at the 2007 SickKids Interprofessional Practice Week
2. Consensus for Best Practices for Transition to Adult Services With a Focus on Health Care--This poster won the people’s choice award under the ‘knowledge transfer’ category for the GTA Rehab Network Best Practice Day in March 2007!
3. Although peer support is important for more than just transition, we wanted to include this poster from Bloorview Kids Rehab that discusses the development of their program o paid family facilitators and youth facilitators.
4. Growing Up Ready describes the framework used at Bloorview Kids Rehab to prepare youth with disabilities for adult life.
5. Turning Point is a program for teens and young adults with Acquired Brain Injury that has life skills classes and weekend retreats.
6. Our colleagues in Portland, Oregon have presented a poster entitled "Transition Programs: A Holistic Approach to Success" that details their program and its complex interactions within their organization, their state and the world. (Hint--enlarge this one to 100% to be able to read it easily).
7. One of the things outlined in the above poster is Camp Spirit, a hospital based camp promoting transition to adulthood in adolescents with physical challenges. In addition to providing this unique service, an evaluation was performed, with positive results.
8. MyHealth Passport, a free, easy to use online tool that creates a wallet sized card with important health information, has had its eight month anniversary, and the results of these first months (with an emphasis on transplant users) are presented in this poster.
9. A Collaborative Life Span Approach to the Transition of Adolescents with Chronic Conditions is the first poster we have received from our energetic colleagues in Calgary--More to follow, we hope. This describes their approach to developing a regional transition program.
10. Good 2 Go collaborated with a bioethicist from the Joint Centre for Bioethics to muse about Ethical Issues in Transition which is the topic of this poster presented at the Seattle Paediatric Ethics Conference, July 2009.
11. This poster about a collaboration between McMaster and SickKids on transition tools for teens with hyperlipidemia was presented at the IV World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Cairns, Australia, 2009.
12. The adult epilepsy service in Halifax has created a wonderful transition clinic, and presented a 10-step-algorithm for transitioning pediatric epilepsy patients to an adult service including results from their first cohort of patients at the American Epilepsy Society in 2009.
13. An IBD Transition Tool: Patients' and Families' Perspective describes the evaluation of newly developed Timeline Tool that promotes guidance to help children and youth with IBD to promote independence skills across the continuum.
14. Youth with Chronic Health Conditions: How can we best teach you self-management skills? This poster describes the consultation process with youth with chronic health conditions to develop a self-management program.
15. Are your patients Good 2 Go? Vocational Readiness for Youth at SickKids. This poster describes the three aspects of approaching vocational readiness at SickKids: Hospital-wide EmployABLE event, Career Clinic, and a Vocational Database.
16. Self Management 101 for Youth describes the development and testing of a self-management program specifically designed for youth with special health care needs.
17. The Development of a Transitional Timeline Resource for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and their Parents poster was presented to demonstrate the utility of a transition tool that considers a youth's developmental needs in supporting the management and care of a youth's Type 1 Diabetes.