Marketing to Increase Referrals
1. Provide ongoing information about the Transition Consultation service to Services Coordinators to increase referrals. Provide them with more information on the benefits of this service and the importance of early planning.
2. Periodically, conduct a survey of A & D Waiver Services Coordinators serving youth of the target age range to find out if they have discussed this service with the youth and families they are serving and what the responses have been. When this was done by HHS in February 2007, the number of referrals seemed to really increase.
3. Consider broadening the future planned scope of the clinic to include young adults on Medically Handicapped Children’s Program.
Continue Physician Training
4. Consider continuation and expansion of the physician’s education component to build the capacity of physicians to serve youth with special health care needs in the future.
5. The Physician Notebook is being converted to DVD and a dissemination plan is being developed.
Evaluate Effectiveness of Pilot Second Visit
6. Identify funding to continue transition consultation service to provide an opportunity to further implement the second phase of the consultations and evaluate its effectiveness.
Dissemination of Resource Materials for Youth and Families
7. Consider placing the youth and family materials on transition on a website and/or DVD per recommendation of the National consultant.