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The Transition Worksheet for Youth (Added 9-7-2005)
can be used to help you identify what you and your child have considered or planned for their life as an adult. It can be used to help you prepare for all aspects of independent living including transportation, employment, financial resources, medical care and many others. http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/forms/psu/0596B.pdf

The Transition Worksheet for Youth (Added 9-7-2005)
can be used to assist youth (adolescents and teens) with planning for their own future. http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/forms/psu/0596A.pdf

The Health Care Checklist (Added 9-7-2005)
can be used to assist adolescents as they move toward adulthood in assuming responsibility for their health care. Assuming responsibility for one's own health care, as developmentally able, is part of growing up, becoming independent from one's family, and finding a place in the adult community. http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/forms/psu/4202.pdf

Questions to Ask Potential Adult Care Physicians (Added 9-7-2005)
can be used as an interview sheet for adolescents and their families as they undertake the transfer of medical care from the pediatrician to an adult health care provider. This interview sheet provides a list of pertinent questions to ask physicians when selecting adult health care providers to medically manage their special health care help. http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/forms/psu/4206.pdf

Bridging the Gap Between Pediatric an Adult Services (Added 9-7-2005)
is a guide created for youth and their families who are beginning the process of transitioning from pediatric to adult health care providers. This resource is a component of the Coordinated Care Record and includes topics on guardianship, adult medical services, Medicaid, SSI and adult work services. http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/forms/ccr/CCR60.PDF

Outreach Toolkit for Medicare Drug Coverage Now Available. (Added 9-7-2005)
CMS has developed an Outreach Toolkit designed to equip community organizations with the materials needed to provide information and assistance to their clients on the Medicare prescription drug coverage. The toolkit - www.cms.hhs.gov/partnerships/tools/materials/medicaretraining/MPDCoutreachkit.asp   is developed with basic, straightforward information that can be easily conveyed to beneficiaries.
www.cms.hhs.gov/partnerships/tools/materials/medicaretraining/pdctoolkit/download.asp

New Heath Clearinghouse Web Site (Added 9-7-2005)
The HEATH Resource Center's National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities has recently renovated their Web site.  The new site has a more accessible design and features HEATH brochures, resource papers, fact sheets, and newsletters.  Their resource directory has also been updated into a searchable database. 
To explore this new Web site, visit: http://www.heath.gwu.edu/ .

Resource Guide – Role of Medicare and Medicaid
The Kaiser Family Foundation today released new guides, prepared by Bob Williams and Henry Claypool of Advancing Independence and Jeff Crowley of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, that explain the role of Medicare and Medicaid for roughly 20 million children, adults and seniors with disabilities.

These guides offer a basic introduction to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including answers to questions such as:

• How do people with disabilities apply for coverage under Medicare or Medicaid?
• What is Medicare's policy for covering durable medical equipment?
• Where can people with disabilities turn if they need help in applying for Medicaid?
• How do people with disabilities appeal Medicare coverage decisions?
• Can a person with a disability who has Medicare and/or Medicaid be employed and still keep their coverage?

The guides are available in PDF and HTML formats at: http://www.kff.org/medicare/med020705pkg.cfm