Team

Building the professional support and personal assistance that they will need.

Watch this video in which Mike and his parents share their story transitioning from BCCH to adult care.
Help create a team of support for your youth – it may look different at 12 than it will at 20 years of age.
Learn ways to support youth in their health care visits.
Make a ‘Planning Circle’ – put your youth in the centre – who are all the people involved in his/her care now and in the future?
Talk to other families who have built a network of support around their youth.
Build an online support network through TYZE.
Learn about the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) to create a social network to support transition.
Learn about advocacy supports in BC for special populations of youth in transition.
Who, what and when? Use the ON TRAC Transition Timeline and BC Ministry's Timeline (for youth with special needs).

By age 14 years, ensure youth visit their Family Practitioner (FP) and/or Nurse Practitioner (NP) twice a year.
Ensure the right FP/ NP is on your clinical chart and receiving letters from all Specialists.
Search online for a Family Practitioner (physician or nurse practitioner - consider gender, youth-friendliness, clinic location, office hours).
See a list of Family Practitioners in BC at bc211.ca.
Search specifically for a nurse practitioner through the College of Registered Nurses of BC.
Tips for helping your Family Practitioner help you!
Ways to change from a Pediatrician to a Family Physician.
Learn about the roles of Physicians – who to see for what?
Check out how youth rate youth-friendly care providers in this video!
Matt’s tips on choosing a youth-friendly care provider.

Youth say that planning and awareness of the adult system decreases their anxiety - watch this video to find out more.
Just TRAC it!: At 16 years of age, ask your pediatric team for names of Adult Specialist(s), save in Contacts app on phone or tablet.
With your youth, watch Shane’s artistic example of the “Doctor Switch” – then talk about it.
Find the roles of health care professionals involved in your youth’s pediatric care on the "Our Team" tab of BC Children's guide to your visit – learn what roles are available in the adult system.
Watch Courtney's story about readiness, transfer, and adjustment – what youth may experience and how to prepare.
Check directions to adult clinic(s) online — you can call for directions, or use Google Maps or TransLink.
Find an Adult Specialist by gender, location, specialty, and language.
Find a physiotherapist through the Physiotherapy Association of BC.
Learn about Medical Specialists in BC.
Ask about ways Adult Physicians communicate with their patients – do they use email, text, Skype or use telemedicine?

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