Date: April 3, 2025
Start Time: 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT / 12:00 pm MDT / 11:00 am PDT
End Time: 3:30 pm EDT / 2:30 pm CDT / 1:30 pm MDT / 12:30 pm PDT
Location: Live on Zoom
1.5 CRC credits available
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About this Event
Transitioning from pediatric to adult health care is a critical step for students with disabilities, requiring thoughtful planning, person-centered approaches, and active youth and family engagement. This webinar sponsored by NTACT:C and Got Transition, will explore the essential supports and effective resources needed for health care transition, emphasizing the roles of education, vocational rehabilitation, school nurses, and external supports. Gain practical strategies to ensure this process is engaging and empowering for youth and families.
The session will feature a personal story from a family member whose daughter with complex needs is in special education and insights from a young adult professional with a disability, who will share first-hand experiences about the intersection between health and special education. Join us to learn how to foster collaboration and prepare students for a healthy, independent future.
This webinar session will be closed captioned. If you require American Sign Language Interpretation (ASL) please notify us by March 27, 2025, by sending an email to ntact-collab@charlotte.edu.
Training Objectives:
- Participants will identify critical supports and resources necessary to facilitate a smooth transition from pediatric to adult health care for students with disabilities.
- Participants will learn how to implement person-centered strategies that empower students with disabilities, and their families, to take an active role in their health care transition planning.
- Participants will explore the roles of education professionals, vocational rehabilitation staff, school nurses, and external supports in assisting with health care transition.
- Participants will develop strategies to engage youth and families effectively in the health care transition process, understanding the importance of their involvement and support throughout the journey.
Elizabeth Stout
Advocate and Public Health Professional
Elizabeth Stout is a young adult with epilepsy and diabetes who acts as an advocate for youth with disabilities. She is also a public health professional, and is part of multiple groups and projects focused on healthcare transition, with an emphasis on the transition for youth with special healthcare needs.
Karen Benson
Health and Education Program Manager
Oregon Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
Karen Benson is the Health and Education Program Manager with Oregon Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs. A former special education teacher, she now works to strengthen systems that support CYSHCN. She is the mother of 3 young adults who are working on their own health care transitions.
Lydia Dennehy
Resource Specialist and Parent Partner
Oregon Family to Family Health Information Center
Lydia Dennehy is a Resource Specialist and Parent Partner with Oregon Family to Family Health Information Center. She is the parent of a CYSHN young adult and experiences disability herself.
Michael Stoehr, M.S.
Knowledge Development and Technical Assistance Specialist
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: the Collaborative (NTACT:C)
UNC Charlotte - Cato College of Education
UNC Charlotte - Cato College of Education
Michael Stoehr M.S., is a Knowledge Development and Technical Assistance Specialist with the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: the Collaborative (NTACT:C). He has worked in the special education field for the past 39 years and has extensive experience in the areas of secondary transition, assessment, job analysis, supported and customized employment, transition communities of practice, effective transition planning, inter-agency collaboration, transition practices for students with complex support needs, family engagement, and youth leadership and self-advocacy.
Peggy McManus
President
The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Peggy McManus is the President of The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving access to comprehensive health care and insurance coverage for adolescents. Since 2013, with Dr. White, she has overseen project management for Got Transition, a program of The National Alliance. Ms. McManus has over 35 years of experience directing national, state, and private foundation projects on child and adolescent health. Ms. McManus has a master's degree in Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Samhita Ilango
Senior Research/Policy Associate
The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Samhita Ilango is a senior research/policy associate for the National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health. She is responsible for assisting with health care transition research related to national health survey analyses, state Title V agencies, and quality improvement efforts. She previously worked in autism and reproductive health research. Ms. Ilango received her master's degree in Public Health, focusing in health policy, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Shelia Harris
Sheila Harris is the mother of four children. Her youngest child was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at 5-month-old and Autism at 4 years old.
Tim Markle
Director
Wisconsin Youth Health Transition Initiative
Tim Markle is Director of the Wisconsin Youth Health Transition Initiative, funded by Wisconsin Title V and the Waisman Center at UW-Madison. He has worked at the Waisman Center for over 15 years and is father an autistic young adult son with mental health challenges and a young adult daughter with mental health challenges.