Transition to adult healthcare

Justiz Community is an Aboriginal-owned provider of disability services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities servicing the Lower Hunter and Maclean Valley regions. Justiz services include grassroots coordination of supports, cultural supports, social groups, mentoring, and programs for businesses.

The Intellectual Disability Network works to improve the experience and delivery of healthcare for people with intellectual disability by providing clinical leadership, research and education. The wesbite includes resources, guidelines, and online events.

These are sets of cards to help people with intellectual disability talk with their supporters. They were made to help you make more of your own decisions.

A video talking about why supported decision making is important.

This fact sheet is about your right to good health care. It tells you what good health care is. It tells you what you can do if you do not get good health care.

Deciding with Support is a new toolkit of co-designed resources on supported decision-making for everyone involved in behaviour support. It aims to help everyone feel more confident supporting people with disability to make decisions about their behaviour support.

This video shows how people with intellectual disability should be supported when making decisions.

This fact sheet tells you about health care plans for chronic health problems.

This fact sheet tells you about the different health services for adults.

This raisingchildren.net.au page offers tips to help teenagers with chronic conditions or disability move or transition into adult health care.

Young people with chronic health conditions in NSW can use the Transition Care Service for practical help.

Trapeze supports young people who are transitioning from the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network to the adult health care system. Trapeze is made up of medical, nursing and allied health staff who know how the health system works.

This fact sheets tells you about the different types of health checks.

Ability Links help people acquire new skills, grow their support networks and provides opportunity

The Transition Care Network works with clinicians, young people, families and carers to improve continuity of care for young people (14 to 25 years) with chronic health conditions in NSW, as they move from paediatric to adult health services.