Healthcare Transition Planning for Adolescents and Young Adults with Special Needs

Presented by:
Jennifer E. Mannino, PhD, RN,
Molloy College

Cecily L. Betz, PhD, RN, FAAN
School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Jennifer A. Disabato, DNP
University of Colorado

First Friday" is a monthly brown-bag research seminar and webinar for faculty and students, featuring guest speakers on timely topics of interest. The 2020 – 2021 monthly series provides a “Year of Collaborative Studies” and presents lecture/discussions on important research being conducted by “collaborators” – i.e. – studies that our own Molloy faculty and alums are doing with outside scholars. This session features Dr. Jennifer Mannino from Molloy College and her collaborators, Dr. Cecily Betz from the University of Southern California, and Dr. Jennifer Disabato from the University of Colorado.

Molloy College faculty, Dr. Mannino, has been a collaborator with the team of Dr. Betz and Dr. Disabato on a national study that focuses on how transition planning for adolescents and young adults faces numerous challenges for healthcare professionals. When children with special needs “age-out” of pediatric services, their child-centered and emerging adult special needs are often “lost in transition.” As 90% of them enter adulthood, health care transition planning (HCTP) has emerged as a nursing practice priority. Both the pediatric and adult systems are compelled to create models of service linkages to effect uninterrupted and coordinated transfer of care for this vulnerable population.

This presentation will focus on the long-distance collaborative process undertaking a national study of significant importance for all providers including findings from their studies and how they have worked together.