20th Annual Chronic Illness and Disability Conference: Transition from Pediatric to Adult-based Care

Thursday, October 24, 2019- Friday, October 25, 2019
Location: Online Broadcast

Each year, AUCD supports the live broadcast of Baylor College of Medicine's Chronic Illness and Disability Conference: Transition from Pediatric to Adult-Based Care. This is a unique and low-cost professional development and learning opportunity for faculty, staff, and trainees from LENDs, DBPs, UCEDDs, and IDDRCs. It can also be a great way to engage community partners, including leaders from self-advocacy and family organizations. CART captioning will be provided for all broadcast sessions.

Registration deadline: October 16, 2019

Major topics to be covered:

• The current state of health care transition
• Legal issues in the transition from pediatric to adult-based care
• Policies that promote employment outcomes for young adults with disabilities
• Transition program evaluation
• Successful models of pediatric complex care into adulthood
• The development of standardized approaches to transition across services

Contributions from AUCD network leaders include:

• "Nutritional Issues During Transition" keynote from Dr. Lee Shelly Wallace, Chief of Nutrition at the Boling Center (TN) UCEDD/LEND - Thursday 10/24 at 3:15pm CT
•  "Siblings' Perspective on Transition" panel with Miranda Banks, recent former LoneStar (TX) LEND trainee - Friday 10/25 at 10:50am

Benefits of participating as a broadcast site:

• Low-cost access one of the nation's most reputable transition-focused conferences that is packed with content from a diverse cadre of national experts.
• The link you receive to the live broadcast can be used to host an in-person viewing event with faculty, trainees, community partners, etc.  It's a great way to encourage dialogue about what can be done to advance existing transition initiatives or start new ones!
• You can also share the broadcast link with individuals affiliated with your center/program so they can join from more convenient locations.

To register your program/center as a broadcast site:

• Complete and send the registration form and $150 payment  to [email protected].
• Note that you will need to identify a "site coordinator" to report attendance for each day and a "technical coordinator" who can work with the organizers to resolve any streaming issues.

The conference broadcast and live CART transcription is supported by AUCD through a cooperative agreement (#UA5MC11068) with the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau.  Please contact Ben Kaufman at AUCD (240-821-9461 or [email protected]) with any questions.