Step 4: Raise Awareness about HCT Activities

Plan and conduct educational activities to help the members of your practice and youth, young

adults, and parents/caregivers become more aware about transitioning youth to adult care,

why it is important, how it affects your patients, and how you can work together to make

transition improvements.

For example:

• Hold learning sessions over lunch or other already scheduled times to introduce

professional recommendations and build buy-in for this work.

• Use the results from your baseline assessment of the practice’s implementation of the

Six Core Elements to demonstrate the need.

• Try quick reminders to help your practice develop knowledge and skills in a particular

area of transition. For example, some reminders could be having a list of potential adult

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• Discuss at practice team meetings, huddles, and other opportunities to teach and

reinforce HCT strategies.

• Make information and resources readily available and visible to keep practice staff

members and youth, young adults, and parents/caregivers engaged in transition work.

• Publicly display information (e.g., in the waiting room) and share resources to raise

awareness of the importance of HCT to youth, young adults, and parents/caregivers.

• Find a bright spot – a youth who has made the transition and can help inform what

worked and what were barriers.