The Young Adults Transition Service (YATS) at Monash Health helps young adults with complex physical disability and medical needs to transition from paediatric to adult healthcare services.
The Young Adults Transition Service focuses on the person’s needs. We also assist in building a person’s skills and confidence to understand their health needs and develop a transition plan.
What is transition?
Transition is a planned and purposeful process that supports from paediatric to adult healthcare services.
A transition plan is developed with you, your carers and your multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
We support transition through a medical clinic, which helps you to coordinate your transfer to adult healthcare services. We provide phone reviews and allied health consultations.
When complete, your General Practitioner will be the main point of medical contact for coordinating ongoing healthcare needs.
What can the service do?
- A multidisciplinary (a team of professionals), person-centred (focuses on you) approach
- Specialist medical and allied health assessment
- Key worker support from an allied health professional to navigate the process together
- Learn to manage your healthcare needs
- Referral to medical and specialist services
- Wheelchair and seating clinic
- Support community therapists with complex assessments
- Equipment assessment and advice
- Establishing links to GPs and community-based therapists, and services
- Short-term counselling
- Support to access exercise, leisure and recreational pursuits
- Identify and support occupational needs
Who is in the team?
- Medical Specialist
- Occupational Therapist
- Physiotherapist
- Social Worker
- Rehabilitation Engineer
- Allied Health Assistant
- Neuropsychologist (consults only)
- Speech Pathologist (consults only)
- Allied health assistant
Who can use the service?
- A young adult who needs coordinated supports to transition from paediatric to adult healthcare services
- Aged 16-25 years
- Living in Victoria
- Have a diagnosis of complex physical disability and medical needs
- Requires support from medical and two or more allied health professionals
What is the cost?
Nil cost to client
How can I be referred?
Your medical doctor or allied health clinician (with a medical support letter) can refer to this service
The referral needs to include:
- Strengths and interests of the young adult
- Reason for referral
- Diagnoses
- Detailed medical and surgical history and any outstanding concerns
- Overview of current function
- Phone and email of the best contact person
- GP contact details