Improving Transition for Young People Fund
The Improving Transition for Young People Fund is Together for Short Lives’ ground-breaking programme, seeking to address the cliff edge in care experienced by young adults in their transition from children’s to adult services.
What does the fund do?
Run by Together for Short Lives, the fund is supporting ten projects who are piloting new approaches to supporting seriously ill young people making the transition to adulthood. With a focus on encouraging co-ordination between services and engaging with care professionals, the fund helps to test these new approaches and smooth the process of moving to adult services, so young people can focus on what’s important to them.
Why is it so important?
Advances in medical technology mean that the number of young people with life-limiting conditions is increasing. There are now almost 13,000 18-25-year-olds living with a life- limiting condition, and this number has grown by 33% over 10 years.
Unfortunately, a lack of co-ordination between children’s and adult services, and an absence of tailored support mean that these young people often move to adult services without appropriate arrangements in place. The innovative projects backed by the fund aim to tackle this problem, ensuring young people are better supported as they move to adult services.
Who benefits?
The key beneficiaries are teenagers and young adults aged 14-25 with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition, and their families.
Funded projects
The Improving Transition for Young People Fund is supporting ten projects – two that began in late 2017 and a further eight that began in late 2018. All projects are undertaking a local evaluation that will inform an overarching national evaluation. An evaluation report of the Fund will be published in Autumn 2021. Find out more about the projects that have been supported by clicking below:
Engaging GPs – Improving Outcomes
Talking about – sex and relationships: Young people speak out
Developing positive transitions into primary care
Transition Hubs
TEEN Matters - Transition of Each and Every Need Matters
Transforming transition experiences of young people in Suffolk
Pathways Clinic
The Expert Parent Programme
Expanding Worlds
Futures
This programme has been made possible thanks to the generosity of charitable foundations committed to making change happen for those who need it most.