Partnerships: Together for LIFE Conference
Bloorview Kids Rehab and CNIB; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bloorview Kids Rehab and the Transitions Conference Steering Committee are pleased to announce the 5th biannual conference on the subject of transitioning. The conference will be held May 31 and June 1, 2010. Bloorview Kids Rehab is an international leader in transitions for children and youth with disabilities—helping guide clients and families through the everyday experiences and skills needed to become mature and confident adults.
The conference will concentrate on the following pillars of strength:

• Partnerships—relationships between pediatric and adult service providers, challenges and successes
• Performance—research, outcomes, evidence, evaluation, getting results
• Participation—inclusion, recreation and leisure, vocation, education, medical and housing

Who is the conference for?
The conference is open to health-care professionals, community service providers, educators, researchers, caregivers, families and youth to participate.

What will be offered?
There will be a number of presentations from leaders in the field of transition. In addition, a Youth as Leaders forum will be offered to address the hottest issues. 

For more information contactKimberlea Jones-Galley, Transitions Conference Chairperson, at 800/363-2440, ext 3645

Call for Papers: Special issue on Youth Health Care Transition
International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health
Due April 1, 2010

A call for papers dedicated to the subject of health care transition for youth and young adults is now available!  These papers will be published in a 2010 issue of the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health. Papers are welcomed from a wide range of professional perspectives and clinical areas. The papers should address some aspect of the process of transition from child-centered health or habilitative systems to adult-centered health or habilitative systems. Of particularly interest is translational work evaluating the transition process, testing innovative programs to support transition, or assessing transition outcomes for different populations of youth and young adults. The articles may focus on the transition experience of populations defined by a particular condition or across conditions. Other populations of interest are youth with developmental disabilities, in the foster care or in the juvenile justice system.

Young investigators from different countries are encouraged to describe the current state of health care transition experiences around the world.

Special issue editors/guest editors for this issue will be David Wood, University of Florida; John Reiss, University of Florida; Maria Ferris, University of North Carolina and Linda Edwards, University of Florida.

Articles should be submitted to Dr Wood as email attachment (Rtx or doc file). The articles should comply with the requirements of the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health (Uniform Guidelines for Biomedical Journals-Vancouver style). The International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health is a peer-reviewed journal published by Nova Science (New York) aimed at the scientific community interested in the broad area of child health, adolescent health and human development.