Transition Services

Our Transition Services team will help you prepare to take your child home after a transplant. Transition Services will help you plan your child’s care at home, teach you specific skills that you will need as your child’s caregiver and provide referrals for home care, if necessary.

The transition from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to home can be a stressful one, and a time of high anxiety for parents, but Transition Services can help you and your child make this transition smoothly. “It’s like leaving the nest to make this transition from the center to home,” says Dr. Jean Sanders, the head of the pediatric bone marrow transplant program at SCCA.

Transition Services can help in the following ways: 

• By meeting with parents to discuss their child’s care at home during the first year post-transplant 
• By teaching classes for parents/caregivers on taking care of their child at home 
• By talking with your child’s pediatrician (or other referring doctor) about your child’s medical needs and follow-up care 
• By providing emotional support to parents as they prepare to assume the role of caregiver in the home setting.

Your “Parent & Caregiver Resource Manual” has detailed sections on care giving, long-term follow-up, managing your child’s medications and more. Be sure to ask if you have questions about any of the information in this manual.

Contact Transition Services at (206) 288-2125.

May 2005