This is not a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO).

This topic encourages applications aimed at linking health care transition (HCT) practices to improved health and well-being outcomes for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). Areas of highest priority for this topic are:

1. Methods and Measures: Development and validation of outcome measures applicable across conditions and developmental stages. Study designs should include a comparison group to provide stronger support for potential causal inference.
2. Research and Practice: Use of community-engaged research methods and the integration of perspectives of people with lived experiences (PWLE). Proposals that capture both commonalities and differences across a range of diseases and conditions, youth and family backgrounds, socioenvironmental contexts, clinical care settings, data types, and payment/reimbursement systems are of particular interest.

Participating Institutes and Centers include NIDDK and NICHD.

Expires August 29, 2027.