Transition: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist for Medical Home Teams.

This brief explains culture defines the values, beliefs, and practices surrounding when and how youth transition to adulthood, and presents a checklist to provide medical home teams with a tool to facilitate the programmatic and organizational change necessary to respond effectively to culturally defined beliefs, practices, and preferences and the inherent issues they raise in the provision of health care and related services for youth and their families. Characteristics of culturally competent organizations are described, and six core elements of health care transition are identified. The checklist is then presented and addresses guiding values and principles, policies, structures, practices, behaviors, and attitudes. 8 references.