This training guide presents a model for optimum delivery of the primary duties, tasks, and steps required in the comprehensive case management of adolescents with chronic disease. Using a team approach to coordinated health care, the guide involves the patient and family as key members of the care team along with the physician, nurse, dietitian, psychologist, social worker, and exercise physiologists. The guide offers training to provide medical, educational, and psychosocial support to help adolescents achieve optimal health and successful transitions to adult care. Selected by a team of pediatric endocrinologists in a Develop A CurriculUM (DACUM) workshop, the major duties focus on diabetes, but the resulting profile provides a general model for chronic illness. Results from a task verification survey instrument sent to 100 randomly selected members of the American Diabetes Association indicate the professionals' perceived importance of tasks presented relative to training outcomes. Tasks teach how to: (1) maintain contact; (2) provide individualized care; (3) provide education; (4) improve patient's health; (5) ensure appropriate equipment; (6) provide psychological support; (7) address economic and social needs; (8) foster community awareness; (9) maintain professionalism; and (10) keep patient records. Each task is subdivided into competencies. For each competency, performance objectives, person primarily responsible, and steps to achieve the objective are given. Nine references and a separate competency profile are included. (NLA)