Tools for achieving the Performance Measures
- Family Participation
- Medical Home
- Screening
- Adequate Insurance
- Community-based Systems
- Transition to Adulthood
Tools for building a system of care to achieve the Performance Measures
Champions' Partners |
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Champions has developed partnerships among a group of national centers. Each are devoted in their own way to building and implementing a system of care for CYSHCN. Collectively they provide an invaluable support to state leadership. |
ABC for Health (ABC)Founded in 1994 by public interest attorney Bobby Peterson, ABC for Health is a Madison-based nonprofit public interest law firm with a statewide service area. The agency’s mission is to provide information, advocacy tools, legal services, and expert support for Wisconsin children and families, particularly those with special health care needs, to obtain, maintain, and finance health care coverage and services. The agency’s health benefits counseling program has become a national model for training health care providers and administrators in how to assist consumers gain access to programs and benefits that they are eligible for. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)The National Center for Medical Home Initiatives for CSHCN provides support to physicians, families, and other providers caring for children with special health care needs so that they have access to a medical home. The Catalyst CenterFinancing Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Center for Child and Adolescent Health PolicyCenter for Child and Adolescent Health Policy website The MassGeneral Hospital for Children's Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, created in 1999, brought together a dedicated group of researchers interested in improving the lives of children - in particular those who are poor, minority, or chronically ill - and their families through identifying, developing and supporting effective health care policies and interventions. Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) The CAHMI was established in 1998 as a national collaboration to develop and implement a comprehensive set of consumer-centered quality measurement tools. The CAHMI provides leadership and resources for measuring and communicating information about the quality of health care for children and adolescents. The CAHMI involves consumer organizations, federal and state policymakers, health care purchasers, researchers, practitioners, and others who influence health care delivery; and quality measurement and reporting to develop, test, and deploy consumer-centered quality measures. Family VoicesFamily Voices promotes family participation and satisfaction via a network of 40,000 families and friends, a volunteer coordinator in each state, and 10 regional coordinators. Family Voices serves as a national clearinghouse for information and education about ways to assure and improve health care for children with disabilities and chronic conditions. Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW)Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW) What's health got to do with transition? Everything! HRTW provides information and connections to health and transition expertise nationwide--from those in the know, doing the work, and living it! The HRTW National Center's web site focuses on understanding systems, access to quality health care, increasing the involvement of youth, and the website also includes "HRTW Tools & Tips." Maternal and Child Health Policy Research CenterThe MCH Policy Research Center is a health policy group that provides federal and state policymakers, public health officials, and provider and family organizations with analysis of financing and service delivery issues affecting children and adolescents. National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) NCCC supports family participation and satisfaction and strives to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service-delivery systems. National Center for Financing for CSHCNThe National Center on Financing for CSHCN The National Center on Financing for CSHCN was created from a cooperative agreement between the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida. Their web site has links to various other relevant sites. These sites include institutions and organizations participating as project partners and other sites with general information about financing and reimbursement strategies. National Center for Hearing Assessment/Management (NCHAM)The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management supports early and continuous screening and works to ensure that all infants (newborns) and toddlers with hearing loss are identified as early as possible and provided with timely and appropriate audiological, educational, and medical intervention. National Newborn Screening & Genetics CenterNSGRC focuses on early and continuous screening and provides information and resources in the area of newborn screening and genetics to benefit health professionals, the public health community, consumers, and government officials. |
