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Jan 05, 2009
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Transitions Conference 3 in Toronto, Canada
Growing Up Ready: Building Skills for Living in the Adult World, will be held May 12 - 13, 2006 in Toronto, Canada. Early bird deadline is Friday, March 24, 2006. Register early to receive a reduced fee!
This is the 3rd bi-annual conference on the subject of transitioning. The theme this year is "Growing up Ready." Based on the work with children, youth and their families, we believe that planning for transitions must start early, be real and positive with shared expectations, and hope for the future. As one parent put it; "...if your child has a disability it's called transition and for everyone else it's just growing up." We believe it is Growing Up...Ready. The question is...Ready for What? For more information, go to:
http://www.bloorviewmacmillan.on.ca/services/education.htm#transition
MCH Training Products and Events Bulletin
The February edition of the bulletin is available online. To view the full newsletter, go to:
http://www.hsrnet.net/email/MCHproducts/mch_products_alert_0206.htm
Article: Access to Health Care for Young Adults With Disabling Chronic Conditions
Recently published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Callahan and Cooper discuss the results of a study designed to assess health insurance status and health care access of young adults with disabilities attributable to a chronic condition. The authors analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey from 1999 to 2002. Their main conclusion is that despite increasing attention to issues of health care transition for young adults with disabling chronic conditions, this study suggests that uninsurance is as common among these young adults as peers without disabilities and is significantly associated with health care access barriers in this population.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/content/vol160/issue2/index.dtl (may need subscription)
Callahan, S.T., & Cooper, W. O. (2006). Access to health care for young adults with disabling chronic conditions. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160, 178-182.
Hawaii Considering New Children's Health Insurance Program
The Hawaii House Health Committee on Thursday approved a bill (HB 3116) that would establish a 3-year pilot program to provide no-cost health insurance to children in families who do not qualify for the state's QUEST program and cannot afford private insurance.
Under the proposed Keiki Care Plan, a mutual benefit society would partner with the program, and the Hawaii Medical Service Association's children's health plan would be a model for the pilot program.
For more information about the Keiki Care Plan and Hawaii’s bill, please visit the Kaiser Network website:
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=35408
Coding Renovations to Make Your Practice a Medical Home
The Pennsylvania Family Practice Foundation has published an article, available on line, which discusses the issue of transitioning youth from pediatrics to adult care and discusses ways of coding (i.e., billing) for health care transition related activities. Go to:
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The Champions for Progress Newsletter if funded as part of the Leadership Development for Implementation of Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Cooperative Agreement (#U42MC00241), funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS) to the Early Intervention Research Institute at Utah State University.
The Champions for Progress Center would like to thank John Reiss of the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida for his work collecting newsitems for this Newsletter.