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Family To Family Health Information Centers (F2F-HIC) are established to provide information and assistance to families of children and youth with special health care needs. Idaho Parents Unlimited is the F2F-HIC for Idaho.
Take a look at Idaho Parents Unlimited's, Family to Family Health Information Center Fact Sheets:
What is Patient Centered Medical Home.doc
ACA Fact sheet
New! 2010-2011 Children with Special Health Care Needs in Idaho – Data Sheet – Family to Family Health Information and Education Center:
2010-2011 Children with Special Health Care Needs in Idaho.docx
2010-2011 Children with Special Health Care Needs in Idaho.pdf
Bright Futures Website (http://www.brightfutures.org)
Bright Futures is a national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
Launched by HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau in 1990, the Bright Futures initiative is focused at the American Academy of Pediatrics and a collaborative of other federally- and State-funded Bright Futures projects (click below for select projects).
Health and Welfare of Idaho Website (http://www.healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=160)
The Idaho Children's Special Health Program (CSHP) provides consultation, information, technical assistance and referral services for the families of children who have chronic illnesses and disabilities. CSHP works with families, providers and communities to help establish and maintain a system of information, provide referral and follow-up services.
CSHP also promotes parent-to-parent support networks to ensure that all families have access to support services and health benefits counseling, and attempts to build systems of care in collaboration with other child/family efforts to link community-based health, social services and education agencies.
Family To Family Project Purpose
Families with children and youth who have special health care needs need help with the numerous problems they encounter. The Family To Family project assists families with those problems, which include:
- Finding payment for medical care
- Obtaining help navigating public health care financial problems
- Seeking dialogue with other parents in similar situations
- Advocating for their child
- Looking for information to find community resources
- Linking to an established clearing house of information about health care issues
- Obtaining one to one assistance finding information and getting referrals for specific health problems
- Locating and attending workshops and obtaining materials about related health care issues, including information tailored to assist youth and parents in transition to adulthood
- Collaborating with Idaho's Family Voices and the national network of Family Voices, which are the technical assistance arms of F 2 F
- Gaining empowerment to make changes in established federal, state, and local governing systems
The Family To Family Health Information Center at Idaho Parents Unlimited provides these services statewide.
The Maternal and Child Health Library, located at Georgetown University, includes knowledge about caring for children and youth with special health care needs. It offers a selection of current, high-quality resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at developing systems of care that are family-centered, community-based, coordinated, and culturally competent. A separate section lists resources for families. The final part of the knowledge path presents resources that address specific aspects of care and development, such as advocacy, early intervention and education, financing services, rehabilitation, screening, and transition. This knowledge path for health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, educators, researchers, and families will be updated periodically. For more information go to http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_cshcn.html
A leader in health policy and communications, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies.http://www.kff.org/