How Can We Help You?

At the National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Health Care Needs, three types of technical assistance are available:

General Technical Assistance
Technical assistance is offered to anyone who is involved in ensuring children with special health care needs have access to a medical home. Examples of technical assistance are:

• Provision of educational and advocacy materials
• Identification of barriers and assistance in overcoming them
• Strategic planning to build systems of care to support medical homes
• Linking individuals with model medical home projects across the Nation through the Medical Home Mentorship Network
• Identification of local, state, and national resources
• Coordination of planning meetings
• Identification of funding sources
• Dissemination of resources from the National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs at conferences
• Developing and disseminating medical home tools for families, providers, youth, insurers, communities and states

To request assistance of any kind through the National Center, please call 847/434-4917, or send e-mail to medical_home@aap.org.

Screening & Surveillance Technical Assistance
Pediatricians and other health care professionals who are interested in integrating screening and surveillance activities with the medical home can download tools and resources on newborn and infant hearing screening, newborn metabolic / genetic screening, preschool vision screening, and developmental screening and surveillance. National Center staff are available to provide assistance in any area and in facilitating the development of strategies throughout the process. If you have additional questions related to the Medical Home Screening & Surveillance Program, please send your question or comment by e-mail to mhscreening@aap.org.

Training Technical Assistance
AAP Chapters and anyone else interesting in hosting the Every Child Deserves a Medical Home Training Program in their local community or organization can download complementary materials that describe the process involved with implementing the program as well as the actual training manuals, marketing materials, power point slides, and other training resources. National Center staff are available to answer questions about this process and to help you strategize the training options to best meet you individualized needs. For more information, please e-mail mhtraining@aap.org.

Network around the country through the Medical Home Listserv and learn about new resources and funding opportunities.

MEDICAL HOMES@WORK

An e-Newsletter that offers monthly updates on medical home issues,
resources, funding opportunities, transitions, news from the National Center
of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. To subscribe, send an e-mail to medical_home@aap.org.

Last Updated May 2, 2008