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The Arizona Department of Health
Services (ADHS), Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs
(OCSHCN), promotes the development of Parent-Led Community Action
Teams in partnership with families and communities. The development
and formation of the program is responsive to Healthy People 2010
Objectives and is supported by the Maternal and Child Health Block
Grant National Performance Measures.
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Core Outcomes to be Achieved
- All children with special health care
needs will receive coordinated ongoing comprehensive care within a medical
home.
- All families of children with special
health care needs will have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay
for the services they need.
- All children will be screened early and
continuously for special health care needs.
- Services for children with special health
care needs and their families will be organized in ways that families can
use them easily.
- Families of children with special health
care needs will partner in decision making at all levels, and will be
satisfied with the services they receive.
- All youth with special health care needs
will receive the services necessary to make appropriate transitions to adult
health care, work, and independence
PARENT LED COMMUNITY ACTION TEAMS
OCSHCN collaborates with and financially
supports Parent and Youth Leaders as they continuously seek out other parents,
youth and professional and community partners, to create Parent-Led Community
Action Teams. Membership of the teams consists of parents and family members of
children with special health care needs, professional providers of services,
administrators, community leaders, elected officials, and interested citizens.
These teams, led by parents and in
collaboration with OCSHCN, are formed to identify resources and prioritize
issues needing resolution, plan activities and take action, assuming ownership
of all activities. They receive funding and technical assistance through
organizational support contracts.
The OCSHCN currently partners with 13
Parent-Led Community Action Teams representing numerous communities and/or
regions in Arizona. Learn more about these dynamic teams.
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