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- The Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program helps children 20 and younger who have special health care needs and people with cystic fibrosis of any age improve their health, well-being and quality of life.
www.hhs.texas.gov/services/disability/children-special-health-care-needs-services-program
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HRSA MCHB defines children and youth with special health care needs (CSHCN) as: "those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally."
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Family-centered services are evidence of a program’s commitment to family partnerships and supporting child and family development. 10.5.1 – Family-centered care relies on respect and collaboration. 445. Services are family-centered when: The family is recognized as the child's most constant and important caregiver.
- Who Are Cyschn?
- How Many Children Have A Special Health Care Need?
- What Guides Our National Efforts to Improve Public Health Systems For Cyschn?
- How Does The Blueprint For Change Help Create Change?
- How Does This Work Help Families?
- How Do We Help Our Systems improve?
- Which Groups Play A Critical Role in Driving Change?
CYSHCN have or are at increased risk for having chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions. They have conditions such as asthma, sickle cell disease, epilepsy, anxiety, autism, and learning disorders. They may require more specialized health and educational servicesito thrive, even though each child’s needs may vary.
According to our National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) (PDF), in our country about 20% of children under 18 years old have a special health care need.
We created the Blueprint for Change. It guides our national improvements toward system-level change. The Blueprint is a series of articles in the journal, Pediatrics(link is external). It provides the national framework for improving systems of services for CYSCHN.
It focuses on areas that are important to families: 1. Health equity 2. Quality of life and well-being 3. Access to services 4. Financing of services The Blueprint for Changeguides people and organizations at all levels to improve the journey for a child with special health care needs. The framework encourages changes so that families: 1. Can navig...
The system of services and supports can be complex, depending on a child’s needs. We want to make it easier for families to find the right clinicians, equipment, and treatments. Families should have access to quality services no matter where they live or their ability to pay.
We improve systems by working with families, healthcare professionals, and public health leaders. Together with our partners, we help these children, youth, and their families throughout their lives, from infancy through adulthood.
Families
We develop and fund programs that require partnerships with families. We serve as a federal voice, urging the inclusion of self-advocates and ways for families to be represented and heard at all levels of care. Families are often the best guides. They can tell us how to make the systems easier to navigate. Children and youth have better outcomes when their families engage with healthcare professionals. Through our partnerships with families and family-led organizations, we: 1. Identify emergi...
Healthcare professionals
We support healthcare professionals in clinical, community, research, and other settings. They work with families to get the services their children need. Our funding helps them make the most of rapid advances in technology, treatments, and care. We design and fund programs to develop best practices and innovative approaches, and family engagement. Some of our efforts, like newborn screening, reach nearly everyone. Other programs focus on specific conditions such as epilepsy or sickle cell di...
Public health leaders
We help public health leaders to provide, improve, and better coordinate the clinical care and other services that families need. We support public health leaders in state governments, universities, and community-based organizations to: 1. Identify emerging issues 2. Develop partnerships 3. Use best practices 4. Measure what matters across programs that serve children and families
Jun 1, 2022 · Children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) are a sizable and diverse population with variable access to well-functioning systems of care. The National Survey of Children’s Health is the nation’s primary source for data on CYSHCN and the only source for state-level estimates.
Definition of Children with Special Health Care Needs. The federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau defines children with special health care needs (CSHCN) as: “those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also
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Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) are those children "who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioural, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally."
Jun 1, 2022 · All children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), as currently identified, have chronic health conditions.
