How Can We Help You?

At the National Center for Medical Home Implementation, many types of assistance are available:

General Technical Assistance
Technical assistance is offered to anyone who is involved in ensuring all children and youth have the services and support to access to a medical home. Examples of technical assistance are:

• Identification of barriers and assistance in overcoming them
• Strategic planning to build systems of care to support medical homes
• Identification of local, state, and national resources
• Linking individuals to the medical home contacts in their states
• Updating medical home state webpages
• Identification of funding sources
• Dissemination of resources from the National Center for Medical Home Implementation
• 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 (800) 433-9016 Ext. 7621 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.

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 October 12, 2009