Marketing Materials
This section includes a variety of outreach and marketing materials to promote medical homes for all children and youth, including those with special needs. We encourage you to adapt these materials to help further medical home education and awareness.
National Center for Medical Home Implementation - Web site Promo 
National Center for Medical Home Implementation - Video on Medical Home
Building Your Medical Home Toolkit Flyer
Medical Home Overview Informational Flyers
These downloadable materials, originally created for 2009 Child Health Day, provide an overview of medical home tailored for various audiences to help spread the message that every child and youth deserves a medical home.
Medical Home Coloring Sheets and Bookmarks for Kids
These downloadable coloring sheets and bookmarks will make learning about medical home fun for kids!
Medical Home Practice Brochure for Parents Template
AAP Division of Children with Special Needs Fact Sheet
Medical Home & Healthy People 2010 Goals - Fact Sheet
Medical Home for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Chronic Care Model
Brochures for Families
- A NEW WAY… A BETTER WAY. The Medical Home Partnership: Building a Home Base for Your Child with Special Health Care Needs: Brochure
This large-format brochure was developed by New England SERVE for families in Massachusetts. It defines the Medical Home Partnership and provides a checklist for families to use in choosing a new physician for their child, or as a way to start a conversation with their child's doctor about Medical Home. The back page provides resources for building medical home partnerships in Massachusetts. If you are interested in replicating this brochure with specific information for your state or community, please contact Alexa Halberg at ahalberg@neserve.org or by phone: 617/574-9493.
- Parent Tips: Building Early Intervention Partnerships with Your Child's Doctor
Also available in:
Cambodian ,
Chinese ,
Korean ,
Laotian ,
Russian ,
Spanish ,
Vietnamese
This brochure, developed by the Washington State Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program (ITEIP) and the University of Washington Center for Human Development and Disabilities (CHDD), includes practical tips from and for parents in how to choose, partner and talk with your child's doctor, how to be an advocate for your child in early intervention and involve your doctor in early intervention services for your child.
- What is a Medical Home: How Can it Help Your Child with Special Needs
This brochure, developed by the South Carolina Medical Home Team, helps define a Medical Home and how can you work with your doctor to improve care for your child.
- Family Brochure: Every Child Deserves a Medical Home
The Illinois Title V CSHCN program, the Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC) has developed a brochure to help families of CSHCN better understand how they can work with their primary health care provider to establish a Medical Home.
- A Medical Home is About You
Developed by the National Partnership for Women & Families, this brochure describes how families can get the most from medical home.
- Principles for Patient and Family-Centered Care: Medical Home from the Consumer Perspective
Developed by the National Partnership for Women & Families, this brochure describes the nine key principles that should guide the implementation of patient-and family-centered medical home.
- Families Partnering With Providers
Developed by Family Voices, these tips on communicating with your child's providers focus on the following areas: Preparing For An Office Visit, Talking With Your Child's Provider, Learning More (after the visit with the provider), and Helping Your Provider Help Other Families.
- Parent's Partnering with Managed Care Plans
Developed by Family Voices, this seven-page pamphlet of topics and questions can be used as a starting point for families and plans to share perspectives on services for children with special health needs and to help guide plans and families in ways to partner together to improve services.
- Families in Title V
Materials from this Family Voices project document and support family partnership with Title V programs and the Title V block grant, including workbooks, presentations, and booklets of partnership information, ideas, and strategies.
- Does Your Child Have a MEDICAL HOME? /¿Tiene Su Hijo un HOGAR MÉDICO?
Developed by Washington State Medical Home, this brochure for families features an explanation of what a medical home is, the benefits of a medical home, and how to know if your child has one. The brochure includes tips from families about how you and your child's medical home doctor and care team can work together to improve care for your child. There is space on the back panel for a label with local contacts or resources. This brochure is at the eighth grade reading level.
Brochures for Physicians
Connecticut Medical Home Poster: The CT Medical Home System of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
( PDF )
Oregon Medical Home Posters (3 posters are available in one document)
Medical Home Posters for Practices from the Illinois Medical Home Team
All of the following posters include: [Pediatric Practice Name] is proud to announce a new approach for providing care that will help improve quality health care for children with special health care needs. This nationally recognized way of providing care is called Medical Home.
- Medical Home: A Family-Professional Partnership
Your link to a bright future for children with special health care needs (Each poster has a different image and is available in 2 sizes)
- Poster (8.5X14) | (8.5X11)
- Poster (8.5X14) | (8.5X11)
- Poster (8.5X14) | (8.5X11)
- Poster (8.5X14) | (8.5X11)
- Destination Medical Home
Your ticket to a healthy future for children with special health care needs
- Poster (8.5X14) | (8.5X11)
Medical Home Posters from the Hawaii Medical Home Team
The Medium and Large sizes are larger than what a printer allows. You will need to download the posters to a CD and take them to a printer. To order free copies, email Sharon Taba at medicalhomesharon@hawaii.rr.com. A limited number are available and shipping costs are not included.
Pennsylvania Medical Home Initiative - Video on Medical Home
Video on the Oregon Medical Home Network
The Oregon Medical Home Network consists of six primary care practices and the Office of the Oregon Medical Home Project at CDRC who have participated in a 3-year project designed to improve services for families with children and youth having special health care needs.
A video is available where you can learn more about the network, meet the community teams, and hear from pediatric clinicians and families on the importance of having a medical home.
Building a Medical Home Partnership: A Wisconsin Toolkit
Each section of this toolkit includes several brief videos, where Medical Home Team members share their perspectives.
Medical Home Works!
Presents three 15-min brief interactive videos and companion materials of specific Medical Home Partnerships
View Video and Guides
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the roles of medical home partners
- Describe the skills needed for the parent as care coordinator
- Analyze strategies for implementing comprehensive and continuous care
- Determine access to relevant services for the child with special needs
Evaluation Form 
The presentations were developed for interprofessional audiences including Hospital Grand Rounds, Continuing Medical Education AAP Conferences, co-facilitated with families, physicians and community agencies. They provide a framework for which you may build such a topical presentation for residents and child health care professionals. Families, Physicians and Community agencies can promote expanded understanding of the medical home and increasing implementation of medical homes for all children especially children with special health care needs. Medical Home Family Stories aim to increase the capacity in developing community-based partnerships. The videos are intended to spark discussion, learning and implementation of local-grown medical home strategies that work in your own communities.
Developed by: Kenn Saruwatari, MD, FAAP, Sharon Taba, MEd, Lynn B. Wilson, PhD
