 Medical
Homes in Connecticut
This page is designed to keep you informed about events
and activities happening in Connecticut that will help improve
access to medical homes for children with special health care
needs (CSHCN).
Click on a topic below to learn more about what's
going on in Connecticut
Click here for funding opportunities in Connecticut
Medical Home Initiatives
This section
provides information on state medical home initiatives/programs.
States that are a part of the mentorship
network will have a "Promise to the State"
which outlines how they will achieve ensuring that all children
have a medical home by 2010. This is based on the Healthy
People 2010 goals which is a 10 year action plan to
achieve and
measure
success for all CSHCN.
Connecticut
Medical Home Contact:
Name:
Robin Tousey-Ayers
Contact: Phone: 860-509-7391 | Fax: 860-509-7669
Email: robin.tousey-ayers@po.state.ct.us
State Team:
Roster
| Web
site
The Medical Home System of Care in Connecticut -
Presentation 
Learn about what is a medical home, CT’s 8 current
medical homes, regional support through Children & Youth
with Special Health Care Needs Centers, the CT Medical
Home Academy, and steps for the future.
Medical Home and Connecticut’s New Community-Based
System of Care for Children & Youth with Special Health
Care Needs (CYSHCN)
Fact Sheet
 Frequently
Asked Questions
Where
are Connecticut’s Medical Homes and CYSHCN Centers?
Medical
Home Support Resources
Abstract
Background
Goals/Objectives
Project
Description
Outcomes
Connecticut Medical Home Poster:
Word
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Connecticut was selected to be part of the National NICHQ
Medical Home Learning Collaborative - A fifteen-month
collaborative activity to improve care for the growing population
of CSHCN. This initiative focuses on 3 practices in the
state and assists them in completing a quality improvement
process to provide medical homes to their patients with
special needs. It also assists in building the capacity
of Connecticut's CSHCN and other health department programs
to support and extend this approach after the completion
of the project period. For more information you can go to
the project overview.
Related Grant Initiatives
This section provides information
on current state grants that are working on medical home
initiatives. This includes the grant abstract as well as
key contacts for the grant.
Early Childhood Partners (ECP) - Abstract
Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
Martha Okafor, Department of Public Health (860) 509-8066
Liz Brown, Commission on Children (860) 240-0042
Program Description: The Connecticut Department
of Public Health has received federal funding to plan for
the implementation of a comprehensive, integrated early
childhood system that affords young children in all families
optimal health and readiness to learn by age five. The initiative
is called the Early Childhood Partners Initiative and the
proposed planning phase is a two-year period ending September
2005.
Connecticut ECP System Logic Model
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Program/Systems Diagram
Goal: The EC System is integrated, comprehensive
and works for young children and families
Partners in the State
This section provides information
on who in the state (individuals and agencies) are working
together to create medical homes for children.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Chapter:
users.rcn.com/ctaap/main.html
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter:
www.ctafp.org/
Connecticut Children with Special Health Care Needs
(Title V) Program Web Site:
Yale Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Title V Block Grant to States
Title V of the Social Security Act is one of the largest
Federal block grant programs. It leads the nation in ensuring
the health of all mothers, infants, children, adolescents,
and children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Title
V is administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(MCHB) as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Title V and Children with Special Health Care
Needs
MCHB Objective: Support development and
implementation of comprehensive, culturally competent,
coordinated systems of care for the estimated 18 million
U.S. children who have or are at risk for chronic physical,
developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions and
who also require health and related services of a type
or amount beyond that required by children generally.
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Contact(s):
State EHDI programs promote universal newborn hearing screening,
develop effective tracking and follow-up as a part of the
public health system, promote appropriate and timely diagnosis
of the hearing loss, prompt enrollment in appropriate Early
Intervention, ensure a medical home for all newborns and
strive to eliminate geographic and financial barriers to
service access.
Name: Donna C. Maselli, RN, MPH
Contact: Phone: 860-509-8081 | Fax: 860
509-8132 | E-mail: donna.maselli@po.state.ct.us
Birth to Three System - Early Intervention/Part C Coordinator:
The Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part
C of IDEA) is a federal grant program that assists states
in operating a comprehensive statewide program of early
intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities,
ages birth through age 2 years, and their families.
Name: Linda Goodman
Contact: Phone: (860) 418-6147| Fax:
(860) 418-6003 | Email: linda.goodman@po.state.ct.us
Web Site: www.birth23.org/
Section 619/Special Education for ages 3-5 Coordinators:
This program provides free appropriate public education
(FAPE) for children, ages 3 through 5 years, with disabilities:
Name: Maria Synodi
Contact: Phone: (860) 807-2054 | Fax:
(860) 807-2062 | Email: maria.synodi@po.state.ct.us
Web Site: www.state.ct.us/sde/deps/early/PreschoolSE/index.htm
State Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC) Chairs:
The ICC advises appropriate agencies on the unmet needs
in early childhood special education and early intervention
programs for children with disabilities, assists in the
development and implementation of policies that constitute
a statewide system, and assists all appropriate agencies
in achieving full participation, coordination, and cooperation
for implementation of statewide system.
Name: Laurel Ross, Acting ICC Chair
Contact: Phone: (203) 629-1880 X132 | Fax: (203) 629-4390
Email: ross@arcgreenwich.org
Web site: www.ectac.org/contact/iccchair.asp#CT
Resources
State Waiver Information: www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/08_WavMap.asp
Waivers are the result of a process that allows state Medicaid
agencies to apply for and receive permission from HCFA to
provide services not otherwise covered by Medicaid and/or
to do so in ways not described by the Social Security Act.
Most Medicaid managed care programs require Waivers. The
Waivers, which can differ greatly, are known by their numbers
(1115, 1119), or as home-and community-based, or as Katie
Beckett Waivers.
Educational
Initiatives
This section provides information
on training initiatives on the medical home. Some states
will discuss their outreach projects in relation to physicians,
families, and the community.
Service/Care Coordination National Conference
October 27- 29, 2005
The training will focus on the dissemination of model outcomes
and practices as identified through the past five years
of research activities at the center. The National Conference
is sponsored by the Research and Training Center in Service
Coordination at the University of Connecticut and A.J. Pappanikou
Center (CT UCEDD) and the Department of Education Office
of Special Education Programs. Co-Sponsors include: Virgin
Islands UCEDD; Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
(UCEDD); and the Early Childhood Research Institute at the
Utah State University Center for Persons with Disabilities
(UCEDD).
Medical Home Legislative Forum - March
9, 2005
The Medical Home Forum was planned and co-sponsored by the
University of Connecticut Center on Disabilities, as well
as the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut
Commission on Children. The forum was held on 3/9/05 and
addressed the topic of medical home models and how research
can benefit Connecticut. For more information go to:
Medical Home Training Academy
- March 8, 2005
A Medical Home Academy (MHA) was presented on March 8, 2005
at the Hartford Marriott in Rocky Hill, CT, in collaboration
with the Child Health & Development Institute of Connecticut,
University of Connecticut Health Center and Eastern Area
Health Education Center. This continuing education program
is designed to educate pediatricians, family physicians,
other health care providers, family representatives, child
health advocates, hospital ambulatory care for families,
community health centers, school-based health centers, insurance
administrators, government officials, and any other group
of individuals that work with children and youth. Over 100
individuals participated in this inaugural event.
The MHA is part of an continuing effort to establish a
quality ongoing primary care practice improvement training
system for pediatric and adolescent health care providers
in order to improve the holistic and comprehensive health
of children, youth and including those with special health
care needs. The MHA presented the practical and effective
practice improvement methodology that is needed to enhance
primary care for children and their families/caregivers
in Connecticut.
Existing national and statewide curriculum were modified
into Connecticut-specific training modules to first be delivered
in the one-day conference. Additional sessions will be offered
in a variety of formats including pediatric office in-service
trainings, Grand Rounds, CD’s, and video & audiotapes.
For more information and to view the presentations from
the Academy
click here.
Screening
Initiatives
This section provides information on surveillance
and screening initiatives in the state.
Developmental Surveillance and Screening Policy
Implementation Project (D-PIP)
Charter Oak Health Center at Connecticut Children's
Medical Center from Hartford, CT and Hospital
of Saint Raphael Pediatric Primary Care Center
of New Haven, CT are participating in the Developmental
Surveillance and Screening Policy Implementation Project
(D-PIP). The D-PIP has selected 17 practices from across
the United States to implement the AAP policy statement
(scheduled for publication in July 2006) “Identifying
Infants and Young Children with Developmental Disorders
in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance
and Screening” to 1) determine if the algorithm is
efficiently and effectively implemented into pediatric practice;
2) recognize strategies for implementing the algorithm;
and 3) examine outcomes of implementation. Following the
project, information and outcomes will be shared with pediatric
clinicians and other health care professionals who are seeking
to improve the delivery of developmental surveillance and
screening.
Click
here for additional information on the D-PIP.
State Newborn Screening & Genetics Programs:
genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/resources.htm
- State Newborn Screening Program Links
- State Genetics Program Links
- Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening Collaborative
Links
- Newborn Screening State Contact Fact Sheet
Autism Service Guidelines
Guidelines for the Identification
and Education of Children and Youth with Autism (Guidelines)
These Guidelines address critical issues and current research
important to individuals who are concerned about children
and youth with autistic spectrum disorders. New to the
Guidelines are chapters on —Assessment and Eligibility“ and —Transition
Planning.“
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/DEPS/Special/Guidelines_Autism.pdf
Funding Opportunities
Deadline: October 7, 2006
The Cultural Capital Grants program, administered through the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, will provide grants of $5,000 to $75,000 to eligible institutions for restoration, expansion, and facilities improvements.
Grants may be used by nonprofit organizations for rehabilitation, restoration, stabilization, improvement, expansion, or purchase of existing buildings, or the construction of a new addition or building, as long as the structure is utilized primarily for cultural programs.
Cultural Capital Grants will be offered in conjunction with the Historic Restoration Fund program, an existing grant program that has been significantly expanded this year. Historic Restoration Fund grants may be used by municipalities and nonprofit organizations to restore, rehabilitate, stabilize, and acquire properties that are listed on the State or National Register of Historic Places. Grant awards range from $5,000 to $200,000 each, with an available grant pool of $2.5 million.
Grant awards must be matched on a one-to-one basis with cash (no in-kind services allowed).
Further information and application forms are available from the commission's Web site.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10003573/cultureandtourism
For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtm
State Resources on the Internet
Note: The information provided on the state pages was submitted
by the state medical home teams.As this is not an exhaustive
list, please let us know if you have additions for your
state resource page. You can contact us at: medical
home@aap.org.
Last Updated
March 22, 2007
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