Community Activities – East
Adams County
Team contact list | County CSHCN Data 
Recent and Upcoming Activities
- Parent to Parent Coordinator for Grant and Adams County and Adams County MHLN team parent did a medical home training for the local parent support group for Spanish-speaking families
- Training to local primary care providers about providing care to children with Down syndrome and their families. Recruited Dr. Judith Martin, Specialist at Inland Northwest Genetics to speak.
- Welcomed new bilingual parent to team.
- Reviewed portions of the Washington State Medical Home website, including the Down syndrome pages, and provided feedback to MHLN staff.
- Team meetings 3 times per year to share information case conference
re: clients and strategize regarding client services improvement.
- Child Health Notes distributed to health care providers and
child care providers
Past Activities
Other Medical Home-related Activities
Garfield County
Teams contact list | County CSHCN Data
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Spokane County
Team contact list | County CSHCN Data
Recent and Upcoming Activities
- Through the local health jurisdiction, the team distributes a graphically enhanced version of the Spokane Child Health Notes which is distributed to over 400 primary care
providers and community partners.
- Team physician recieved 2005 CATCH grant "Establishing a Spokane ADHD Care Model."
The overall goal of the project was to conduct community forums and a one-day workshop to produce an action plan to establish a Spokane ADHD Care Model for identification, stabilization, and management of youth with ADHD.
Past Activities
- Team physician piloted a study identifying who the special needs children are in his practice. Presented findings at May 2004 Medical Home Grand Rounds at Children's Hospital in Seattle.
- Team members and other partners involved in Care Coordination
Survey for ages 3-18.
- Team physician and family resources coordinator presented with
national AAP Medical Home staff Sept. 2003 at First International
Conference on Family-Centered Care in Boston on “Every Child
Deserves a Medical Home: How to Establish Family-Professional
Partnerships”.
Other Medical Home-related Activities
- Children with Special Health Care Needs Program - program includes Care Coordination, Cleft Lip and Palate, Infant Toddler Network, Nutrition, and WorkFirst services.
- WA Department of Health publication "Community Based Nutrition Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Spokane County, Washington" (August 2006) based on 8 years of data of nutrition concerns, services, interventions and outcomes for 431 children with special health care needs in Spokane County. The children received community-based nutrition services from registered dietitians who had specialized training and were employed by the CSHCN program.
- The Spokane Early Learning Mobilization team, a collaborative of eight agencies, received a $25,000 Planning Grant from the Foundation for Early Learning to create and sustain a locally governed and unified Early Learning System in Spokane County.
- The Autism Task Force of Spokane received a CATCH Planning grant in 2002 to establish a planning process that culminated in the development of the regional Northwest Autism Center in Spokane, WA. (abstract)
- Growing Up Healthy - 2003 series from Spokane Public Radio explored children’s health and health care in the Inland Northwest. The series included segments focusing on children with special health care needs and their families. The series was a partnership with weekly Pacific Northwest Inlander and the Spokane Regional Health District with foundation funding.
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Stevens (NE Tri) County
Team contact list | County CSHCN Data
Recent and Upcoming Activities
Past Activities
- Organized local presentation/workshop on Down syndrome and early intervention with over 60 parents and professionals in attendance. Keynote speaker was MHLN Director, Dr. Curt Bennett.
Other Medical Home-related Activities
- Community parents with the support of the public health department and others started “All Aboard Academy”, a developmental birth-to-3 preschool in Colville. The preschool initially began as a play group for young children with disabilities. Parents recruited a physical therapist and a speech therapist to start a play group because young kids with disabilities in the rural community were isolated. The group has secured state education dollars to fund the program and developed All Aboard Academy into a comprehensive developmental preschool.
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