Community Activities – NW
Clallam County
Team contact list
| County CSHCN Data 
Recent and Upcoming Activities
- Job changes in the county, including the recent retirement of the public health CSHCN Coordinator has led to a lull in the team. Concerned Citizens, a dynamic parent/family- driven human services organization with a particular focus on people with developmental and other disabilities is the lead agency for the county's Early Intervention Services. Family Resources Coordinators from Concerned Citizens are exploring interest from the local primary care provider and allied health services communities in restarting and expanding a local team.
Past Activities
- Team members work closely with the pediatricians in the one pediatric
office. They also support the 12+ family physicians in the county.
- Team members have used their contacts at the state level to help
local families access services in Seattle, Mary Bridge, and elsewhere.
They are usually able to get families who need it into services.
- A challenge the team has had is the lack of time they have to
focus on team-specific activities. Their agencies are short-staffed.
The philosophy of the local health department is to have generalist
nurses who can handle anything who comes up, so the CSHCN Coordinator
also works in WIC, Immunizations, Communicable Disease, and Maternal
and Infant Health.
Other Medical Home-related Activities
- The United Way of Clallam County is part of the national and international movement called Healthy Communities (called Healthy Impact since 2006). The premise behind the movement is that community problems are the end result of community situations that can be identified at their root cause, addressed and changed. After intensive community input, the United Way of Clallam County decided to focus on 3 local programs: 1) a county-wide resource and referral line for human services, 2) increasing access to health care for everyone and 3) increasing literacy skills for everyone.
- As part of the county literacy campaign, all children from birth to 5 years old receiving well child checkups at Peninsula Children’s Clinic and their satellite offices go home with a new, age-appropriate book through the Reach Out and Read program
Skagit County
Team contact list
| County CSHCN Data
Recent and Upcoming Activities
- Team physician is piloting a Family Advisory Committee for her practice with both parents of special needs and typically developing children. Team family resources coordinator/parent to parent coordinator and public health nurse are participating as members. The focus of the parent group is broader than CSHCN but there is still an emphasis in that area because more information and support is typically useful for those families.
- Team physician, Dr. Andrea Smith Lowe has given presentations on the development of the Skagit Pediatrics Family Advisory Committee at the Feb. 2007 Children's Preventive Health Care Collaborative Learning Session, the July 2007 Washington Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics' Annual CME meeting, and the Nov. 2004 MHLN Team Physicians' Summit.
- Utilize public awareness contacts and visits to provide/distribute
resources in the form of parent resource notebooks and/or resource
bulletin boards (pre-made, “you hang” type) to interested
pediatric practices.
- Duplication and distribution of Medical Home toolkits to
physicians offices as part of ongoing presentations.
Presentations to physicians include birth-to-three, medical
home, Parent to Parent and resources information.
Past Activities
- Produced “Quick Resource Card” for providers
with service information for CSHCN in Skagit and two neighboring
counties of Island and San Juan.
- Developed bulletin board for the new Children’s Museum
so that families who have children with special needs can get information somewhere other
than a physician’s office.
Other Medical Home-related Activities
- Skagit Pediatrics is participating in the 2006-07 Children's Health Improvement Collaborative to prevent and treat childhood obesity.
- "Partners in Health Literacy" project (renamed
the GetHELP project for marketing purposes) funded by the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library. Project targeted the low literate and/or low-income population of health care consumers in Skagit County. Libraries, public health, primary care clinics and others collaborated on the project to improve consumers ability to access, understand and organize health information to support their own health.
- The ARC of Whatcom County, serving Skagit and Island Counties
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Snohomish County
Team contact list
| County CSHCN Data Recent and Upcoming Activities
- MHLN team meets every other month
- Currently focusing on updating community resource lists for Children with Special Health Care Needs and their families.
- The Snohomish Health District Children with Special Health Care Needs Program and the Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program have been distributing the Snohomish County Child Health Notes to physicians and community professionals and agencies since 1999.
Past Activities
- The Snohomish Medical Home team distributed the Medical Home Toolkit to Everett Clinic pediatricians and family physicians, the Tulalip Health Clinic and SeaMar Clinic.
- CHILD Profile-Linked Developmental Screening Pilot with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire
The Snohomish County team, along with Dr. Katherine TeKolste
of the University of Washington and Judy Ward of Snohomish Health
district, implemented a pilot project to explore the feasibility
of universal developmental screening through CHILD Profile mailings.
During April and May, 2003 families of 18 month old children in
Snohomish County were invited through their CHILD Profile mailing
to complete an Ages and Stages Questionnaire for their child. Questionnaires
were scored by the team. Families whose children have possible developmental
concerns were called with those results. Results were also sent
to the child's primary care provider (PCP), with parent permission.
Parents and PCP's were surveyed about the project.
Other Medical Home-related Activities
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Whatcom County
Team contact list
| County CSHCN Data Recent and Upcoming Activities
Past Activities
- Applied for and received
Early Hearing Loss Detection, Diagnosis and Intervention (EHDDI) program grant for newborn hearing
screening and follow up. Have targeted the Native American population
and migrant Hispanic populations.
- Held training at Lummi Tribal Reservation
- Developed materials in English and Spanish and will distribute
to doctors’ offices and libraries in the county.
- Providing technical assistance to MHLN staff on development
of state website.
- Whatcom was one of the WISE grant integrated services pilot sites, and looked at a single
cross agency care coordination for young children with special health
care needs
Other Medical Home-related Activities
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