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Community Activities -Central

Benton-Franklin Team contact list

• Distributing Child Health Notes (www.bfhd.wa.gov/forms/form.php)
• Developed a laminated resource guide for doctors with information on how to access services for children with special needs with just one phone call.
• Presentations to physicians over lunch or breakfast.
• Individual members on the team are part of a behavioral health network looking at children’s behavioral health. Developed a child resource team so when there is a child with behavioral issues that no one knows what to do with, child resource team meest as a group, discusses all the options and comes up with a plan. Also involved with the Three Rivers Wrap-around Project (www.cshcn.org/resources/grantsupdate.htm#1) patterned after the Milwaukee Wrap Around. Funded by agencies who are blending existing funding to support flexible wrap around services for children with behavioral needs and their families.

Chelan-Douglas Team contact list

• Team physician involved in outreach and training efforts to Okanogan and other parts of Central Washington

Clark Team contact list

• Developed pediatric rotation schedule for families having a difficult time accessing a primary care provider for their special needs child. Local pediatricians on schedule take turns accepting referrals for special needs kids- especially those with open coupons.
• Developed a resource packet for parents with the low birth weight booklet distributed by Mary Bridge hospital and information on RSV, early intervention and CSHCN.

Douglas (see Chelan-Douglas)

Franklin (see Benton-Franklin)

Grant Team contact list

• Added physician member to local team
• Shared medical home tool kit; working on individualizing it for the county

• Worked on updated list of resources and referrals

• Meetings with schools and physicians to coordinate care

• Shortages of pediatric physical therapy and speech therapy services. Provided training to adult PTs to enable them to take pediatric clients.

• Grant County is one of the WISE grant (www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/WISE.htm) integrated services pilot sites and is addressing care coordination for young children with special health care needs. Blends well with medical home activities.

Kittitas Team contact list

• Distributing Child Health Notes- Notes are distributed as part of the health department bimonthly newsletter. (www.co.kittitas.wa.us/health/CommunityHealth.PDF)

• Interested in oral health outreach

• Putting together Medical Home Tool Kits for local doctors. CSHCN Coordinator developed a list of what supplies you need to put together your own tool kit which could save time for others who want to do the same thing.

• Wrote successful grant to Ronald McDonald house charities in Spokane to purchase hearing and screening equipment.

• Lead FRC team member also works for Head Start. This team member received successfully applied for a grant from Washington State Bright Futures to promote medical home among Head Start parents.

• Collaboration with the state Early Hearing Loss Detection, Diagnosis and Intervention (EHDDI) Program

Walla Walla Team contact list

• New team, so spent year organizing into a working team. Team has 12 members represented by a variety of families, health, and community services.

• Identified out community needs- what works well and what we need to work on next
• Set team goals

• Newborn hearing screening awareness and follow up in the in community (collaboration with state Early Hearing Loss Detection, Diagnosis and Intervention (EHDDI) program)

• Distributing Child Health Notes, including collaboration with Seattle Children's Hospital and CHDD on the development and distribution of a new Child Health Note on newborn hearing screening. www.co.walla-walla.wa.us

Yakima Team contact list

• Follow up for early screening for hearing loss through collaboration with the Early Hearing Loss Detection, Diagnosis and Intervention (EHDDI) program.

• Planning for autistic diagnostic services and treatment for children birth to 3 for children with pervasive developmental disorders
• Collaborative approaches to treatment for childhood obesity

• Interest in children having trouble in school—wrote and received two CATCH www.aap.org/catch/networking.htm (Community Access to Children’s Health ) planning grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

o First one was to put together a behavioral assessment team, which is still in place and functioning at Children’s Village www.yakimamemorialhospital.org/childrensvillage/index.htm

o Second grant was to put together a learning clinic which is still in place and functioning. The clinic sees children with school under-achievement and work on the co-morbidities of that at the clinic

• Yakima is one of the WISE (www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/WISE.htm) integrated services grant pilot sites, and through work at the Children’s Village is addressing the issue of blended funding for young children with special health care needs.