Community Activities -East
Adams Team contact list
- 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 (www.co.adams.wa.us/departments/hd/publications.asp)
- Training in May on benefits of early intervention for children
with hearing loss was offered as part of the Early Hearing Loss
Detection, Diagnosis and Intervention (EHDDI) program stipend.
Spokane Team contact list
- Revised/distributed Child Health Notes to over 400 primary care
providers and community partners. CHN topics included: medical
home, Down syndrome, growth failure in early childhood, SSI benefits
for infants and children with disabilities, and oral health for
children. http://srhd.org/health/women-children/childhealthnotes.asp
- Team members and other partners involved in Care Coordination
Survey for ages 3-18 –results are currently being analyzed.
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”.
- Team physician is piloting a study identifying who the special
needs children are in his practice.
Stevens (NE Tri) Team contact list
- 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.
- Community parents with the support of the public health department
and others started “All Aboard Academy”, 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.
Typically developing siblings are welcome at the playgroup.
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