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Family-to-Family Health Information Center
The MA Family-to-Family Health Information Center, a project of Mass Family Voices, is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs. This parent-run center provides free technical assistance to families with children and youth with special health needs, and others. Contact us for information about:
  • Masshealth and other health care financing options
  • Health care services and supports for children and youth with special health needs and their families
  • Information about collaborating with others to address barriers to health care
  • Participating in opportunities to improve systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs
Learn more about the MA F2F HIC.

Massachusetts Family Voices
Mass Family Voices @ Federation for Children with Special Needs is a parent-run, state chapter of Family Voices, a national grassroots network of families, friends and professional partners brought together by a common concern for children and youth with special health care needs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's Happening

heart graphicTopical Conference Calls

DATE: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
TIME: 11 am – 12 noon
TOPIC: Supporting Siblings of Children & Youth with Special Needs
PRESENTER: Dr. Meike Watzlawik, Developmental Psychologist and visiting scholar at Clark University
Handouts, toll-free dial in number and conference code will be available by December 1. For more information now, call 1-800-331-0688, ext. 210 or e-mail massfv@fcsn.org.

If you were unable to participate in past calls, you can listen to the playback and download the handouts at Topical Calls.


heart graphicHealth & Wellness

Healthy Eating Teens eat more meals away from their families and have more control over when and what they eat. Read about Trends in Teen Nutrition, and get ideas for helping your teen manage weight, eating disorders and learn tips for healthy eating at Kid Source Online.


 

Resource Highlight

heart graphic In July 2002, after 11 years of advocacy, Massachusetts General Law Chapter 171: An Act Providing Support to Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families was passed. Seven state agencies are named in the law (see list at here). The implementation of this law states that each of the 7 state agencies will solicit “substantial consultation” from the families they serve and use it to create an annual Individual and Family Support Plan (read the 2009 plans on the MFOFC website).

For information about how each agency collects substantial consultation, read the Chapter 171 report. If your family receives services from one of the agencies mentioned in the report and you’d like to know how you can participate in the “substantial consultation” process next year, or have other feedback to contribute, contact the agency liaison.