Every
Child Deserves a Medical Home Training
Curriculum
What are people saying about medical home training initiatives?
“I feel like we were able to build some relationships
with some people who we can help and who can help us as
we continue to work toward the same goal, but from different
directions.”
– Brad Thompson: Parent; TX Coordinator for
Family Voices
“The planning process and the training program
mobilized our community of providers that care for CSHCN
and hopefully enlightened legislatures as well.”
– Matthew Sadof, MD, FAAP: Baystate Medical
Center Children’s Hospital
“It was a unique opportunity which allowed
us to get the time and attention of a diverse group of key
players in the children's policy arena during a particularly
difficult time in the state with budget difficulties, cuts
in services and a major system reorganization.”
– Desiree B. Pendergrass, MD, MPH; Assistant Medical
Director; CSHCN Division; Texas Department of Health
Curriculum
Design
The medical home training curriculum has been written
at a national level so that communities can customize and
add local information. Seven components comprise the curriculum
which enables it to be presented all at once in a 1-day
program, individually as shorter training modules or sessions
at local, naturally occurring meetings.
The flexible design of the curriculum enables organizations
to customize the program length and target audience.
The curriculum is available in facilitator and participant
versions, with the only difference being the inclusion of
teaching strategies within the facilitator copy. In both
versions, each component contains appendix items that entail
resources and tools that correlate to the component's subject
matter. The curriculum is available in
English and Spanish. To view and download the curriculum,
click here.
The seven components of the curriculum
are:
- Common Elements
Overview of the medical home approach to quality, comprehensive
health care for children with special needs.
- Family-Professional Partnerships
The common elements of family-centered care and strategies
to develop family-professional partnerships.
- Practices, Policies and Procedures
Practical strategies to implement medical homes into practice.
- Comprehensive, Coordinated, Collaborative Care
Strategies for coordinating care, working with community
based resources, and collaborating with specialists and
allied health care professionals.
- Transitions
Understand transition related issues and strategies for
advancing children and youth into adulthood.
- State and Local Advocacy
Learn strategies to better advocate for children with
special health care needs and identify key partners to
assist in these efforts.
- Surveillance and Screening
Understand the importance of implementing continuous surveillance
within a medical home, while learning about practical
screening tools to utilize if needed.
Offers discussion regarding mental and oral health, developmental,
vision and hearing screening.
Current and Past Medical Home Training
Initiatives
To find out about past training initiatives that have occurred
throughout the country since 1999 click
here. The majority of these initiatives have been based
off of the Every Child Deserves a Medical Home training
curriculum, and were hosted at a local Shriners Hospital
for Children. To view more information on a specific program,
please click on the link associated with each location.
To find out about current training initiatives click
here or check out the "Educational Initiatives"
section on your state page.
Questions?
If you have additional questions related to training or
educational programs at the National Center of Medical Home
Initiatives for Children with Special Needs, please send
your question or comment by e-mail to mhtraining@aap.org,
or complete the on-line
Interest Form.
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