May 23, 2002
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Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into the Six Core Outcomes for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Success Stories
Tawara D. Goode, Director, National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
Sharon Taba, Project Director, Hawaii Medical Home Implementation
Project;
Harry and Donna Brown, Parents of Kahiau Brown and Partners-Na Hulu Mamo, a
Ko'olauloa parent group
May Okihiro, MD, Pediatrician, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Center;
Jackie McPhee, Program Coordinator for Child Health Services at Children's Village/ Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
Joanne Jennings, RN, Specialty Clinic Coordinator at Children's Village/ Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Suzanne Bronheim, Senior Policy Associate,
Maternal and Child Health Projects, NCCC
Diana Denboba, Public Health Analyst,
Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
Division of Services for Children With Special Health Care Needs
Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into the Six Core Outcomes for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Success Stories
Wendy Jones, Director of Maternal and Child Health Projects, NCCC
A number of resources have been identified and collected for this call. They are listed below. Materials for the conference call can be accessed through the direct links provided below.
To read more about the six critical indicators of success
in meeting the Healthy People 2010 goal of: Increase the proportion
of states and territories that have service systems for children
with or at risk of chronic and disabling conditions as required
by Public Law 101-239, go to the MCHB Web site at:
www.mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/specialneeds/measuresuccess.htm
For a draft version of a report being prepared on an action
plan to assure the attainment of these outcomes, you can visit
the Institute for Child Health Policy Web site at:
http://cshcnleaders.ichp.edu/measuresdraft10yearplan.htm
The Malama Pono project in Hawaii has produced a
new guide to creating a culturally and linguistically competent
medical
home--Medical
Home: Reaching the Next Level
This monograph (available in its entirety or downloadable
by chapter in PDF format) is supported in part by project 4
HO2 MC 00010-0402 from the Maternal
and
Child
Health
Bureau
(Title
V, Social Security
Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department
of Health and Human Services.
Hawaii's Lessons Learned about medical home and cultural effective care.(MSWord document)
Additional information about the medical home concept and
the MCHB funded efforts related to medical home can be
found at: www.medicalhomeinfo.org
Under the resources section, the page on Compassionate and Culturally Effective
Care has a list of periodicals and articles. Keep an eye on that page for
future materials being developed by the project on culturally effective care.
On the American Academy of Pediatrics Web site at www.aap.org, there are a number of policy statements relating to culturally effective care. The best way to access these is by using the site's search function and typing in "culturally effective" as the search term. Policy statements also have reference lists that are useful.
To learn more about how Yakima County Washington works to make services easy for families to use, visit the Communities Can! Web site and access the PDF version of the 1999 and 2000 Communities of Excellence document. Read about Yakima in that document.
You can also order a copy of Building a Village for Children with Special Health Care Needs at http://www.ask.hrsa.gov/detail.cfm?id=MCHN117 . This booklet explores its initial development, steps to implementation, successes and future challenges.
You can also check out further examples of integrated community services in the 2001 Communities of Excellence, 2002 Communities of Excellence, and 2003 Communities of Excellence publications.
