Children with Special Health Care Needs Service System

Children's Special Health Services supports initiatives that lead to a community-based system of services for all families, children, and youth with special health-care needs. Activities focus on screening, transition, medical home, family partnership and satisfaction, adequate insurance, and community-based service systems.

Children With Special Health Care Needs Performance Measures/CSHS is striving to achieve a community-based system of services for all families of children and youth with special health care needs by the year 2010. Focus areas that are measured to determine progress in this effort include:

• Family participation and satisfaction.
• Access to medical home.
• Early and continuous screening.
• Adequate insurance.
• Community-based systems of care.
• Transition to adulthood.