Nevada Family-to-Family Health Information Center
Activities:
Family TIES has operated the Nevada Family-to-Family Health Information Center (F2F HIC) since 2005 which offers no-cost family-centered services that include training, information and assistance, community outreach, emotional support and advocacy to families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. The F2F HIC maintains a commitment to assure that all families of children with special health care needs participate in making informed choices about health care in order to promote good treatment decisions, cost-effectiveness, and improved health outcomes for such children.
- Provide information and resources regarding health care needs.
- Identify successful health delivery models.
- Develop with representatives of health care providers, managed care organizations, health care purchasers, and appropriate State agencies, a model for collaboration between families and health professionals.
- Provide training and guidance regarding care.
- Conduct outreach activities to the families, health professionals, schools, and other appropriate entities and individuals.
- Conduct outreach activities to the families, health professionals, schools, and other appropriate entities and individuals.
Outcomes:
The following six performance measures are the outcomes families will achieve through our services and support. They are the same six outcomes developed and used by the Maternal Child Health Bureau, in accordance with the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), which funds the Nevada F2F and Link Up Nevada Projects:
- Families of children with special health care needs will partner in decision-making at all levels and will be satisfied with the services they receive.
- Children with special health care needs will receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home.
- Children will be screened early and continuously for special health care needs.
- Families of children with special health care needs will have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need.
- Community-based service system will be organized so families can use them easily.
- Youth with special health care needs will receive services necessary to make transitions to all aspect of adult life, including adult health care, work and independence.
The Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) Program is a grant program funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Division of Services for Children with Special Needs (DSCSHN) under Grant Award H84MC08001. It was established by the Family Opportunity Act of 2005 as a part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171). This initiative was designed to address the President’s Health Care Reform efforts to enhance community-based care for Americans with Disabilities through fiscal year (FY) 2009. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-148) extended the F2F HICs through FY 2012.
More information about the Affordable Care Act is found at www.healthcare.gov.