Integrated Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Initiative #2

The summary for the Integrated Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Initiative #2 grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Health Resources and Services Administration, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Integrated Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Initiative #2: The purpose of the National Resource Center for Inclusive Community Integrated Services is to provide national leadership to the Division of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (DSCSHN) and its constituents on achieving full implementation of the President's New Freedom Initiative (NFI). In order to reduce barriers to community living for people with disabilities, the NFI charges HRSA/MCHB with "developing and implementing a plan to achieve appropriate community-based service systems for children and youth with special health care needs and their families". The National Resource Center for Community Integrated Services is specifically responsible for the component of the plan that assures that services provided at the community level are inclusive and easy to use. To fulfill this responsibility the National Resource Center will: (1) identify and work with major national public and private community development initiatives t! o integrate children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN); (2) facilitate linkages between inclusive community development initiatives and State Title V Programs and other public and private constituents; (3) develop and maintain a Web site linked to relevant community development initiatives; (4) develop and disseminate materials on inclusion of CYSHCN; (4) develop and implement a community recognition program that focuses on successful community integration models; and (5) collect, analyze, and expand the current body of evidence-based data on the process and outcomes of integrating community systems.