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Health Care Program For Children With Special Needs (HCP)
Vision: All Colorado children with special health care needs will be valued, integrated and thriving.
Mission: To ensure that children with special health care needs have the opportunity to grow, learn and develop to their highest individual potential.
Population Served: The Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs serves Colorado children and youth with special needs age birth to 21.
The Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs (HCP) is a resource for families, health care providers, and communities. HCP seeks to ensure access to integrated, family-centered, culturally competent, community-based programs and services for families with children and youth with special needs. HCP works closely with state agency partners and local public health agencies to implement three core program components:
Definition of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
HCP defines children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) as “those who have, or are at increased risk for having, a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children [and youth] generally.”
(Maternal and Child Health Bureau McPherson, et al., 1998).
How Can HCP help?
The Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs may help families with:
- Finding a doctor or other health care provider
- A developmental screening about a child’s development
- Helpful programs and resources in the community
- Health-related resources and information
- Family support groups
- Answers to questions
- …And more!
Six National Maternal and Child Health Performance Measures: MCH has identified core optimal outcomes for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. These six national outcome measures guide program efforts:
- Families will be partners in decision-making at all levels and be satisfied with the services they receive.
- Children with special health care needs will receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a Medical Home.
- Children with special health care needs will have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need.
- Children will be screened early and continuously for special health needs and receive timely follow up to definitive diagnosis and clinical management.
- Community-based services will be organized so families can use them easily.
- Youth with special health care needs will have the services necessary to transition to all aspects of adult life including adult health care, work, and independence.
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State Office: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
State Staff: Jennie Munthali, Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs Unit Manager
Angela (Angie) Goodger, HCP Specialty Clinic Coordinator
Jane Gerberding, RN, Program Manager/Consultant, Systems Development for CSHCN
Annie Whitehouse, RN, Program Manager/Consultant, HCP Care Coordination
Dale Knochenmus, HCP Data Coordinator/Help Desk
Laura Zuniga, HCP Specialty Clinic Data
Eileen T. Forlenza, Family Leadership Initiative Director
Find your local public health agency: Local Public Health Agencies
Map of Colorado Counties showing HCP Care Coordination and the locations of the HCP Regional Specialty Clinics:
HCP Specialty Clinics with Care Coodination
To contact a HCP Specialty Clinic Coordinator:
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The Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs has three main components:
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The Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs (HCP) is administered through the public health system at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as part of Maternal and Child Health and the Children and Youth Branch in Prevention Services Division.
Maternal and Child Health emphasizes the importance of delivering primary prevention and early intervention services at multiple levels with the focus and emphasis on strategies targeting population-based and infrastructure levels in order to have the greatest impact on the MCH population.
Colorado state contracts are signed annually with local public health agencies to support local HCP services for children with special health care needs at the county level. Local HCP services include HCP Care Coordination, HCP Specialty Care Clinics and medical home systems development. State level activities include support for development and maintenance of comprehensive health service systems, standards/guidelines, training, data, planning and evaluation.
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Early Intervention Colorado (EI)
Newborn Screening Follow-up Program
Newborn Screening Follow-up Program
My Baby’s Hearing (website with information for parents):
Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind:
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