New Website: Children with Special Health Care Needs
You can find great resources and information for children with special health care needs on the new website, Program for Children with Special Health Care Needs, launched by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. The website features information about the Foundation's grantmaking process, along with reports, issue briefs, and the latest data on children with special health care needs. Resources for advocacy work and links to sites for families also are featured.
The newest report available on the site is Children with Special Health Care Needs in California: A Profile of Key Issues, which analyzes data from a national survey of parents. The findings indicate that California lags behind most other states in how its system of care supports this population of children.
The site also offers a range of newly posted data from kidsdata.org about children with special needs in the state.
The website is an integral part of the Foundation's Program on Children with Special Health Care Needs, which invests in projects that contribute toward achieving a high-performing, family-centered health care system. The new website also is a hub for the Foundation's California Advocacy Network for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which engages individuals and organizations in advocating for a better system of care for these vulnerable children.
E-mail Janis Connallon, manager of the Advocacy Network, at Janis.Connallon@lpfch.org with your ideas for resources or other information to add to the website.
Upcoming Workshop on Using Kidsdata.org in Your Work:
Join kidsdata.org and UCLA's HealthDATA program to learn how you can find and use data on children's health and well being. This free, one-day workshop will be offered in Los Angeles on Monday, March 18, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
At the workshop, which will be appropriate for beginning and intermediate data users, you'll learn how to formulate data questions, interpret results, export data for analysis, and use your findings in reports, presentations, proposals, and policy/program planning. Working directly with kidsdata.org, attendees will learn simple tips for obtaining data for every county, city, school district, and legislative district in the state.
These workshops are sponsored by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.
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