National Centers
Champions for Inclusive Communities (ChampionsInC) is a national center
established "to achieve appropriate Community-Based Service Systems" by HRSA's
Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Each national center focuses on 1 of 6 performance measures set by the MCHB.
The 6 National Centers:
Family Voices
Performance Measure 1: Family Participation
Family Voices promotes family participation and satisfaction via a network of 40,000 families and friends, a volunteer coordinator in each state, and 10 regional coordinators. Family Voices serves as a national clearinghouse for information and education about ways to assure and improve health care for children with disabilities and chronic conditions.
AAP Medical Home
Performance Measure 2: Medical Home
The National Center for Medical Home Initiatives for CYSHCNChildren and Youth with Special Health Care Needs provides support to physicians, families, and other providers caring for children with special health care needs so that they have access to a medical home.
National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM)
Performance Measure 3: Screening
The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management supports early and continuous screening and works to ensure that all infants (newborns) and toddlers with hearing loss are identified as early as possible and provided with timely and appropriate audiological, educational, and medical intervention.
The Catalyst Center
Performance Measure 4: Adequate Insurance
The Catalyst Center is a national center dedicated to improving health care insurance and financing for CYSHCNChildren and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. The Center partners with a broad range of stakeholders to: Expand health insurance coverage of CYSHCNChildren and Youth with Special Health Care Needs across the country; close the gaps faced by underinsured families; develop and disseminate innovative financing strategies at the community, state and national levels; and enhance knowledge and collaboration among key stakeholder groups around financing issues.
ChampionsInC (That's Us!)
Performance Measure 5: Community-based Systems
Champions for Inclusive Communities (ChampionsInC) is a national leadership and resource center designed to support states and communities in organizing services so families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) can use them easily and families are satisfied.
The implementation of community-based service systems is a key component of Healthy People 2010 as stated in its Objective 16.23: To increase the states and territories that have service systems for children with special health care needs.
Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW)
Performance Measure 6: Transition to Adulthood
What's health got to do with transition? Everything! HRTW provides information and connections to health and transition expertise nationwide--from those in the know, doing the work, and living it! The HRTW National Center's web site focuses on understanding systems, access to quality health care, increasing the involvement of youth, and the website also includes "HRTW Tools & Tips."
National Center for Cultural Competence
Cultural Competence is not a performance measure, but is a guiding principle across all performance measures.
NCCC supports family participation and satisfaction and strives to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service-delivery systems.