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Physicians, other health care providers, and parents are core members of the medical home improvement team. As such the websites listed offer references and resources for children and families, physicians and health care providers in support of their work raising and parenting, and treating and preparing for life, children with special health care needs.

www.childhealthdata.org
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health allows users to search and display charts and tabular findings from individual survey items as well as derived key child health measures from these valuable data sources.  The user-friendly site can even display state profiles, rankings, and information for key demographic groups (e.g., child's age, sex, race and ethnicity, household income, insurance status and type), all free-of-charge and available 24 hours a day.

www.crotchedmountain.org
Crotched Mountain offers a full range of education, clinical, rehabilitation and residential support services for children and adults with disabilities from New Hampshire, the rest of New England and New York at its rehabilitation center in Greenfield, NH and in many community locations.

Crotched Mountain is dedicated to serving individuals with disabilities and their families, embracing personal choice and development, and building communities of mutual support.

www.medicalhomeinfo.org
Click on community pediatrics to find information on the National Center for Medical Home Initiatives. This site has a wealth of information and links for families and providers.

www.nichq.org
The websites of the National Initiative for Child Health Quality (www.nichq.org) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org) provide exciting glimpses of the growing importance of quality improvement as a vehicle for change and the “redesign” of primary care that may result. While these four sites can help you enter an electronically world rich in relevant resources a few other sites may offer the focus you are looking for:.

www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
A well-designed site which brings together diverse high quality information for parents of children with chronic conditions including condition specific information useful for handouts.

www.familyvoices.org
The homepage of the national advocacy organization Family Voices , this site provides a wealth of information for families and providers.

http://medhome.med.utah.edu
Offering information, tools, and resources for Primary Care Physicians to enhance their ability to care for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and to provide a Medical Home for all of their patients.

http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/dsccroot/providers/providers.asp
Illinois has a training manual and some great resources including the "Primer on the Illinois Medical Home Model for Physicians" on th eir state Title V  website at http://internet.dscc.uic.edu/dsccroot/providers/providers.asp; click on the Medical Home logo in the upper left hand corner of the Providers Section to link to the Primer. The first two components of the Illinois Medical Home Model define what it means when families say they have a Medical Home and and what it means when physicians say they provide a Medical Home. The third component describes the activities occuring in Illinois to promote the Medical Home Model. The primer includes references, video clips, PowerPoint presentations and many handouts that are downloadable. Also included is the 2nd edition of the UIC-DSCC Medical Home CME Monograph for community pediatricians and family physicians that was published on May 1, 2004. The entire 70 page document is downloadable as a PDF file

www.improvingchroniccare.org
Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC)

www.mchb.hrsa.gov
This is the home pageof the United States Material and Child Health Bureau

www.partoparvt.org
This is the website of Parent to Parent of Vermont, a national leader in matching parents to other parents and matching pediatric medical residents to “family faculty” offering their expertise in the education and preparation of future pediatricians. This site offers great national links for families.