Family to Family Center
MISSION
The mission of the project is to implement a Family to Family Health Information and Education Center (F2FC) in Mississippi. The center will be family-focused and family-managed by a parent of a child with special health care needs. The project will empower families of children with special health care needs as partners in decision-making at all levels.
GOALS
- Provide superior educational opportunities to families, providers, state agency staff, and others directly or indirectly involved in the system of services
- Identify and accurately describe the needs of families and providers
- Provide a forum for families and providers
- Directly affect the accuracy and quality of the data collected
- Integrate the philosophy of family-centered care, family/professional partnerships, and cultural competence
- Become a community of learners by linking with community and state partners and other projects with similar objectives and goals
- Facilitate the development of a dynamic system that is responsive the ongoing and evolving needs of families throughout the state
OBJECTIVES
- Develop and disseminate needed health care information to families and providers
- Identify gaps in health care information for families
- Provide education and training opportunities for families and providers Extend the capacity of the F2FC by networking with other family resource center programs
- Conduct annual needs assessment
- Collect and analyze information from families regarding family and system impact and the Healthy People 2010 agenda for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
LIFE INVOLVEMENT
- Contracts with the Institute for Disability Studies to employ the Parent Coordinator. The Parent Coordinator is housed at the Children’s Medical Program Resource Library at the Jackson Medical Mall
- Provide Peer Support and information and referral to parents utilizing CMP’s clinic’s throughout the state.
- Establish parent support networks in underserved areas of the state.
- Assist IDS and CMP in their collection of data from parents. Data is used to determine underserved areas and services needed by families of children and youth with special health care needs.
Sponsored by The Institute for Disability Studies through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).