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Family-to-Family Health Information Center
The MA Family-to-Family Health Information Center, a project of Mass Family Voices, is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs. This parent-run center provides free technical assistance to families with children and youth with special health needs, and others. Contact us for information about:
  • Masshealth and other health care financing options
  • Health care services and supports for children and youth with special health needs and their families
  • Information about collaborating with others to address barriers to health care
  • Participating in opportunities to improve systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs
Learn more about the MA F2F HIC.

Massachusetts Family Voices
Mass Family Voices @ Federation for Children with Special Needs is a parent-run, state chapter of Family Voices, a national grassroots network of families, friends and professional partners brought together by a common concern for children and youth with special health care needs.

What's Happening

heart graphicVisions of Community ConferenceVisions of Community 2008

The MA Family-to-Family Health Information Center is sponsoring two workshops at the Federation’s Annual Visions of Community Conference on March 1, 2008. Visit the Visions of Community website for information, registration, and to learn about the other 28 workshops.

Parents as Partners in Patient Safety
This workshop will provide strategies, tips and techniques for patients and families to become partners in patient safety. The presenter will draw on effective ideas from inpatient and ambulatory projects to stimulate discussion on how patients and parents have contributed to safety and quality improvement efforts in pediatric healthcare.

Public & Private Health Financing Issues for Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Learn how to make sense of MassHealth (the Massachusetts medicaid program), understand program eligibilty & services as the sole form of insurance or as a coordination of benefits with private health insurance coverage. The presenters will discuss advocacy strategies to maximize benefits and address health insurance issues for youth in transition.

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The MA Family-to-Family Health Information Center offers free learning and networking opportunities from the convenience of your home or office. If you were unable to dial in for the last few calls, visit our Topical Call page to listen to the playbacks.


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Healthy Eating Teens don’t always listen to their parents, but they will listen to each other. Encourage your adolescent to learn more about his or her food choices, how fast foods stack up, and to use the ‘tell-a-friend’ feature of the teen-oriented website, smartmouth.org.


 

Resource Highlight

The Framingham Special Education Parent Advisory Council recently hosted a Summer Camp Expo. Visit their website for wonderful handouts, information and links to the camps that attended. Information also available in Portuguese and Spanish.