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Grant Opportunity: Family Impact Initiative for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Northeast Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is seeking a grantee to lead the Family Impact Initiative, aimed at improving systems of care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) in Northeast Pennsylvania. - Government Buyer: - Pennsylvania Department of Health - Bureau of Family Health, Division of Community Systems Development and Outreach - Scope and Services Requested: - Administration and implementation of system change activities to enhance community-based, family-focused care systems for CYSHCN across 10 counties - Key activities include: - Stakeholder coalition building and engagement - Needs assessment and system evaluation - Development and execution of at least five system change goals per year - Training, meetings facilitation, and sustainability planning - Participation in client satisfaction data collection and program monitoring - Focus areas: healthcare transition, screening, service accessibility, insurance, coordinated care, education, wellbeing, and emergency preparedness - Notable Requirements: - Formation of a steering committee with at least 25 stakeholders - Creation of a parent advisory committee with at least 15 family members - Demonstrated experience with CYSHCN and community systems change - Sustainability plan to ensure program continuation beyond the grant period - No specific OEMs or commercial vendors are named, as this is a grant for service delivery and system change, not procurement of goods.

Description

The Family Impact Initiative aims to support the development of community-based and family-focused systems of care for families of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). The program involves assembling coalitions of stakeholders, assessing community systems, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing strategies to build capacity for system change. The initiative focuses on improving service delivery systems to ensure CSHCN receive necessary support and resources. The Department of Health seeks to award one entity to implement this initiative across multiple counties in Northeast Pennsylvania, focusing on system change efforts in areas such as healthcare transition, screening, service accessibility, insurance, coordinated care, education, wellbeing, and emergency preparedness.

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