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The CCSHCN's 2014 Maternal & Child Health Block Grant Summary draft is available for review.

In order to help with our planning, we are asking for your feedback. A survey is open until May 17, 2013 at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014MCH.

Your input will help us shape our program planning.

If you are a young person with a special need aged 14 - 21, or the parent or guardian of of a young person, the Commission would like to get your input on transition issues. In order to determine what you need, we've opened a survey asking about the types of transition plans teens and young adults, and their families, are making.

The survey can be reached at this link. You do not need to receive Commission services to participate.

The Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs has received two federal grants for the coming year.

Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the commission the KY Integrated Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (KISC) grant. This is a $300,000 per year grant which will be in effect for three years. The grant will support community partnership for transitions, medical homes, and family to family with a special focus on the 18-21 population.

The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program received a HRSA-MCHB grant for $300,000 per year that is renewable for up to two years. This grant will fund a team of parents and professionals as participants in the National Initiative for Children’s Health Care Quality (NICHQ). This will also include the KISC grant. NICHQ is an independent organization focusing on improving the system of healthcare for all children and strives to increase the quality of care children receive with an emphasis on increasing medical homes.

These grants will support the commission's mission to enhance the quality of life for Kentucky's children with special health care needs through direct service, leadership, education and collaboration.