Maine Works for Youth! Maine's Healthy & Ready to Work Initiative

About Maine Works for Youth!

(MWFY!)

~ A completed project ~

The Maine Works for Youth! project is working to achieve the six core outcome indicators of Achieving and Measuring Success for Children with Special Health Care Needs by 2010 (see below), advanced by the Maternal Child Health Bureau through continuing and enhancing the statewide activities of the collaborative partnership developed in the Maine Adolescent Transition Partnership.

Maine Works for Youth! is addressing the challenges that youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities face as they: continue to exit public schools poorly prepared for life as adults; age out of pediatric health care systems without adequate transition to medical homes; and face lives of poverty on SSI. Services to address these needs remain fragmented and scarce. Just as critically, youth and their families are not typically engaged in affecting and influencing systems changes and reform efforts related to issues directly impacting their lives.

Funding Source:

Supported in part by Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), and the Maine Bureau of Health, under CFDA # 93.110D

Abstract

• Additional grant information, including objectives for reaching the Six Core Outcome Indicator goals.

Six Core Outcome Indicators

• Goal 1 - All youth with special health care needs will receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home.

• Goal 2 - All families with special health care needs will have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need.

• Goal 3 - All youth will be screened early and continuously for special health care needs.

• Goal 4 - Services for youth with special health care needs and their families will be organized in ways that families can use them easily.

• Goal 5 - Families of youth with special health care needs will partner in decision making at all levels and will be satisfied with the services they receive.

• Goal 6 - All youth with special health care needs will receive the services necessary to make appropriate transitions to all aspects of adult life, including adult health care, work and independence.

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