Healthy and Ready to Work National Resource Center

In concert with the goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the President’s New Freedom Initiative, and the Surgeon General’s Call for Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities (2005), the Healthy and Ready to Work (HRTW) National Resource Center provides leadership, resources, and knowledge to improve health, community participation, productivity and life for youth in transition.

Funding Source:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maine DHHS, Children with Special Health Needs

Funding Period:

May 1, 2006 – April 30, 2010

Contact Person(s):

Elizabeth DePoy, Project Evaluator
edepoy@maine.edu
207/581-1469 (V)
800/203-6957 (V/TTY)

Toni G. Wall, Principal Investigator
Director, Children with Special Health Needs
Division of Family Health, Maine DHHS
207/ 287-5350
toni.g.wall@maine.gov or toniwall@hrtw.org

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The HRTW National Resource Center’s work supports the following federal mandates:

• The New Freedom Initiative - The New Freedom Initiative is a comprehensive plan that represents an important step in working to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to learn and develop skills, engage in productive work, make choices about their daily lives and participate fully in community life.
• Solution iii.c: Action Plan for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Their Families
• Surgeon General’s Call for Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities (2005) - The 2005 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities: Calling You to Action highlights disability as a major public health issue.
• Healthy People 2010 - Goal 2: Eliminate Health Disparities - Chapter 6 Disabilities and Secondary Conditions: Promote the health of people with disabilities, prevent secondary conditions, and eliminate disparities between people with and without disabilities in the U.S. population.
• HRSA/MCHB’s Six Core National Performance Measures - States report annually on their progress toward achieving the targets they set for 18 National Performance Measures.
• Maine DHHS, Children with Special Health Needs - CSHN is a program that helps pay for medical care provided by specialists to eligible families, and offers assistance with coordination of care for infants, children and adolescents with special health needs.