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Childcare for Children with Complex Medical Needs: Linking the Medical Home
Overview
Childcare for Children with Complex Medical Needs: Linking the Medical Home is a project designed to develop and disseminate a model that will strengthen center-based childcare infrastructures for infants and toddlers with medically complex needs and disabilities.
The project's objectives are aimed at facilitating childcare access and enrollment for a population that has been excluded from attending childcare because of a their high level of special needs, policies, and/or funding constraints. Children enrolled in the project receive medical home services that are integrated into their childcare settings. Gains in social competence, medical home coordination, and family support are the main goals of the project.
Goals
- Promote successful inclusion of infants and toddlers with complex medical needs and disabilities into childcare centers.
- Make accommodations to early childhood programs for children with complex medical needs and disabilities to be able to attend childcare programs.
Highlights
The Medical Home for Children provides coordinated services from knowledgeable and supportive professionals. Care is:
- Accessible
- Family-centered
- Comprehensive
- Continuous
- Coordinated
- Compassionate
- Culturally sensitive
- A shared responsibility
Publications
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Contact
Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, UConn Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Phone: (860) 679.1500
E-mail: Bruder@nso1.uchc.edu
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