Medical Home
An approach to providing primary care that emphasizes proactive identification of special health care needs, comprehensive care coordination, partnership between providers and families (or youth) around health decision-making, and collaboration with other community providers, including schools. The [...]
Consumer Assistance
Providing the resources necessary to help education and provide accurate information to consumers who are making difficult health care decisions. Consumer assistance may be provided by state insurance departments, independent state consumer assistance agencies, or non-profit organizations. For more [...]
Deciding Together Guide Instructions
The Deciding Together Guide provides a clear, step-by-step team approach to facilitate dialogue between service coordinators and families using a family-centered, collaborative decision-making framework. This manual provides instructions for the team regarding how to facilitate each of the steps, fa [...]
Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing
Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing was written by K. Jane Lee, MD, a member of Team Wisconsin. As a pediatric critical care physician and an ethicist, Lee was accustomed to caring for children with a range of serious conditions and disabilities, and felt comfortable helping families navigate [...]
Hopes and Dreams, Family Vision Statements, and Actionable Goals
This document for families describes the differences among hopes and dreams, family vision statements, and actionable goals, and describes where each fit in the shared plan of care.
Webinar: The Impact of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) on Families Raising Children with Disabilities
The 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) provided temporary enhancements to the existing CTC for the tax years 2021 and 2022, including increasing the credit’s maximum value and removing the minimum income criterion for refundability. As a result, even households with no income were eligible for t [...]
Full Report: The Impact of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) on Families Raising Children with Disabilities
The 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) provided temporary enhancements to the existing CTC for the tax years 2021 and 2022, including increasing the credit’s maximum value and removing the minimum income criterion for refundability. As a result, even households with no income were eligible for t [...]
Agreement and Diagnostic Accuracy of Vision Screening in Children by Teachers, Community Eye-Health Workers and Vision Technicians
An article from Clinical and Experimental Optometry comparing the accuracy of vision screening by community health workers, teachers, and vision technicians in a sub-district in India. The authors report that there is not a significant difference between the accuracy of trained community health work [...]
Per Diems in Polio Eradication: Perspectives From Community Health Workers and Officials
An article from the American Journal of Public Health. Reports and analyzes the differing attitudes towards per diems among health officials and community health workers. Suggests that further engaging in conversations with CHWs around this issue could spark significant shifts in thinking about labo [...]
Uganda Trauma-Informed Care Collaboration with Makerere University
Through a collaboration with Makerere University’s Social Work program, CISWH offers trauma-informed training for faculty, staff, and social workers from non-governmental organizations and community agencies working with refugees, survivors of war, and human trafficking (from Congo, Somalia, B [...]
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