Texas

• Interview with "Transition Health Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs"
  "Transition Health Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs" is a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program located in Houston, Texas. The program's medical director shared details about how the program facilitates successful transition from pediatric to adult health care in community pediatric practices.
  
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Offers New, Coordinated Health Care Plan for Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs and Families
  Starting November 2016, pediatric Medicaid beneficiaries in Texas will be eligible to receive coordinated medical, behavioral, and social services through the STAR Kids health plan.
  
  

Current Activities

• Medical Home Chapter Champions Program on Asthma, Allergy, and Anaphylaxis
  This program supports the facilitation and dissemination of best practices, evidence-based guidelines, and resources in asthma, allergy, and anaphylaxis for clinicians throughout the state.
• Texas Medical Home Work Group at the Texas Department of State Health Services
  This statewide work group is led by the Title V Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program. The work group meets on a quarterly basis via teleconference and supports the vision that all children and youth in Texas, including children with special health care needs, will have a medical home that provides accessible, family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective services.
• Texas Primary Care and Health Home Summit
  An annual statewide conference focuses specifically on expanding access to medical home for adults and children in Texas. 

 Past Activities

• Statewide Association for Regional Medical Home AdvanCement
  A 3-year projected funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau with the goal of building a statewide infrastructure for maternal and child health, including access to coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home.
• Project DOCC of Houston
  Developed by family advocates, this project provided pediatric resident physicians with comprehensive understanding of challenges and barriers faced by families in caring for children and youth with special health care needs.
• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
  With funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, these community-based projects address health disparities and implement components of the pediatric medical home. Past projects in Texas include:
• The GOALS Program
• Babies First! in Dallas: A Healthy Steps Approach
• Montwood Wellness Center
• PediPlace
• Campus Care Centers School-based Health Project
• Health Education Literacy Partnership
• Pediatric Clinic for Denton County
• Project First Step
• A Family-focused Strategy for Reducing Premature and Unprotected Sexual Activity Among Minor Youth in School-based Health Clinics

• Texas Pediatric Society
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Texas.

• Texas Parent to Parent
  The Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Texas provides education, information, and peer support to families of children with special health care needs.
• Texas Parent to Parent Medical Home Toolkit
  This free resource provides resources for families interested in partnering with their pediatric practices to enhance provision of care within a medical home model.
  

• Texas Title V
  A profile of Texas' state Title V program, includes contact information for the Maternal and Child Health and the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program.
• Texas Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Texas.
• Texas Department of State Health Services Medical Home Information
  This state Web site provides information for Texas families and clinician on the definition of medical home and contact information for questions related to same in Texas.

• Texas 2014 CHIP Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides key information about Texas' Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at a time when Texas was implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization and the Affordable Care Act.

• Texas Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in Texas eligible, enrolled, and unenrolled in Medicaid.
• State at-a-glance Chartbook on Coverage and Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
  This chartbook provides state specific data on select indicators of health coverage and financing for children and youth with special health care needs.
• Medical Home Data Portal, Texas State Profile, CYSHCN
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), 2009/2010.
• Medical Home Data Portal, Texas Profile, All Children
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children's Health, 2007.
• National Academy for State Health Policy Texas Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in Texas that promote medical home implementation.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Texas PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Texas.
• Navigate Life Texas
  Launched by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), this Web site is designed to offer support, inspiration, resources, and links to services available for families of children and youth with special health care needs.  The website is available in English and Spanish.