New Jersey

• Interview with the Newark School-Based Health Center Program
  The Newark School-Based Health Center Program is a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) located in Newark, New Jersey. The program's leadership shared the program's strategies and success on the implementation of team-based care with the National Center for Medical  Home Implementation (National Center).

• Interview with the Children's Medical Services and Advocacy Center
  The Children's Medical Services and Advocacy Center is a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) in New Jersey. The program's leadership shared its strategies and successes in the integration of behavioral health and primary care for vulnerable children and youth with the National Center for Medical Home Implementation (National Center).
  

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.

• New Jersey Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project
  Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program beneficiaries will be included in this project to integrating and coordinating care to improve population health in the context of medical home.
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Patient-Centered Pediatric Medical Home Program
  Benefiting over 100,000 pediatric patients, this program focuses on improving care coordination and quality outcomes for children while adequately paying clinicians for outcomes.

• New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield
  The New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to incorporate care coordination training for pediatric clinicians within pediatric medical homes.

• 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. Current projects in New Jersey include the following:
• Children's Medical Services and Advocacy Center
• Newark School-Based Health Center Program: Broader/Bolder Approach

Past Activities

• 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 New Jersey include the following:

• Trenton Loves Children: Home Visitor Project

• New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within New Jersey.

• Statewide Parent Advocacy Network
  The Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of New Jersey provides education, information, and peer support to families of children with special health care needs. Resources are available on this Web site in multiple languages.
• New Jersey Title V
  A profile of New Jersey's state Title V program, includes contact information for the Maternal and Child Health and the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Programs.
  
• New Jersey Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within New Jersey.
• New Jersey FamilyCare
  The Child Health Insurance Program of New Jersey; includes resources and information on how to enroll.
• MOM2MOM Helpline Program
  A 24 hours, 7 day per week helpline for parents in Essex and Union Counties of New Jersey for peer support and counseling as well as connection to community resources for children and youth with special health care needs.

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

• New Jersey Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in New Jersey 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, New Jersey 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, New Jersey 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 New Jersey Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in New Jersey that promote medical home implementation.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative New Jersey PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in New Jersey.