Special Projects
Strengthening Oregon's Community Services (SOCS) grant
We received grant funding for this new initiative beginning in May of 2005 and lasting for three years.
Vision: Families, youth and children with special health needs involved in decision making to create better access and integration of services.
Purpose: To find a community-based model that gives voice to families of youth and children with special health needs, provides a forum in which health care providers can hear family concerns, and promotes a partnership that creates effective community change.
Youth Transition Learning Collaborative
For our Youth Transition Learning Collaborative, we have communicated with system leaders at the state level and formed a faculty of national and local leaders, provided written and verbal information about promising practices and instructed teams in a improvement model tested by Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). We have recruited teams of providers most interested in successful transition and families who want to see a difference. For more information, visit our Youth Transition Learning Collaborative webpage.
Genetics
OCCYSHN is also working with Oregon's Department of Health Services to implement Oregon's Strategic Plan for Genetics and Public Health. Current activities focus on increasing public awareness of genetic services and resources in Oregon, increasing health care provider understanding of genetic concepts and how they relate to health and health care, increasing insurance coverage and reimbursement for genetic services and supports, increasing availability of genetic services outside of the Portland metro area, and decreasing cultural barriers to genetic services.
A new grant called the Western States Genetic Services Collaborative is addressing Genetics Services in Oregon. To find out more about this grant click on the above link.
