Current Contracts

Washington State Department of Health, CSHCN Contract
An ongoing contract between the Center and the Washington State Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs Program.


Current Grant Activities

Childhood Chronic Illness: Enhancing Family Capabilities
A grant from the Association for Healthcare Research and Quality to strengthen abilities of parents to manage the complexities of their child's chronic illness thereby improving their own and their child's health.

Helping Families and Health Care Providers: Increasing Awareness and Access to Resources

This grant from the Jordan Fund supports programs to increase awareness of and access to resources developed by the Center for Children with Special Needs for parents and providers.


Past Grant & Contract Activities

Bridges not Borders: Achieving Quality through Telemedicine
This grant from the Amgen Foundation (Washington) provided educational programs for parents and caregivers of children with special needs. Sessions focused on clinical and psychosocial aspects of a variety of chronic illnesses, and were offered via video teleconferencing to sites in Washington State.

Care Management for CSHCN: Addressing and Financing an Unmet Need
A grant from the Maternal Child Health Bureau to develop, implement and evaluate a quality care management program for children with special health care needs in a large private health plan and in a select Medicaid population.

Harbor Outreach Program for Children
This grant from the E. K. and Lillian F. Bishop Foundation supports bringing clinical and educational resources from Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, Washington to Grays Harbor County, Washington.

Primary Care Oral Health Demonstration Project
A grant from the Washington Dental Service Foundation to improve access to dental care for infants and children at high risk for dental disease by integrating oral health screening and prevention methods into primary care visits.

Promoting Self Care in Youth with HIV/AIDS
This grant from the Foster Foundation promotes self management. The project team developed strategies to assess readiness for self care through motivational interviewing. Understanding HIV and learning how to disclose to others about HIV is the focus of the intervention.

Empowering Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs: Harnessing the Power of the Internet
A grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to train parent coordinators in outreach to parents of children with special needs in using the internet to find health information.

Injury Prevention for Children with Special Needs
This project adapted current information available for health care providers on injury prevention to identify safety tips for children with chronic conditions and disabilities and their families.