Children with Special Health Needs Branch

CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH NEEDS BRANCH

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Children with Special Health Needs Branch (CSHNB) is working to assure that all children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) will reach optimal health, growth, and development, by improving access to a coordinated system of family-centered health care services and improving outcomes, through systems development, assessment, assurance, education, collaborative partnerships, and family support.

Goals for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs:

• Community-based services
• Access to medical home
• Adequate insurance
• Early continuous screening
• Transition to adulthood
• Families as partners

 PROGRAM AND SERVICES

Children and Youth with Special Health Needs Section promotes family-centered, community-based comprehensive, coordinated care for children and youth with special health care needs from 0-20 years.  This section includes the Children with Special Health Needs Program.

Early Intervention Section provides early intervention services for children age 0-3 years who are developmentally delayed, biologically at risk, or environmentally at risk.

Genomics Section promotes the prevention, detection, and treatment of genetic disorders, and provides genetics education for the professional and general community.

• Genetics Program
• Hawaii Birth Defects Program
• Newborn Hearing Screening Program
• Newborn Metabolic Screening Program

Healthy Child Care Hawaii

Hi‘ilei Developmental Screening Program

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

LEGISLATIVE WORKING GROUP
Early Language Working Group