The
National Medical Home Autism Initiative, founded as a cooperative
agreement by the federal Maternal Child Health Bureau, is a national
technical assistance, resource and advocacy project designed to
promote methods that will improve the capacity of the medical home
and early intervention community to identify, appropriately serve
and integrate children with autism into their communities.
Principal
Investigator William Schwab, MD, from the UW Madison Department
of Family Medicine, pediatric consultant Mark Rosenberg, MD, and
the project team will be working at a national level with the American
Academy of Pediatrics-National Center of Medical Home Initiatives
for CSHCN, the Federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee,
State CSHCN medical home learning collaborative projects and other
national agencies/organizations to assist in the coordination of
a national perspective on the issues and challenges regarding autism
and medical homes initiatives.
PURPOSE
The primary
purpose of the project is to identify and demonstrate how principles
of the medical home can be applied to achieve early identification
and intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders.
GOALS
Goal 1:
To develop partnerships with primary care practices that promote
developmental surveillance of all children within the medical home
practice - giving particular attention to referral and coordination
of services for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The partner sites provide
hands on experience and information to NMHAI regarding strategies
that successfully improve the quality of services available to their
patients as the identified key functions are incorporated into and
/or reviewed by the practice
Objective 1A:
To identify and support a minimum of five primary care practices
in order to apply concepts of the medical home to promote developmental
surveillance, referral to intervention and coordination of services
for children with ASD.
Objective 1B:
To coordinate our efforts with other national and state level medical
home and/ or autism (ASD) initiatives and organizations
GOAL 2:
To enhance the capacity of providers and consumers, throughout the
nation, to understand and apply the principles of the medical home
and service options for children with autism and their families
Objective 2A:
To create an infrastructure to enhance the capacity of primary care
providers and consumers to understand and apply the medical home
principles and medical services necessary to meet the needs of children/
individuals with autism and their families.
Objective 2B:
To develop resources for primary care providers that include strategic
reports, training options and technical assistance strategies. To
enhance the capacity of national, state and local programs that
support and assist service providers and consumers in the development
of primary care medical home services for children with autism and
their families.
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