Family to Family Health Information Center

Wyoming Family to Family Health Information Center provides families of children and youth with special health care needs greater access to evidence-based and cost-effective health information, family supports, and training in order to promote optimal health and patient engagement in health care decision making.

All information, training, family support, professional education, and advocacy is facilitated through a family-professional partnership that allows families, children, and youth with special health care needs to increase their ability to make appropriate health decisions to improve their quality of life and be satisfied with the information and care received.

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ECHO for Families

ECHO for Families is a community that provides opportunities for learning, advocacy, and mentorship with families that have a child with developmental disabilities, autism, or other special healthcare needs.

ECHO for Families

Learn the Signs. Act Early.

Act Early ECHO provides information and resources about current and emerging knowledge and evidence-based promising practices about the four phases of early identification.

Act Early

ECHO Host Site Leaders

ECHO for Families Host Site Leaders play a vital role in bringing families with children with disabilities together in their community. They host an in-person location for families to watch an ECHO session together, provide lunch, foster connection and peer support, and offer valuable local resources for families.

Host Site Leaders

Family to Family Mini-Grants

Wyoming Family to Family Health Information Center mini-grants provide funding to support organizations who provide support services to families and children with special health care needs across Wyoming. These awards help organizations in building and maintaining positive, healthy relationships within their family programs and within their communities. Read more about the 2023-2024 grant recipients and their work.

2023-2024 Grant Recipients

 

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Technology Available for Telehealth Appointments

Technology is available for Wyoming families offset the costs of technology and data for their children's telehealth medical appointments.

Telehealth is the use of technology to provide healthcare at a distance. This usually takes the form of video visits, but it can also include remote patient monitoring or phone calls. Telehealth visits are similar in many ways to in-person appointments.

Qualifying families will be provided with a Samsung tablet and 60 days of service.

Criteria for Wyoming families to participate:

  • Participate in 2 online training sessions (via Zoom)

  • Demonstrated need (child with special healthcare needs, upcoming therapy sessions and/or medical appointments that could be completed via Telehealth)

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Lost Medicaid Coverage?

For more information click the buttons below for graphics on hearings, appeals, agency help and more.

 

Medicaid Graphics (English):

https://www.uwyo.edu/wind/_files/docs/F2F/medicaidcoverage/medicaidgraphicsenglish.pdf

 

Medicaid Graphics (Spanish):

https://www.uwyo.edu/wind/_files/docs/F2F/medicaidcoverage/medicaidgraphicsspanish.pdf

Health Care Decision

Being a decision-maker for your own healthcare is important. Families and healthcare providers want children to become good decision-makers. For some children this takes more support, practice, and some special tools. Learning this skill should begin in childhood and continue into adulthood.

This guide, Skills and Strategies for Health Care Decision-Making with Children, and its resources help families and healthcare providers support childrento learn the skills they need. Getting ready for a visit to the doctor, dentist, or other medical person is step one. Being at your appointment is step two. Knowing what to do next, after your appointment, is step three. We want to help with all three steps.We often think about what a child should do at a certain age. But every child is different and learns in different ways. This tool uses stages of skill development instead of ages.

Download (PDF) Skills and Strategies for Health Care Decision-Making with Children

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