Medical Home

The mission of the National Center of Medical Home Initiatives is to work in cooperation with federal agencies, particularly the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), to ensure that children with special needs have access to a medical home. The National Center provides support to physicians, families, and other medical and non-medical providers who care for children and youth with special needs.

Through the National Center, physicians, parents, administrators, and other health care professionals have access to educational, resource, and advocacy materials, guidelines for care, evaluation tools, and technical assistance.

Medical Home Grants

The Medical Home Grants are to promote access to ongoing comprehensive care through a medical home for all children with special health care needs (CSHCN). This page contains a list of past and present MCHB Medical Home Grantees and their project abstracts. Grant initiatives include:

* Medical Home Implementation through Community-Based, Primary Care Practices

* Subspecialty Capacity-Building

* Early Identification and Intervention for Children with Autism

* Statewide Medical Home Development Grants

Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Grants

To help pediatricians achieve the goal of increasing the number of medical homes for children with special health care needs, the CATCH program funds projects that investigate ways in which physicians can create medical homes for children with special health care needs within their practices and/or communities.

This program supports pediatricians in planning and implementation of community-based child health initiatives. Six-month grants of up to $10,000 (up to $3,000 for resident grants) are awarded each year on a competitive basis.

Medical Home Funding Opportunities

This section provides daily updates of funding announcements. The list includes current funding opportunities related to a variety of child and family health issues. You will also find information concerning Fundraising/Nonprofit Resources, Maternal and Child Health Bureau Grants and CATCH grants.

Below is information on funding opportunities from the Academy and other organizations, as well as links to other funding key contacts and resources.

AAP Department of Community Pediatrics Grant/Project Search www.aap.org/commpeds/grantsdatabase/grantsdb.cfm

Whether you're looking for information on lessons learned on a grant topic or grants that have taken place in your state. This database is a great resource of archived previously funded grant projects in the Department of Community Pediatrics, including:

• The CATCH Program
• The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
• The Reaching Children: Building Systems of Care SCHIP Outreach Program

AAP Department of Community Pediatrics Funding Opportunities & Resources

Learn more about the Community Access to Child Health Program (CATCH) that offers funding opportunities for CATCH Planning Grants, CATCH Implementation Grants, and CATCH Visiting Professorships; the Healthy Tomorrows Partnerships for Children Program (HTPCP); Funding Resources by State; and Fundraising/Nonprofit Resources.

Grants.Gov

This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov, is a key part of President Bush's electronic government, or E-Gov, initiative and includes information from grant-making agencies across the federal government.

You can also sign up to receive grants announcements from the Federal Grants Opportunities (FGO) site. After subscribing, you will receive announcements of both new grants and modifications of existing grant announcements.

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