Idaho Parents Unlimited, Inc.

The Family To Family Health Information Center at Idaho Parents Unlimited provides these services statewide.

Family To Family Health Information Centers (F2F-HIC) are established to provide information and assistance to families of children and youth with special health care needs.  Idaho Parents Unlimited is the F2F-HIC for Idaho.

Family To Family Project Purpose

Families with children and youth who have special health care needs need help with the numerous problems they encounter.  The Family To Family project assists families with those problems, which include:

1. Finding payment for medical care
2. Obtaining help navigating public health care financial problems
3. Seeking dialogue with other parents in similar situations
4. Advocating for their child
5. Looking for information to find community resources
6. Linking to an established clearing house of information about health care issues
7. Obtaining one to one assistance finding information and getting referrals for specific health problems
8. Locating and attending workshops and obtaining materials about related health care issues, including information tailored to assist youth and parents in transition to adulthood
9. Collaborating with Idaho's Family Voices and the national network of Family Voices, which are the technical assistance arms of  F 2 F
10. Gaining empowerment to make changes in established federal, state, and local governing systems

The Family To Family Health Information Center at Idaho Parents Unlimited provides these services statewide.

The Maternal and Child Health Library, located at Georgetown University, includes knowledge about caring for children and youth with special health care needs. It offers a selection of current, high-quality resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at developing systems of care that are family-centered, community-based, coordinated, and culturally competent. A separate section lists resources for families. The final part of the knowledge path presents resources that address specific aspects of care and development, such as advocacy, early intervention and education, financing services, rehabilitation, screening, and transition. This knowledge path for health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, educators, researchers, and families will be updated periodically. For more information go to http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_cshcn.html

A leader in health policy and communications, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies.http://www.kff.org/