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WEBSITE:www.medicine.uiowa.edu/hrtw/ or www.e-epg.info/ [Project Overview] [Contacts] [Abstract] PROJECT OVERVIEW: Iowa’s Healthy and Ready to Work project demonstrates the efficacy of providing a family medical home model that incorporates Telemedicine/Telehealth training, and also includes: coordinated care by specially trained project staff; expanded use of the Youth Advisory Committee; services integrated into University of Iowa Health Care; and a strong private sector employer strategy. CONTACTS: Sarah Renner, Project Coordinator, Healthy & Ready to
Work-Iowa Sarah Renner has more than 25 years experience concerning the public health and welfare concerns of children and families. Her background is in education and mental health counseling. Sarah was raised in a family with an older brother born with mental retardation. With family support and advocacy, he was one of the first students with a cognitive disability to graduate from public high school in Iowa and he has been competitively employed for more than 35 years. Sarah’s background includes educational program development and community development. Much of her work has focused on helping groups function more effectively and collaboratively to achieve shared goals. She also manages the Adolescent Living Well with a Disability project of the University of Iowa, Center for Disabilities and Development. Sarah received her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and graduate degree from Iowa State University. EXPERTISE: Education, mental health, inclusive community activities and competitive employment. Jack L. Hillyard, Director, Healthy & Ready to Work Iowa Mr. Hillyard is currently the Project Director of Iowa’s Healthy and Ready to Work initiative funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, focusing on children and youth with special health care needs who are approaching adulthood and making the transition from pediatric to adult health care and post-secondary education and/or employment. He also is Project Director of Iowa’s State Partnership Initiative, funded by the Social Security Administration. Jack holds a Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University with an emphasis in healthcare administration and a Bachelor of Social Work from Missouri Western State College. EXPERTISE: Employment, benefits, partnerships with business, economic
freedom, strategic planning, systems change advocacy, economic and community
development, human resource management and policy formulation. MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
PROBLEM: GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: GOAL I: Develop a medical home that effectively transitions YSHCN to
the adult health care system. METHODOLOGY: Recruit the first “pilot” medical practice in Waterloo to work with the HRTW Facilitation Team building medical homeness. Accept referrals from a variety of clinics, programs, and/or agencies. Contractual arrangements with the Iowa Retail Federation allow HRTW participants acquire employment skills and experiences. Similarly, contractual arrangements with Hackett Solutions enable the HRTW team to receive consultation on specific staff development issues such as best practices for YSHCN youth-involvement, youth centric practices, etc. EVALUATION: EXPERIENCE TO DATE: Keywords: Access to Health Care, Adolescent Health Programs, Adolescents with Disabilities, Care Coordination, Children with Special Health Care Needs, Clinics, Community Based Health Services, Community Development, Employers, Families, Health Professionals, Interdisciplinary Teams, Medical Home, Parents, Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities, Specialized Care. [Articles] [Products]
[Interagency] [Sponsored Meetings] [Presentations] To receive a copy contact: Sarah Renner, Sarah-Renner@uiowa.edu “Disability Mentoring Day – Career Development for the 21st
Century” “Disability Mentoring Day – Career Development for the 21st
Century” “Health Care Needs Within a One-Stop System” “Obesity: What’s the Big Deal?” Judith Amundson, Exceptional Parents Magazine (submitted). PRODUCTS Make All The Right Moves (second edition), a resource book created by a group of young adults with disabilities and intended for use by middle and high school age students with disabilities who are beginning to plan their transition from high school to adult life and employment. The book is organized in sections with valuable tips from youth – information they wished someone had told them when they were younger – as well as local and national resources and websites. Iowa’s HRTW Medical Notebook, a three ring binder that enables participating YSHCN keep information about their medical conditions, pending appointments, etc. organized and accessible. Iowa’s HRTW Handipac, a credit-card size envelope that YSHCN can conveniently store in a wallet, purse, or backpack. The Handipac was designed so that youth could have their abbreviated medical information available at a glance and have a place to keep other medical information. Iowa’s HRTW Bookmarks, a bright, colorful, laminated bookmark (design assistance provided by members of the YAC) that briefly describes HRTW services for any YSHCN who might be interested in participating; bookmarks are distributed community-wide to medical providers, schools, employers, community providers, and others. Making Connections, Mentoring Career Day, 2002, one version for business/employers and one for students participating in Iowa’s Disability Mentoring Day. The business/employer version offers information about workplace learning experiences and how to provide a meaningful job shadow experience for student matches. The student/parent version offers information about what students can expect from their Disability Mentoring Day match with local a local business/employer.
Iowa’s HRTW project is administered by Child Health Specialty Clinics, and is managed by the University of Iowa’s Center for Disabilities and Development, specifically, the Employment Policy Group. Partners include the Northeast Iowa Medical Education the University of Iowa Health Care, Department of Family Medicine and Pediatrics, and the College of Public Health Center for Public Health Statistics. Among collaborators are the Iowa Chapter of the American Academy of Family Practice and Pediatrics, and Iowa Departments of Public Health, Education, and Human Services. Child Health Specialty Clinic and HRTW project staff are involved with three other federally-funded Medical Home projects that currently have program initiatives in Waterloo and/or throughout the state of Iowa. Considerable effort has gone into integrating all medical home/youth transition program efforts in Waterloo. HRTW-IA SPONSORED MEETINGS HRTW-IA Youth Advisory Committee Meetings Disability Mentoring Day: Career Development for the 21st Century, Des
Moines, IA, 10/2002. PRESENTATIONS For copies please contact: Sarah Renner, Sarah-Renner@uiowa.edu NATIONAL Tri-Regional Meeting for Regions V, VI, VII: “Ten Year Action Plan to Achieve Community Based Service Systems for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Their Families,” Kansas City, MO, 09/2002. ppt via Web site: http://cshcnleaders.ichp.edu/triregionals2002
“ Every Child Counts: New Approaches to Understanding Children with Special Health Needs,” Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference, Clearwater, FL, 12/2002. [HRTW-IA, LOBAS] “Putting it All Together ,” Ticket-to-Work Advisory Panel, Crystal City, VA, 08/2002. [HRTW-IA, HILLYARD & NOBLE] HRTW Poster Session, University Centers on Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Conference, Bethesda, MD, 10/2002. [RENNER] “Transition of YSHCN, “ American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, 11/2002. [RENNER] STATE “Employers and Healthy Transitions,” John Deere Credit Union, Waterloo, IA, 08/2002. [HRTW-IA, THOMAS] “Issues of Disability in the Workplace,” Central Iowa Society of Human Managers, Des Moines, IA, 09/2002. [HRTW-IA, HOFFA] “Job Shadowing,” Iowa Retail Federation, Des Moines, IA,
09/2002, [HRWT-IA, RENNER] “The Role of Business in HRTW,” Chamber of Commerce Business Relations, Waterloo, IA, 11/2002. [HRTW-IA, HOFFA] “Employers and Healthy Transitions, “ Target, Sears, Younkers, Waterloo, IA, 01/2003, [HRTW-IA, MARQUARDT] “It’s Your Choice to be Healthy”, Transition Task Force Transition Fair, 04/2003. [HRTW-IA, THOMAS]
“Healthy Transitions to School and Work in Waterloo”
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