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Family to Family Health Connections

Welcome! This new resource provides information for individuals and grantees interested in topics related to Family-to-Family Health Information Centers, a grant jointly sponsored by the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. It is our hope that this will a useful page and that you bookmark the site so that you may stay up-to-date with events, articles and answers to your frequently asked questions.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Family to Family website provides background information, white papers and promising practices. Visit the CMS F2F site

Family Voices maintains a website that facilitates a state-to-state information exchange, including information on grantees, examples of resources from the field, and issue briefs on selected topics. Visit www.familyvoices.org for a full list of resources.

Contact Information


FY 03-05 Grantees Contact:
Sona Stepp
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
7500 Security Blvd., M/S S2-14-26
Baltimore, MD 21244-1850
p: 410-786-6815
f: 410-786-9004
sona.stepp@cms.hhs.gov

TA Provider:
Leau Phillips
Training and Technical Assistance
Family Voices
2340 Alamo SE, Suite 102
Albuquerque, NM 87106
888-835-5669
leau@familyvoices.org

Whats New

A new topic paper highlights innovative strategies developed by individual F2F Centers to develop partnerships to expand their reach, to enhance outreach to parents, to serve a culturally diverse clientele, to help youth prepare for transition, and to ensure organizational sustainability. Review the paper

What are the activities and accomplishments of the Family-to-Family Grantees? Review the grant activities implementation challenges, and accomplishments.

The 24th Annual Closing the Gap Conference will be held October 19-21st in Bloomington, MN. Topics will cover a broad spectrum of technology as it is being applied to all disabilities and age groups in education, rehabilitation, vocation, and independent living.

Find more information about Closing the Gap or view a complete list of upcoming events.

Frequently Asked Questions

This section is organized by category, with examples featured below.
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General Overview

I see the initials F2F HIC often, what does that stand for?
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The Future of F2F

How much did the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 appropriate for F2F programs?
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Highlighted Articles

(Please note: Below is a portion of the Family-to-Family documents available on the Clearinghouse. Some of the resources are issue briefs and papers, but many of the resources are from state grantees who wanted to share thier resources. To view all F2F related documents, click the link below)

Family-to-Family Fact Sheets in Spanish
more info

Virginia Family to Family Health Information and Education Center Resources
more info

Care Coordination Notebook: Financing and Managing Your Child's Health Care
more info

Children with Special Health Care Needs Media Campaign
more info

Family-to-Family Health Care Information and Education Centers
more info

Needs Assessment for Children with Special Needs - Nevada
more info

New Jersey Care 2000+ Program - Brochures and Presentation
more info

New York’s Family to Family Health Care Brochures and Fact Sheets
more info

Strengthening Families: The Key to Safe & Healthy Children
more info


Browse all Clearinghouse documents

HCBS / Clearinghouse for the Community Living Exchange Collaborative / (http://www.hcbs.org)