Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) – Referral Program
About the Program
We promote connected systems of care for children and youth with special care needs from birth through transition to adulthood. We work with national, state, local, and community partners to help connect children or youth and their families to the health and related services they need to thrive.
Who are Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs?
Children and youth with special health care needs may have or be at increased risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions. Their complex needs mean many areas of their life may be impacted.
A common theme in their life is that their needs require different systems to work together. For example, a social worker in an ear, nose, and throat clinic might collaborate with a school audiologist to make classroom accommodations for a kindergartner with a temporary hearing difference.
The chronic physical, behavioral, or emotional conditions may include:
- ADHD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder)
- Asthma
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- Hearing differences
- Blindness
- Type 1 diabetes
- Down syndrome
- Heart disease
- Children in foster and kinship care
To get support or more information:
- Make referrals or use this form by faxing to 509 – 684 – 9878. Call us if you have any questions: 509-684-2262, option 1.
Resources
- Information and steps to enroll for Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) Enrollment
- Information about Supplemental Security Income Enrollment for Children Information
- Information about how to track services and benefit renewal timelines
- Support for parents at Parent to Parent