The Center for Self Determination, Health & Policy is home to two initiatives funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau:
Integrated Community Systems for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Maine is designed to assure that Maine’s children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHN) and their families have access to an integrated, community based system of care achieving the goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s six National Performance Measures. www.servicesforme.org
The Healthy & Ready to Work (HRTW) National Resource Center is one of six federally funded resource centers supporting the implementation of the New Freedom Initiative and the six MCHB national performance measures. We provide information, models, and tools to help states and medical homes incorporate transition planning into services and develop policy for children and youth in their transition to adulthood. www.hrtw.org
We provide a wide range of technical assistance to the Maine Department of Education including facilitating and staffing the Governor’s Task Force to Engage Maine’s Youth and technical assistance to assist the Department in meeting the legislative requirements of the bill that passed as a result of the Task Force work to keep “highly mobile” students in school; facilitating and supporting the Special Purpose Private Schools Rate Setting Consensus Panel; The Education Bill of Rights for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children’s study group; providing fiscal agent support to the Maine Reading Recovery Network; policy review and analysis; managing the certification of day treatment personnel, and professional development including an annual winter retreat for Maine educators. www.mainesupportnetwork.org
The Journeys for Women Initiative lends support, direction, and advocacy for a woman wishing to engage in a journey that will provide learning, respite, and/or revitalization to her life experience. This is a uniquely designed opportunity for a qualified woman to embark on the journey of a lifetime. www.journeysforwomen.org
Link to the Governor's Task Force to Engage Maine's Youth Website.
The Maine Support Network is the home base for the Maine chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children. CEC is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC’s role is to advocate for appropriate governmental policies, set professional standards, provide continual professional development, advocate for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and help professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice. For more information visit http://www.cec.sped.org
Under contract with the Maine Department of Education, The Network’s Center for Self Determination, Health & Policy is providing Other Qualified Mental Health Professional staff certification for the MaineCare Program’s Day Treatment Program (Section 41). The Center has designed a web-based certification process that is serving the needs of more than 75 approved day treatment programs in Maine. https://www.mecertoqmhp.org/
Through a partnership with the University of Maine Farmington, Network staff are providing coaching to students enrolled in the SPARC program. Designed to meet the challenge of severe shortages of special education teachers in Maine school districts, the program includes online courses and face-to-face coaching for teachers and ed techs with a bachelor’s degree seeking Special Education 282 certification. http://rtdc.umf.maine.edu/SPARC.htm
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