by Nikki Montgomery | Jan 23, 2025 | Family Voices
Julie Beckett passed away on Friday, May 13, 2022 at her home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Julie was a passionate and visionary advocate for improving health care for children with special health care needs and disabilities for over 35 years, beginning with her daughter...
by Nikki Montgomery | Dec 4, 2024 | Family Voices, NHTRC
https://familyvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HCT-2024-IDD-Profile-.mp4 Family Voices leads the Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities. The Center keeps an eye on how youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities are...
by Nikki Montgomery | Nov 20, 2024 | Family Voices, Resource/Publication
Family Voices has launched My Language, My Care, a free online course about language access rights and services. In this course, participants learn how health care is better when people can communicate with their health care provider in their preferred language. The...
by Nikki Montgomery | Oct 24, 2024 | Family Voices
Learning Collaborative Cohort 2 This Learning Collaborative (LC) will improve Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care (FELSC). Family Voices leads this MCHB-funded cooperative agreement, and the Learning Collaborative is led by Family Voices and the...
by Nikki Montgomery | Sep 4, 2024 | Family Voices
The Project, which started on September 1, 2024, aims to develop and advance national, state, and local/community frameworks that support a successful transition from child to adult serving systems for youth with autism and/or epilepsy who have complex health and...
by Nikki Montgomery | Jul 24, 2024 | Family Voices
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Research Network (CYSHCNet) is pleased to announce Nora Wells and John Gordon as the 2024 recipients of The Pediatric Complex Care Lifetime Achievement Award. The award celebrates...