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The mission of the HRTW National Resource Center is to create changes in policy, programs and practices that will help youth with special health care needs transition to adult health care with funding, to work, and to greater independence.

The Center’s work supports the following federal mandates

The New Freedom Initiative
See  SOLUTION III.C: Action Plan For Children And Youth With Special Health Care Needs and Their Families

Surgeon General’s Call for Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities (2005)

Healthy People 2010 - Goal 2: Eliminate Health Disparities
Chapter 6 Disabilities and Secondary Conditions: Promote the health of people with disabilities, prevent secondary conditions, and eliminate disparities between people with and without disabilities in the U.S. population.

HRSA/MCHB’s six Core National Performance Measures
 

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The HRTW Center is headquartered at the Maine State Title V CSHN Program. Activities are coordinated through the Maine Support Network's Center for Self-Determination, Health and Policy. The Center is funded through a cooperative agreement (U39MC06899-01-00) from the Integrated Services Branch, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs (DSCSHN) in the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Elizabeth McGuire, HRSA/MCHB Project Officer.