| The Term CSHCN
and CYSCHN
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
which amended Title V of the Social Security Act changed the
terminology
from crippled children to children with special health care
needs (CSHCN).
Since MCHB began the Healthy & Ready to Work initiative
in 1996, the terminology youth with special health care needs
(YSHCN) and children and youth with special health care needs
(CYSHCN) has been used.
"What is Title V and How Can it Help You?"
internet.dscc.uic.edu/dsccroot/titlev.asp Published 2000.
Every state and the District of Columbia has a Title V Program
for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) that
is
funded, in part, through the Federal Title V Maternal and
Child Health Block Grant. These programs began in 1935,
when
Congress passed the Social Security Act, a law designed to
bring some financial and health security into the lives
of
America's most vulnerable citizens. The fifth article of
that act, known as Title V (five), provided funds to states
to
develop and operate public health care programs for certain
children with special health care needs as well as to establish
other programs to promote the health of low income mothers
and children.
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