1. Partnerships to Improve Your Medical Home Challenge - Providing children and families a comprehensive medical home with limited resources of all kinds. Goal - More efficient practices with greater customer satisfaction.

2. Challenges What stands in the way of that? –The Listening Ear Cost efficiency Non-medical issues

3. Benefits More comprehensive family-centered care Increased Doctor efficiency Reduced family waiting time Reduced distance between medical community and the rest of the familys world

4. Paying For It It always comes down to money - Dr. Anne Francis 3 Scenarios –Partnerships with Community Based Organizations –Partnerships with services providers who can bill for their services independently –Community members who might volunteer their services

5. The Model 1.Dealing with personal emotional health 2.Working knowledge of community resources 3.Understanding roles in the practice 4.Developing skills to connect to the family 5.Helping families develop their teams