The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality\'s (AHRQ) User Liaison Program (ULP) and the Health Resources and Services Administration\'s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau to designed this workshop to address the information needs of public officials seeking to ensure that ongoing changes in our health translate into high-quality and coordinated systems of care for Children With Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). Following this workshop, participants were expected to be better able to: 1) Design, monitor, and evaluate systems of care for CSHCN. 2) Apply promising practices for serving CSHCN and their families. 3) Incorporate the family perspective in the design and oversight of services for CSHCN. 4) Understand the role of performance objectives and the potential usefulness of national and State-level data sources for measuring progress toward these objectives. 5) Operationalize workable strategies for measuring family involvement, implementation of the medical home, and the quality of care provided to CSHCN.
