SPAN
(Statewide Parent Advocacy Network)
2008 LUNCHTIME TELECONFERENCES
Materials for
the teleconferences
HEALTH
ADVOCACY SERIES
Helping NJ Families access health
coverage and health services
for their children with special healthcare needs
All Calls will be from 12:00 to
1:30 PM
Presentation from 12-1; Q&A from
1-1:30
May 7,
2008
May is National
Children’s Mental Health Month!
Mental Health Services: Child Behavioral Health
What is the Child Behavioral Health system?
What are Family Support
Organizations?
Care Management Organizations?
Mobile response Services?
How to access children’s
mental
health services?
Appeals?
Presented by:
Diana Autin, Esq., SPAN Executive Co-Director
and
Sue Benedetto, Executive Director, Family Based Services Association of NJ
June
4, 2008
Health Care Advocacy in the Managed Care
Environment:
Medically Necessary Services; Primary Care Providers; Specialty Care; Covered
Services; Costs; Choosing Health Coverage and Providers; Prescription Drugs
Presented by:
Diana Autin, Esq., SPAN Executive Co-Director
July
9, 2008
Other Health Supports:
Special Child Health Services; Catastrophic Illness
in Children Relief Fund;
Medicaid Waivers; Personal Assistance Services; Cash
& Counseling Personal
Preference; the Individualized Health Plan in the
School Environment
Presented by:
Diana Autin, Esq., SPAN Executive Co-Director
and
Pauline Lisciotto, Program Manager, Family Health Program, Department of Health
August
6, 2008
Health Consumer and Privacy Rights and Related Laws:
COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, FMLA
Presented by:
Lois Krieger, Senior Attorney, Community Health Law
Project
September 10, 2008
Transition to Adult Systems of Care: What’s Out
There?
Presented by:
Alice Hunnicutt, SPAN Project Director, Transition
to Adult Life
or
by phone 973-642-8100 X116 or via email
trainings@spannj.org
Funded by the Family to Family Grant from the
This
project is cosponsored by the
the
IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey.
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