title: An innovative Oklahoma program to coordinate interdisciplinary and interagency services for children with special healthcare needs at a county level.
abstract: Children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families often require multiple services from multiple providers in order to meet their needs. The Sooner SUCCESS (State Unified Children's Comprehensive Exemplary Services for Special Needs), was developed based on a complex adaptive systems approach allowing local coalitions to address their unique needs. Sooner SUCCESS provides support to families and service providers at the community level including a broad range of supports from simply helping a family identify and access a service that already exists to innovatively marshaling generic resources to meet a unique need. The program uses these family support activities coupled with the Community Needs Assessment to identify local service needs encouraging community capacity building by coordinating the efforts of the health, mental health, social and education systems to identify service gaps and develop community-based strategies to fill those gaps.
authors.affiliation: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OU Child Study Center, 1100 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolraich
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lockhart
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Worley
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D004519:Education, Special / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005190:Family; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009825:Oklahoma