Welcome
This website has been set up to document a series of workshops sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.
These workshops are focused on engaging a group of stakeholders representing care givers as well as policy makers and patients to develop an ideal system of health care for children with special needs. There were two workshops. Use the links below to access the documentation from each workshop.
Workshop 1
September 9-10, 2009 San Francisco, California
The 50 workshop participants represented many different roles working in the system, including many with extensive expertise as scholars, practitioners, and advocates. Together, they engaged in two very focused days of exploration, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the existing system, the challenges of the present and the future, and the nature and composition of an ideal future system.
Workshop 2
October 13, 2009 Palo Alto, California
In this workshop there were 26 participants consisting of a mix of people who were in the first workshop and new people who did not participate in that workshop. The models developed in the first workshop were used to instigate further exploration into projects the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health should consider as it moves forward with this project. The next meeting with be with the Board of Directors in November.