Goal:  Support families to manage the health and health care of their children

Support children to assume developmentally appropriate self management skills and responsibilities

Click for Family Management Support and Child Self Management Support Changes

Tips:

• Prepare families so they are active partners in and advocates for their child’s healthcare; emphasize the family’s role in managing their child’s well being and illness
• Incorporate relevant cultural healing traditions and beliefs into patient care and communication
• Provide linguistically effective care at all points of contact
• Use effective, culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate self-management support strategies [1]
• Build effective alliances with the family, being sensitive to family weight related issues [2]
• Encourage healthy behaviors for parents (modeling)

[1] Effective self-management includes: assessment, goal setting, action planning, problem and follow up.

[2] This may entail training of providers on strategies for raising the topic of overweight.

Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Learning Collaborative (A Partnership of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and NICHQ)