Miriam Scrivener — Curriculum Developer Interview Transcript
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Child with special health needs is not just a child with a diagnosis. It's a child that lives in a family, in a community, and that has goals, hopes, expectations, and a trajectory for a good life, just as any other child without special needs.
My name is Miriam Biurci Scrivener. I am the curriculum developer at the CCATER, Care Coordination, Assistance, Training, Education, and Resource Center at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The curriculum developer writes the content based on evidence-based practices, such as The Blueprint for Change, the National Standards for Care Coordination, the Massachusetts Family Engagement Framework, the Charting the LifeCourse Framework. And in addition to that, we take special care in addressing the competencies that MassHealth has delineated for CARES providers in their regulations.
We have developed different types of topics that compose a whole framework — family engagement, health equity, racial equity, healthrelated social needs, trauma informed care, healing center care — are all the lens through which we see.
Cultural linguistically appropriate services are just one of the ways to address health equity. We partner with the providers in providing an action plan for making cultural linguistically appropriate services happen within the medical provider practice.
To me, enhanced care coordination means doing with the family. It's all about having the family at the center of the work that you do. It is about listening — what the goals and expectations for the individual child and for that family — what really makes enhanced care coordination enhanced.