Family Voices

PO Box 769
Algodones, New Mexico 87001
Family Voices believes that children with special health needs face common problems caused by fundamental inadequacies in our health care system. Family Voices does not support any specific health care reform plan. Instead, the role of Family Voices is to advocate for the inclusion of a set of basic principles in every health care reform proposal. Those principles, which have been found effective in thousands of communities throughout the United States, are:
• Every child deserves quality primary and specialty health care that is affordable and within geographic reach.

• Families are the core of this nation's health system, their children's most important health providers and caregivers.

• Quality health care is family-centered, community-based, coordinated, and culturally competent.

• Health benefits and services must be flexible, guided by what children need.

• Strong family-professional partnerships improve decision-making, enhance outcomes and assure quality.

• Families practice cost-effectiveness and expect the same from health systems.


Phone: (888) 835-5669
Fax: (888) 835-5669
E-Mail: kidshealth@familyvoices.org
URL: http://www.familyvoices.org/
Updated: 09/20/2001