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Special Health Care Needs

Medical Foster Care

Medical Foster Care

Provides foster children with medical conditions an opportunity to receive care within a family setting.

Florida Early Steps

Early Steps

Early intervention services to eligible infants and toddlers, from birth to 36-months, with developmental delays, disabilities, and at-risk conditions.

Child with Special Health Care Needs

Children’s Medical Services

Collection of programs that serve children with special health care needs, providing family-centered care, using a statewide network of health care professionals. 

Bright Expectations

Bright Expectations

Dedicated to helping families with children who have unique abilities find support, resources, and inspiration to achieve the brightest futures they can imagine.

Home Away from Home

Tax Credits

Program provides tax credits to Florida businesses for contributing to eligible organizations that house families of critically ill children at little or no cost to the family while traveling, so the child can receive care.

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Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries

Provides eligible residents who sustain a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury direct case management and resource facilitation as primary services for eligible adult and pediatric clients. 

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