Medically Handicapped Children’s Program

The Medically Handicapped Children’s Program partnership offers direct care services, clinical support and care coordination across the state for eligible patients.

The Munroe-Meyer Institute has a long-standing grant partnership with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, since 1972, to provide clinical support to children with complex health care needs and their families across the state of Nebraska through the Medically Handicapped Children’s Program.

MMI Core Projects

MMI Statewide Network for Children with Special Health Care Needs - Genetics and Craniofacial Clinics

Provide multidisciplinary clinics for children with genetics, craniofacial and related disorders in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Kearney, and Norfolk to ensure access to a clinical geneticist, genetic counselor, and extended team closer to home.

Specialty Clinics for Children and Youth

Provide multidisciplinary clinics for children with or at risk for neurodevelopmental disabilities and related disorders that include impairments of cognition, language, mobility, or self-care. The clinics are offered in Norfolk, North Platte, Scottsbluff and Rushville.

Neonatal Intensive Care Follow-Up Clinics

The Tracking Infant Progress Statewide program provides follow-up support for at-risk infants who were cared for in an affiliated neonatal intensive care center after they were born. Follow-up is conducted through a questionnaire, clinic visits with a specialized physician or nurse practitioner and a multidisciplinary team, and/or follow-up with the NE Early Development Network. Clinics are held at Methodist Women’s Hospital, Children’s Nebraska, Munroe-Meyer Institute, and Tree Tops Clinic in Kearney. 

Teratogen Project

The Teratogen Project provides accurate and timely information on exposures to potentially damaging agents during pregnancy and lactation to medical professionals and the general public in Nebraska regarding the prevention and treatment of birth defects. 

Family Care Enhancement Project Collaboration

The Family Care Enhancement Project places Parent Resource Coordinators, who are parents of children with disabilities and have specialized training, in clinics/agencies across the state of Nebraska. They provide peer-to-peer mentoring and help families who have children with disabilities and special healthcare needs from birth to age 21. 

They help families get connected to early intervention services and community resources, transition from early intervention and from pediatric to adult services, and encourage them to become involved in advisory boards to bring forward the voices of families in their community. Also, they host educational sessions, facilitate family support groups, participate in community coalitions, and other outreach activities such as health fairs.

Learn more about FCEP