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Presenting… To For your child… For your entire family… Erie County Department of Social Services, Services Division WHAT IS IT? Bridges to Health is a collection of community health care services and supports for certain families with children in foster care. Would you like to have: Fewer crisis disruptions in your home life? The ability for a break when you need it? In-home services & supports? Peace of mind knowing your foster child’s services will continue even if they leave your care? Would you like your foster child to: Be as healthy as possible? Become more prepared to be an independent adult? Bridges to Health can make that happen! HOW WILL IT AFFECT US? The services that Bridges to Health provides are to care for children within the family’s support network. Children in foster care can have many people in lives – birth families, foster and adoptive families, caregivers, providers, clinicians, courts, & advocates. Bridges to Health helps them all work together to make family life less stressful. Bridges to Health services go along with Medicaid. All service providers bill Medicaid directly. All services may follow enrolled children anywhere in if they wish to continue and remain eligible- even if they are adopted, return to birth parent, or have another permanency plan, until they turn 21 years of age. WHY SHOULD MY FAMILY ENROLL? The purpose of the Bridges to Health program is to avoid, delay, or prevent medical institutional care to foster children. A child has to be in foster care at the date of enrollment. Services are available to the enrolled child as well as birth parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and siblings. There are built in safeguards. All families have the right to; Be treated with consideration and respect;