About Us

About Family Voices National

Family Voices is a national, grassroots clearinghouse for information and education concerning the health care of children with special health needs.

Family Voices believes that children with special health needs face common problems caused by fundamental inadequacies in our health care system.

Our children have challenging health conditions that usually make their lives and their families' lives more complicated. Some of our children have physical, mental, or emotional disabilities; others live with a chronic illness; many present a brief but life threatening medical problem.

Some of our children need only an accurate diagnosis and routine treatment and monitoring; others will require life-sustaining technology, staining technology, treatment, and medicines throughout their lives. Children with special health needs tend to receive their health care from a combination of private and public financing and delivery systems.

About 10 million children have a chronic health condition of some kind; about four million children have a health condition that limits their school and play activities. Almost all of children with special health care needs, no matter the severity of their condition, live at home with their parents and brothers and sisters.

Family Voices, Inc.
3411 Candelaria NE, Suite M
Albuquerque, NM 87107
(505) 872-4774 or (888) 835-5669
Fax: (505) 872-4780
Email: kidshealth@familyvoices.org
Web: http://www.familyvoices.org