Serves children birth to age 21 with special health care needs. Provides care coordination including referrals to health care services, case management, and referrals community support and resources. Maintains a database of regional and local resources for children with special health care needs. Financial assistance may be available to assist with specialty medical care, if income and medical criteria are met. Also loaner hearing aids for children are available through the Virginia Hearing Aid Loaner Bank housed at UVA. Provides a network of experienced and trained parents and other family caregivers of children with special health care needs who assist families to participate in the planning and decision-making about their child's services and plan for the child's future. Blue Ridge Care Connection for Children is located in Charlottesville but serves 16 counties and 5 cities to the West and North of Albemarle County. For Toll-free access, please call: (866)596-9367 (BRCC Direct Toll-Free Number) The Care Connection for Children (formerly known as Children's Specialty Services) program is divided into 6 Centers of Excellence throughout the state. The Charlottesville area center is known as the Blue Ridge Care Connection for Children (BRCCC). It is a collaboration between the Virginia Department of Health and the University of Virginia Children's Medical Center. The BRCCC is directly affiliated with the UVA Children's Medical Center. BRCC serves the Counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Frederick, Greene, Highland, Madison, Nelson, Orange, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Warren and Cities of Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro, Winchester. There are 5 other centers across the Commonwealth. Please call (866)596-9367 if you have a question about which center serves your locality.