Who is eligible?

Care Connection for Children is for children who:

  • Live in Virginia
  • Are under the age of 21.
  • Have special health care needs — those eligible for CCC services are those who have disorders that:
    • Have a physical basis
    • Have lasted, or expected to last, at least 12 months
    • Produce one or more of the following sequelae:
      1. a need for health care and ancillary services over and above the usual for the child's age, or for special ongoing treatments, interventions or accommodations at home or school;
      2. limitation in function, activities or social role in comparison with healthy age peers in the general areas of physical, cognitive, emotional and social growth and development;
      3. dependency on one of the following to compensate for, or minimize limitation of, function, activities, or social role: medications, special diet, medical technology, assistive devices or personal assistance.