Part 3 focuses on early childhood development care coordination and linkage, providing nine actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Care Coordination and Linkage Change…
Early childhood development (ECD) lays the foundation of lifelong health, learning, well-being, and success. The earliest years of life are a critical window for supporting healthy brain development, strong relationships, and positive health outcomes. Community health centers play an essential role in helping children and families thrive. By providing comprehensive, family-centered care, health centers support…
Part 1 focuses on early childhood development promotion and prevention, providing 12 actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Promotion and Prevention Change Ideas Each…
These resources summarize takeaways and best practices from a six-month learning network series held with community health center grantees focused on improving developmental outcomes for children ages 0-5. Each learning network session focused on a key topic related to implementing early childhood developmental services. Community health centers and pediatric care teams can use these summary…
Routine screening in pediatric practice is essential for identifying risks to a young child’s development early, linking families to follow-up services, and improving outcomes. Our Getting Started Guide: Implementing a Screening Process is designed to help pediatric practice teams to develop a screening workflow tailored for their practice and the families they serve. The guide…
Family connection is at the heart of pediatric care. Supporting the early relationships between children and their caregivers is foundational to lifelong health, well-being, and flourishing. Fostering early relational health and engaging families as partners in care are critical to setting children on a path toward healthy development and can ultimately drive larger systems change.…
Routine well-child visits are a critical opportunity for pediatric providers to assess family strengths that impact the child’s social-emotional development. When screening for social-emotional concerns, it is important that providers use billing and diagnosis codes to ensure proper documentation and alignment of next steps. This resource was authored by the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems…
The Help Me Grow National Center – one of our primary partners – is hosting its 2024 National Forum on December 10, 2024. Register to meet early childhood system-building leaders and professionals from across the country and learn all about their successful strategies, partnerships, and innovations! The 2024 Help Me Grow National Forum will be…
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