Focus of Application: State
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Engaging Families in Policy Change
This brief provides an overview of strategies for engaging families in the policy change process.
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Expanding Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Supports and Services: A Planning Tool for States and Communities
This tool can be used to help organize planning, inventory existing resources to identify gaps and needs, and create shared goals for service delivery that align with best practices in infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH).
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Better Outcomes for Babies: Key Practices of Cross-System Collaboration
This guide summarizes learnings from four state cross-system collaborative initiatives focused on supporting infants, toddlers, and their families.
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Advancing DC:0-5™ Policy and Practice Within Systems of Care
This brief discusses how the DC:0-5™: Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood can support the work of an early childhood-focused system of care and provides a self-assessment tool that can be used as a framework for systems of care conversations.
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Advancing Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: The Integration of DC:0-5™ Into State Policy and Systems
This article discusses why and how states are integrating the DC:0-5™: Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood into state policy and systems; provides state examples; and provides recommendations for further improvements in state infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) policy and practice.
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State of Babies Yearbook 2021: Racism Creates Inequities in Maternal and Child Health, Even Before Birth
This report explores why there are disparities in maternal and child health; what disparities exist, and for whom; and how policymakers and practitioners can promote racial and ethnic equity to improve maternal and child health.
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Planting Seeds in Fertile Ground: Steps Every Policymaker Should Take to Advance Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
This webinar and policy brief highlight what states can and should be doing to advance infant and early childhood mental health.
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Recommendations on Developmental Screening Follow-up Practices and Policies for Federal, State, and Community Level Stakeholders
This brief explores challenges of the early childhood service delivery system and offers recommendations for federal, state, and community-level policy and systems change to ensure children and families receive help when developmental delays are present.
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Help Me Grow National General Session: Family-Engaged Developmental Monitoring
This recorded presentation covers the role of family-engaged developmental monitoring (FEDM) in advancing parent voice and equity.
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Considerations in System of Care Expansion: Expanding Early Childhood Systems of Care
This technical assistance tool outlines five strategies for expanding early childhood systems of care.
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