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Year: 2026

  • Making Team-Based Care Work in Pediatric Practice Settings

    This video explores practical strategies for strengthening team-based care to better meet the developmental, health, and social needs of young children and their families. Drawing on focus groups conducted with pediatric practices through the Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood (TPEC) program, the video highlights the benefits of a team-based approach, including more coordinated care, stronger…

  • Making Mental Health Co-Management Work in Pediatric Practice Settings

    This video introduces co-management as an approach that keeps the pediatric practice as the child’s medical home while bringing together pediatric and mental health expertise to share information, coordinate care, and adjust support as children’s needs change. It highlights a range of co-management strategies that can be adapted to different settings, including referral and feedback…

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Illustrative Financing and Payment Mechanisms

    This resource highlights strategies that states, Tribes, and communities use to operationalize and finance the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care, which includes services related to promotion and prevention, surveillance and screening, care coordination and linkage, and intervention. Drawing on examples from across the country, this resource examines how programs have structured, funded, and scaled…

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Tools for Embedding the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care in Clinic Operations

    This toolkit offers a range of tools (e.g., workflows, billing guidance, strategies for community relationship-building) to help pediatric practices operationalize the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care, which includes services related to developmental promotion and prevention, surveillance and screening, care coordination and linkage, and early intervention (learn more). The toolkit can be used by pediatric…

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Tools for Elevating Family Engagement, Leadership, and Storytelling in Clinical Practice

    This toolkit brings together practical strategies and resources to help pediatric care teams foster authentic partnerships with families. The sections of the toolkit are organized by the steps a clinic might take in its efforts to strengthen family engagement, leadership, and storytelling. Toolkit sections include: Section 1: Complete a Baseline Assessment of Family Engagement Resources…

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Tools for Developing Sustainable Policy, Financing, and Payment Strategies

    This toolkit offers a range of practical resources to help organizations finance programs and strategies that support the health of young children. The toolkit can be used by early childhood professionals and teams that support pediatric practices to advance early childhood developmental services, such as health department administrators and program managers. The sections of this…

  • Cross-Sector Engagement Tool

    The Cross-Sector Engagement Tool helps early childhood leaders identify, prioritize, and engage the partners needed to advance systems change. Whether building a new coalition, launching an initiative, or strengthening an existing project, the tool provides a structured way to map relationships and identify opportunities for collaboration. Designed for use at both the state and community…

  • Strengthening Early Childhood Systems: Applied Strategies From the Water of Systems Change Framework

    Grounded in The Water of Systems Change framework, this resource series outlines strategies for six interconnected conditions to drive meaningful and lasting early childhood systems change: policies, practices, resource flows, relationships and connections, power dynamics, and mental models. Each resource offers research- and expert-informed strategies, along with practical actions, that state and local health systems…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 4: Early Childhood Development Early Intervention

    Part 4 focuses on early childhood development early intervention, providing six 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. Early Intervention Change Ideas Each change idea…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 2: Early Childhood Development Surveillance and Screening

    Part 2 focuses on early childhood development surveillance and screening, providing 10 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. Surveillance and Screening Change Ideas Each…

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