Community Health Center Webinar: Go Team! Implementing a Team Approach to Primary Care for Your Youngest Patients
When delivering primary care for babies and young children, community health center providers must quickly assess general wellness, conduct developmental surveillance and screening, provide anticipatory guidance, and respond to acute and chronic concerns – all while supporting families during their children’s critical early growth. This webinar focused on using team-based care approaches to accomplish these goals, increase patient and provider satisfaction, and lead to more successful and equitable care. Presenters included Melissa Buchholz, PsyD, licensed clinical psychologist, associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and director of HealthySteps in Colorado, and Laura Krug, LCSW, HealthySteps senior subject matter expert.
The webinar was at the intermediate level for community health centers with a foundational knowledge of how to apply team-based care to their work. Participants learned the “who, what, why, how, and when” of team-based care implementation, including specific models and strategies, and heard examples of what team-based care could look like in their practice. By attending this webinar, community health center professionals were able to:
- Summarize the importance of team-based care for young children.
- Define how team-based care promotes practice transformation.
- Name the benefits of team-based care for young children.
- Identify 3-5 strategies they can implement in the short- and long-term to promote team-based care in their practice.
Watch the recording below to learn more. CME/MOC credits are available until March 13, 2024 – to receive CME/MOC credit, please access ZERO TO THREE’s eLEARN webpage and complete the steps under the CME Guidelines tab.
This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886367139-6277) for 1 continu
Speaker Bios
Melissa Buchholz, PsyD
Melissa Buchholz, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is core faculty in the Harris Program for Child Development and Infant Mental Health at the University of Colorado. Dr. Buchholz is also the director of HealthySteps for the state of Colorado and has worked to scale the HealthySteps model across the state since 2012.
She is passionate about disseminating health promotion and prevention services for young children and has spent her career focusing on integrating early childhood behavioral health services into medical settings, specifically pediatric primary care. Dr. Buchholz is particularly interested in improving access to behavioral healthcare for young children and building comprehensive systems of care for young children and their families.
Dr. Buchholz is also a graduate of ZERO TO THREE’s fellowship program and a member of the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center’s National Advisory Board.
Laura Krug, LCSW
Laura is the HealthySteps senior subject matter expert and leads the development of professional development for HealthySteps sites, including eLearning modules, virtual learning events, and resources for caregivers and medical professionals. Laura is also the onboarding lead and guides prospective HealthySteps practices through the exploration phase of implementation.
Laura brings over a decade of experience as a HealthySteps Specialist at the Montefiore Medical Group in Bronx, NY, where she was also the director of quality. As the first HealthySteps hire at Montefiore, she helped grow the program from one trial intervention site to 20 pediatric and family medicine practices in 10 years. Laura was critical to the program’s success and expansion by creating enthusiasm and clinic buy-in, establishing procedures and workflows, training new practices in the model, supervising HealthySteps Specialists, generating innovations and enhancements to the program, and ensuring program fidelity.
Laura is a licensed clinical social worker who has always focused on families and mental health. Before HealthySteps, Laura worked as a therapist in a variety of settings including residential treatment, school, and private practice. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Emory University and Master of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Laura also completed the Parent-Infant Study Center, a two-year postgraduate training program of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in New York City. When her children were babies, well before discovering HealthySteps, Laura dreamed of creating a program just like HealthySteps, so she was thrilled to find it, work in it, and then lead its scaling throughout the country.
