Role: Early Childhood and Family Support Professionals
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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…
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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…
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From Investment to Impact: Strengthening Early Childhood Systems
High-quality early childhood services can help children and families thrive, but accessing those services often depends on how well programs, providers, and community resources work together. The Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center supported three Implementation Sites in Colorado, Maui County, and Washington as they worked to improve their local early…
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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…
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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…
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Bringing Communities Together for Young Children: A Washington Video Story
In Washington, state and local partners work together to make it easier for families to find and access early childhood supports. Through a “connect the connectors” approach, early childhood professionals share knowledge, build relationships, and adapt how they work together. In Grant County and Grays Harbor County, community partners are bringing resources closer to families…
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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…
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Partnering to Strengthen Early Childhood Services: A Colorado Video Story
Families in the San Luis Valley, a rural region in southwestern Colorado, often face obstacles accessing early childhood services. In this video, state, community, and family partners share how they are working together to improve care coordination, expand HealthySteps, build the workforce, and ensure family co-design. Their efforts are helping create more connected services that…
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