Role: Health Care Practitioners
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Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care in Clinical Practice
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…
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Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 1: Early Childhood Development Promotion and Prevention
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…
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Learning Network Takeaways: Strategies, Ideas, and Resources for Community Health Centers
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…
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Identifying What Builds Family Trust in Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems
While there is a growing understanding that a child’s first few years strongly impact their future health and success, evidence suggests that access to necessary care and services remains limited.1 For example, of the children referred to IDEA Part C (a federal early intervention program for young children with disabilities) between July 2021 and June…
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Getting Started Guide: Implementing a Screening Process
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…
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National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
In recognition of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week from May 5-11, 2025, help spread the word about the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Maternal Mental Health Hotline (1-833-TLC-MAMA). The hotline is a free and confidential service offering 24/7 support via call or text to new and expecting moms and their loved ones. It is…
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Flourishing in Action: A Texas Health Center’s Approach to Transforming Care by Engaging Families and Promoting Early Relational Health
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.…
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Helping Community Health Centers Enhance Early Childhood Developmental Services: Highlights From a Needs Assessment Survey
In November 2023, the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center disseminated a needs assessment survey with 151 community health centers funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to enhance early childhood developmental (ECD) screenings, follow-up services, and integrated ECD care team expertise. In support of this ECD grant, we provide technical assistance to help the…
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