Role: Health Care Practitioners
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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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Early Childhood Social-Emotional Development Billing and Coding
Routine well-child visits are a critical opportunity for pediatric providers to assess family strengths that impact the child’s social-emotional development. When screening for social-emotional concerns, it is important that providers use billing and diagnosis codes to ensure proper documentation and alignment of next steps. This resource was authored by the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems…
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One Big Doable Thing! Elevating Comprehensive Developmental Promotion and Preventive Services With the Family-Engaged Well Visit Planner Approach
On September 10, 2024, the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center hosted a webinar focused on the family-engaged Well Visit Planner. In this webinar, presenters shared how to leverage existing system strengths and implement the Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner approach, which is designed to advance “through any door” health…
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Well Visit Planner®: Creating a Cycle of Family Engagement Using the Well-Visit Planner Approach to Care
The Well Visit Planner® (WVP) digital tool and approach to engaging families in personalized well-child care services builds the capacity of families, communities, and child health primary care, family, and community teams to partner in the joyful work of promoting the healthy development and flourishing of children. Aligned with national Bright Futures Guidelines, the WVP is…
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Engaging Families to Support Early Childhood Development in the Health Center Exam Room and Beyond: CDC’s FREE “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Resources Can Help
This webinar highlighted how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s free “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” resources can help health centers and other professionals engage families in early childhood developmental monitoring.
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One Big Doable Thing! Elevating Comprehensive Developmental Promotion and Preventive Services With the Family-Engaged Well Visit Planner Approach
Promoting the healthy development and flourishing of young children by fostering early relational health is critical for comprehensive well-child services. Despite long-standing recommendations for comprehensive early developmental promotion and prevention services, gaps in access and quality are significant. Join the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center on Tuesday, September 10, 2024,…
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