Topic: Care Coordination and Linkage
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HealthySteps Specialist Competencies
ZERO TO THREE’s HealthySteps National Office developed this guide to clearly define key knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for responsive, culturally attuned clinical best practices specific to the HealthySteps Specialist role.
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Recommendations on Developmental Screening Follow-up Practices and Policies for Federal, State, and Community Level Stakeholders
This brief explores challenges of the early childhood service delivery system and offers recommendations for federal, state, and community-level policy and systems change to ensure children and families receive help when developmental delays are present.
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Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! Child Health Care Providers: A Systems Approach to Developmental Promotion, Surveillance, Referral and Linkage to Services
This guide describes the role of medical professionals in supporting a systems approach to early childhood developmental promotion, screening, referral, and linkage to services.
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Help Me Grow National General Session: Family-Engaged Developmental Monitoring
This recorded presentation covers the role of family-engaged developmental monitoring (FEDM) in advancing parent voice and equity.
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Considerations in System of Care Expansion: Expanding Early Childhood Systems of Care
This technical assistance tool outlines five strategies for expanding early childhood systems of care.
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Early Childhood Systems of Care: Lessons from the Field
This document highlights challenges in developing early childhood systems of care and offers guidance on how to address those challenges.
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Mid-Level Developmental Assessment: The MLDA Framework
This report provides an overview of the Mid-Level Developmental Assessment (MLDA) model and its implementation.
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Evaluating Model Programs to Support Dissemination: An Evaluation of Strengthening the Developmental Surveillance and Referral Practices of Child Health Providers
This article evaluates a project designed to educate Connecticut’s community-based child health providers in the early detection and identification of childhood developmental and behavioral concerns.
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Birth to 5: Watch Me Thrive! An Early Care and Education Provider’s Guide for Developmental and Behavioral Screening
This guide describes the role of early care and education providers in supporting a systems approach to early childhood developmental promotion, screening, referral, and linkage to services.
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Towards a Critical Reframing of Early Detection and Intervention for Developmental Concerns
This article discusses the research, evaluation, and communication efforts behind the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Learn the Signs. Act Early” (LTSAE) campaign.
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