Topic: Family Engagement and Leadership
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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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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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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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