Topic: Financing

  • July 2026 Newsletter: New Tools and Stories for Stronger Early Childhood Systems

    Access our newsletter here, or click the “Download” button above for a PDF version. July 2026 Newsletter Highlights

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Tools for Developing Sustainable Policy, Financing, and Payment Strategies

    This toolkit offers a range of practical resources to help organizations finance programs and strategies that support the health of young children. The toolkit can be used by early childhood professionals and teams that support pediatric practices to advance early childhood developmental services, such as health department administrators and program managers. The sections of this…

  • Strengthening Early Childhood Systems: Applied Strategies From the Water of Systems Change Framework

    Grounded in The Water of Systems Change framework, this resource series outlines strategies for six interconnected conditions to drive meaningful and lasting early childhood systems change: policies, practices, resource flows, relationships and connections, power dynamics, and mental models. Each resource offers research- and expert-informed strategies, along with practical actions, that state and local health systems…

  • December 2025 Newsletter: A Year of Systems-Building Connections, Resources, and Insights

    Access our December 2025 newsletter here, or click the “Download” button above for a PDF version. December 2025 Newsletter Highlights

  • December 2024 Newsletter: Continuing Our Work to Advance Systems, Services, and Care

    Access our December 2024 newsletter here or click the Download button above for a PDF version. December 2024 Newsletter Highlights

  • Administration for Children & Families Webinar: New Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Funding Compendium

    Join the Administration for Children & Families’ Office of Early Childhood Development on Thursday, December 5, 3-4 PM ET, for an overview webinar about their new resource, the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Funding Compendium. The Office of Early Childhood Development released this resource to support states, territories, Tribes, and local communities in…

  • Partner Event: Virtual Town Hall on New Medicaid EPSDT Guidance

    Join leaders from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) for a virtual town hall event on Monday, November 18 at 5 PM ET, with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders to discuss new federal guidance about how Medicaid’s…

  • New EPSDT Guidance

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new guidance, Best Practices for Adhering to Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) Requirements, regarding coverage requirements for eligible children and youth who are enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. The guidance discusses policies, strategies, and best practices to maximize health and opens a…

  • 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…

  • Partner Event: Help Me Grow National Forum Week 2023

    Help Me Grow National Forum Week 2023 is an exciting opportunity for leaders and partners invested in early childhood system-building efforts to come together, network, learn from one another, and develop new and supportive professional connections from across the nation.

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