Engaging Families – Healthy Child Development State Resource Center

March 2020: State Medicaid Policies for Maternal Depression Screening During Well-Child Visits

March 9, 2020/in Addressing Needs, Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, Family, Healthy Child Development, Identifying Children, Making the Case, Medicaid, Parent and Family Resources, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive, Screening Tools Michigan /by kevina

This month, NASHP features updated, interactive maps at its State Medicaid Policies for Maternal Depression Screening During Well-Child Visits resource page. An increasing number of states are adopting an effective, two-generation approach to health by screening for maternal depression during well-child visits. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

November 2019: Final Report of the First 1,000 Days Preventive Pediatric Care Clinical Advisory Group.

November 4, 2019/in Care Coordination, Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, Healthy Child Development, Medicaid, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive /by kevina

This month, we feature NY State’s Final Report of the First 1,000 Days Preventive Pediatric Care Clinical Advisory Group. Learn what NY is doing to address preventive primary care for children and improve population health by implementing innovative early childhood policies and programs through budget appropriations, executive orders, and legislative initiatives. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

Improving Population Health Outcomes – Prevention Change Packages

June 14, 2019/in Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, Measure, Medicaid, Quality in Practice Vermont /by admin

Vermont Department of Health (2017). Guidance document that provides evidence‐based, practical strategies for practitioners in different parts of the healthcare system on how to incorporate prevention in their efforts to improve population health. Clinical and community strategies to improve developmental screening rates are included on pages 25-26.

Reach Out and Read coming to more SoonerCare members

June 14, 2019/in Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, Medicaid Oklahoma /by admin

Jo Stainsby and Katelynn Burns (2018). Press release dated October 31, 2018 describing Oklahoma’s initiative to bring the Reach out and Read program to Medicaid providers. Through this initiative, which is financed through a Health Services Initiative (HSI), providers will be encourages to administer developmental screenings during the well-child visit.

Families as Primary Partners in Their Child’s Development and School Readiness

May 3, 2016/in Engaging Families, Family, National, Parent and Family Resources /by admin

Kathy Seitzinger Hepburn (Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation, December 2004). This toolkit has been created for the Annie E. Casey Foundation to help promote early childhood development and school readiness. The purpose of the tool kit is to provide guidance, resource materials, and references that will assist communities in working with families as primary partners in their child’s development and school readiness.

Selected Terms Related to the Healthy Mental Development of Young Children

May 3, 2016/in Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, EPSDT, National /by admin

NASHP, 2005. Glossary of terms related to child development, Medicaid, Early Intervention, and developmental screening

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Do You Have Concerns about a Child’s Development?

May 3, 2016/in Engaging Families, Family, National, Parent and Family Resources Oregon /by admin

Oregon Dept of Education, 2012. Website with links to the ASQ, Early Intervention, family organizations, and Zero to Three

Utah Medical Home Portal: Developmental Screening page

May 3, 2016/in Engaging Families, Medical Home, National, Pediatrician Utah /by admin

Summary of developmental surveillance and screening, tools, referrals, and resources for primary care providers

Developmental Screening in Early Childhood Systems

May 3, 2016/in Engaging Families, Medical Home, National /by admin

American Academy of Pediatrics (Elk Grove Village, IL: March 2009). Summary of meeting on strategies to improve developmental screening and referral systems

Engaging Parents as Partners to Support Early Child Health and Development

May 3, 2016/in Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, National /by admin

“Nilofer Ahsan, Jill Rosenthal (Portland, Maine: National Academy for State Health Policy, May 2010). This State Health Policy Briefing puts forth a three-part framework for engaging parents in supporting healthy child development: parents engaging with: 1) their child, 2) the services and programs they receive, and 3) the larger systems and policies that govern those services. “