Engaging Families – Healthy Child Development State Resource Center

January 2021: South Carolina Announces $7 Million in Early Childhood Funding

January 11, 2021/in Addressing Needs, Engaging Families, Family, Healthy Child Development, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive /by kevina

December 2020: NASHP Updates Outreach and Training Resources for Providers and Families

December 8, 2020/in Addressing Needs, Developmental Screening, Engaging Families, Family, Healthy Child Development, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive /by kevina

NASHP has updated its developmental screening Outreach and Training state resource list for providers and families. Making developmental screening widely available to children requires providers and families to be familiar with screening tools, their use, and their value. State outreach and education are essential to ensure children receive appropriate screening and follow-up services. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center, https://healthychild.nashp.org/. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

June 2020: Promoting Children’s Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

June 2, 2020/in Addressing Needs, COVID-19, Engaging Families, Family, Healthy Child Development, Improving Policy, Parent and Family Resources, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive /by kevina

This month, NASHP features a Child Trends resource, Ways to Promote Children’s Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The resource explores protective factors that can contribute to children’s adaptability in the face of adversity. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

May 2020: California’s ACES Aware Offers Resources to Mitigate COVID-19 Stress

May 1, 2020/in Addressing Needs, COVID-19, Engaging Families, Family, Parent and Family Resources, Primary Medical Care, Resource of the Month Archive California /by kevina

This month, NASHP features resources from California’s ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Aware on COVID-19 and stress. The pandemic is creating a stressful environment for children and their caregivers and these resources that detail how to mitigate the impact of stress on physical and mental health are for health care providers and their patients. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

April 2020: Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-Being during the Pandemic

April 7, 2020/in Addressing Needs, COVID-19, Engaging Families, Family, Healthy Child Development, National, Parent and Family Resources, Resource of the Month Archive /by kevina

This month, NASHP features resources from Child Trends’ Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of traumatic events like COVID-19 that disrupt their daily lives. These resources will help states, providers, and caregivers address the challenges children face. View other resources at the Healthy Child Development State Resource Center. Submit new resources to ehiggins@nashp.org.

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.