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Family & Community – Community Outreach and Marketing

Gap Analysis

Gap Analysis

The gap analysis is a simple tool to help identify the gap between a current situation and the future state that you want to reach, along with the tasks that must be completed to close this gap. Analyze your current situation For each of your objectives, analyze your...

Assessing Champion Potential

Examples of Roles and Responsibilities of Champions Attends Community Implementation Team meetings.Often described as a voluntary leadership role, opinion leader, a change agent, and an individual who influences colleagues and friends.An expert who provides education,...

What is Developmental Surveillance

What is Developmental Surveillance

Components of developmental surveillance eliciting and attending to parental concernsdocumenting and maintaining a developmental historyobserving the childidentifying risks and protective factorsmaintaining an accurate record of findings over time, which includes...

The Five Whys Exercise

The Five Whys Exercise

Objective To identify the root causes of problems and barriers related to early identification and referral in the community. If, after reviewing the Community Readiness Assessment and results of the Scan of Current Screening Practices, the Community Implementation...

SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis

A Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat (SWOT) analysis guides you to identify the positives and negatives inside your organization (S-W) and outside of it, in the external environment (O-T). SWOT is a simple way to identify the issues or problems you intend to...

Root Causes of Problems and Barriers

Root Causes of Problems and Barriers

Identifying the root cause of problems/barriers can help determine why there is a difference between the desired vision and what is currently happening. Using the following table, identify what problems or barriers exist and then determine the root cause of those...

Questions to Consider for Identifying Outreach Efforts

Questions to Consider for Identifying Outreach Efforts

Where/ who do families reach out to in your community when they have a question or need?What community events are focused on children and families (i.e. back to school fairs, community baby showers, festivals, etc.).Who is coordinating or hosting these events? What...

Physician-to-Physician Outreach – Examples from Kansas

Physician-to-Physician Outreach – Examples from Kansas

Example 1: Community Connections Lead to Increased Screening One nurse practitioner became interested in participating in opportunities for training and incorporating developmental screening into her practice after the community engagement representative from her...

Physician-to-Physician Outreach – Examples from Connecticut

Physician-to-Physician Outreach – Examples from Connecticut

Example 1One pediatric provider called the Help Me Grow Connecticut office after on-site training had been completed to invite staff to a monthly pediatric community provider meeting at the local hospital. The provider believed that other practices in the community...

Finding Your ‘Why’

Finding Your ‘Why’

Community Liaisons are encouraged to identify a personal ‘why’ before engaging with partners to define a community vision. A personal ‘why’ includes your values and dreams for the world as well as clarifies your own reasons for engaging in this work. Spend some time...

Developmental Screening Tools

Developmental Screening Tools

The ASQ-3 and ASQ-SE-2 are developmental screening tools that look at how children are doing in important areas, such as speech, physical ability, social skills, problem solving, and social-emotional development. The ASQ-3 and ASQ: SE-2 can help identify a child’s...

Continuing Education and Training

Continuing Education and Training

Continuing education and training for physicians and providers are important components of community work. Proper training and regular continuing education ensure that providers are receiving the most up-to-date information regarding scientific advancement, protocol,...

Community Resource Directory

Community Resource Directory

A connected community relies on an extensive directory of community-based resources and programs, and the Community Liaison is responsible for keeping this resource directory up-to-date.  The resource directory includes, at minimum, the following supports and...

Community Readiness Assessment

Community readiness is the capacity of a community to implement programs, policies, and other changes designed to address a social issue. The Community Readiness Assessment gathers information about readiness from community members and leverages the results for the...

Community Partner Examples

Community Partner Examples

Identifying community partners should include the widest possible net in order to ensure that everyone who may have interest and/or involvement is invited to attend. This includes educators, mental health providers, medical providers, and more. Engage in conversations...

Bright Futures

Bright Futures

Bright Futures is a national health promotion and prevention initiative, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics and supported, in part, by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)​, Maternal and...