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Provider Outreach – Community Supports and Services

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...

Strategies to Effectively Engage Medical Providers

Strategies to Effectively Engage Medical Providers

Lay the groundwork Learn about the medical world, including the culture, language, and realities of the medical providers in your community. Build relationships with providers, clinics and organizations over time. Recognize and acknowledge barriers, and clearly define...

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...

Developmental Screening Overview

Developmental Screening Overview

Developmental screening is an indispensable tool for detecting children at developmental risk. However, it is of value only to the extent that it is paired with developmental surveillance and with linkage to appropriate and effective programs and services. The...

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...