BY MELISSA PASSARELLI There are several sayings that I keep on a white board near my desk: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”; “It’s about the work, not the worker”; and “You can grow flowers...
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BY: CHELSEA NEELON Hello to the Help Me Grow (HMG) National Affiliate Network! My name is Chelsea Neelon, and I joined the HMG National Center team in February of this year. You may have seen my initial introduction email, some...
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BY: MELISSA MILLER “Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.” – William Bruce Cameron, Sociologist, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking Having worked in the measurement and evaluation field for over...
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BY: SARAH ZUCKER I’d like to introduce you to the Network Relations team here at the Help Me Grow (HMG) National Center! You might have met me, Sarah Zucker, at some point over the last seven years and maybe in...
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BY MORGAN REISS The Help Me Grow National Center, in partnership with the Association of University Centers on Disabilities, is proud to announce the release of A Roadmap for Advancing Family-Engaged Developmental Monitoring (FEDM). Family-engaged developmental monitoring is an intentional...
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BY MORGAN REISS Historically, the field of early identification has been narrowly understood through the lens of early intervention: developmental concerns, delays, risk factors, and disorders must be identified and corrected as soon as possible in young children to re-align...
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BY MORGAN REISS Child care workers were considered essential employees during the height of the pandemic, but the value implied by that label is not being reflected in funding choices. Given the opportunity to drastically expand access to child care...
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BY: SARAH ZUCKER The Help Me Grow (HMG) National Center envisions early childhood systems that share power with the families they serve, are driven by co-developed goals, and enhance conditions for promoting equity and inclusiveness. This is a vision. And...
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BY PAUL H. DWORKIN The recent publication of an article, “Evidence-Informed Milestones for Developmental Surveillance Tools,” in the journal, Pediatrics, has attracted considerable attention from pediatricians, early care and education providers, and parents. I am hopeful that the interest in...
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BY DR. PAUL DWORKIN & KIMBERLY MARTINI-CARVELL A 1997 pilot study in Hartford, CT showed promising results. Other states took notice, a National Center was born, and communities across the country began implementing the HMG Model. Twenty years later, a...