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A New Roadmap on Collaborating Equitably with Families in Early Childhood
1/16/23

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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Marketing, Policy
HMG Florida – Advocacy Videos
7/21/22

Help Me Grow Florida developed a series of five advocacy videos to promote the HMG system to legislators, families, and prospective partners. One video is geared towards legislative advocacy to support our legislative request of additional funding that would allow...

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Help Me Grow National Blog, Building Infrastructure, Policy
The Time is Now
3/30/21

We did not need a global pandemic, devastated economy, exhausted public health and human service infrastructure, and a spate of concurrent racist murders across the country to make us face reality. BY KIMBERLY MARTINI-CARVELL In the recent publication Child Health...

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Policy, Research & Evaluation
Central Referral Systems Help Reduce Contributors to Family Toxic Stress
7/23/20

Evaluating Community Approaches to Preventing or Mitigating Toxic Stress Research Brief 5 Getting connected: Referrals for Family Support in Early Childhood Parents and other caregivers often ask their children’s health and early care providers for parenting advice. They may also trust these professionals to offer reliable information about...

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Funding, Policy
Transforming Pediatrics to Support Population Health: Recommendations for Practice Changes and How to Pay for It
1/3/20

Transforming pediatrics to support population health Can redesigning pediatric primary care improve child and adult health? A new report and accompanying policy brief from CHDI and the Connecticut Health Foundation make the case for redesigning pediatric primary care to play a...

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Policy, Research & Evaluation
Building Capacity: Using Research and Data to Address the Needs of Substance-Exposed Infants and the Role of Help Me Grow
6/21/19

Presentation Slides

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Data Collection & Analysis, Funding, Policy, Research & Evaluation
Building Capacity: Using Administrative Data to Demonstrate HMG Impact
6/21/19

Presentation Slides Help Me Grow Alameda County 1-Pager

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Help Me Grow National Blog, Policy, Research & Evaluation
What’s Dr. Dworkin Reading? Validating the Wisdom of a “Good-Enough” Childhood
1/16/19

I now realize that I have long subscribed to the notion of “a good-enough childhood,” both in my personal life and my work as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician. My underlying belief is that most children who experience a nurturing, warm, motivating...

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Policy
Strategies to Promote Healthy Development in Young Children: Lessons from Exemplary Programs
6/4/18

The HMG National Center participated in a two-year project lead by the Child and Family Policy Center focused on Health Equity and Young Children. Along with 11 other identified exemplary programs, we contributed to the thinking around care coordination, community...

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Centralized Access Point, Data Collection & Analysis, Family & Community Outreach, Health Care Provider Outreach, HMG National Forum 2018, Marketing, Partnerships, Policy
Poster Session
4/25/18

Books, Balls & Blocks Alexandra Goldberg- HMG Florida The poster will reflect how Help Me Grow Florida has implemented the Books, Balls, & Blocks initiative throughout the state. The poster will review what a screening event is and looks like,...

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