By: Paul H. Dworkin, MD I am privileged to have the opportunity to speak with audiences around the country about the dissemination of the Help Me Grow model and its role in early childhood comprehensive system building. Each speaking engagement...
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BY STEPHANIE LUCZAK, LMSW The greatest catalyst to promote children’s optimal healthy development is all of us. A key element of the Help Me Grow system model requires communities to identify and organize existing resources that enhance health and well-being...
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BY KIMBERLY MARTINI-CARVELL Regardless of whether you are considering policy priorities, funding opportunities, workforce development initiatives, health outcomes, or a whole slew of other examples, it is now commonly recognized that our goals are best served by abandoning an “either/or”...
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BY CASSANDRA THERRIAULT, MPH Measuring the effectiveness of our efforts to build strong early childhood systems is not an easy thing to do, but this heavy lift is central to my new role at the Help Me Grow National Center....
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Get to Know an Affiliate is a blog series focused on building affiliate-to-affiliate connections and resource sharing. At the 10th Help Me Grow National Forum, Debra Dudack, Communications Manager at Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health, sat down with...
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Get to Know an Affiliate is a blog series focused on building affiliate-to-affiliate connections and resource sharing. Sarah Zucker recently interviewed the team at Help Me Grow Kansas (HMG-KS). In this interview, you’ll hear from Danielle Brower, Rebecca Gillam, Teri...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Monica Buchanan, Director of Communications (860) 837-5701; mbuchanan@connecticutchildrens.org HELP ME GROW NATIONAL CENTER RECEIVES GENEROUS FUNDING FROM RALPH C. WILSON, JR. FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT 10TH ANNUAL FORUM HARTFORD, Conn. – The Help Me Grow...
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The Help Me Grow National Center recently partnered with ZERO TO THREE’s Think Babies™ Campaign in an effort to strategically promote the needs of infants and toddlers across the country. Stephanie Luczak from the Help Me Grow National Center recently interviewed...
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Join us for the 9th Annual Help Me Grow National Forum! April 4-6, 2018 With record-breaking registration of HMG affiliates across the country, the 2018 Forum will feature three days of content delivered through affiliate-driven breakout sessions, Washington host...
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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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The Center for the Study of Social Policy is expanding their two sister early childhood networks — EC-LINC and Parent Leader Network — and are looking for up to six communities to be part of both networks. CSSP is seeking...
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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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“Our country is at a tipping point, and our children’s futures hang in the balance.” As a member of the National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers – a coalition comprised of more than 2,500 local, state and national organizations representing...
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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...
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BY LYNN PULLANO On December 11, 2020 a novel funding opportunity was issued by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that piqued the interest of Help Me Grow (HMG) affiliates: the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three...
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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...