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 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...
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BY DR. PAUL DWORKIN With great sadness, I share my reflections on the passing of our dear friend and beloved colleague, Joanna Bogin. As many of you know, Joanna was the first manager of the Help Me Grow (HMG) National...
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Leveraging Existing Resources to Implement the Help Me Grow Model All children benefit from an organized system of community resources to help them thrive, like health care, quality early learning experiences, healthy nutrition, and parent support. However, when the system...
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BY KIMBERLY MARTINI-CARVELL While acknowledging the successful development of the HMG National Network and its support in proliferating efficient, effective, comprehensive early childhood systems across the country, there is both significant need and opportunity to hasten the growth of an...
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BY DR. PAUL DWORKIN I have long characterized our work over many decades as the relentless pursuit of the answer to the question, “How do we best transform child health services to strengthen families to promote children’s optimal health, development,...
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To accelerate the Help Me Grow National Affiliate Network’s growth and impact, the Help Me Grow National Center has engaged in strategic planning to research and articulate strategic growth priorities for the next five years and define the “full potential”...
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By Jacquelyn M. Rose, MPH and Kimberly Martini-Carvell, MA While all four Core Components of the Help Me Grow Model are integral to its implementation and ultimate success within a community, the Centralized Access Point (CAP) is perhaps the most...
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BY: ERIN CORNELL AND PAUL H. DWORKIN Child Health Provider Outreach is a Core Component of the Help Me Grow (HMG) Model, however we understand that engaging the health care community can be difficult for HMG affiliates for a number...
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BY ERIN CORNELL At the Help Me Grow (HMG) National Center, we are so encouraged by the growth of our National Affiliate Network each year, expanding to new states and communities, engaging more and more partners, and most importantly, serving...