Each year, the Annie e. Casey Foundation publishes the KIDS COUNT Data Book, which tracks the well-being of our nation’s children, state by state. As we release this year’s Data Book, our 23rd, America’s children and families face a crossroad....
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This month’s Help Me Grow Champion Series features Help Me Grow-California’s Patsy Hampton. As California Project LAUNCH director and HMG-California Manager, Patsy discusses the challenges of expanding Help Me Grow statewide, and the ways HMG is improving the services for at-risk children in California.
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Read about Help Me Grow in Child Health and Development Institute’s recent issue brief.
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David W Willis, MD, FAAP has been announced as the new Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Director of the Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Services (DHVECS). Dr. Willis is leaving his post as the Medical Director and...
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This month’s Help Me Grow Champion Series features two of HMG-Oregon’s Physician Champions. Drs. Alderman and Gillespie discuss their involvement with Help Me Grow and the ways it has enhanced their services to families and strengthened collaboration with other providers...
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To promote a more coordinated approach to meeting children’s developmental needs, the brief proposes the adoption of the SERIES paradigm of developmental screening in which each step—Screening, Early identification, Referral, Intake, Evaluation and eligibility, and Services—is seen not as an...
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The purchasing power of Medicaid can be a significant policy lever for promoting early childhood home visiting program quality and improving child health outcomes. Supported by the Pew Home Visiting Campaign, NASHP conducted a scan of state policies and practices...
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The Community Services Locator is an online directory for finding services for children, adolescents, and families in the communities in which they live. The new edition of the locator was developed by the Maternal and Child Health Library (MCH Library)...
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Many young children spend significant time in the care of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers, in particular infants and toddlers and children from low-income families. Home visiting models across the country are including FFN caregivers as a strategy for...
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Executive Summary of findings from a survey of American Physicians.