By Paul H. Dworkin, MD and Sharon Beaudoin As debate rages on as to how best reform our health care system, we ask, “What about our children?” It’s a question likely on the minds of the more than 400 child health advocates...
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FROM THE FIELD When Collective Impact Has an Impact A new report on collective impact from ORS Impact and the Spark Policy Institute addresses the question, to what extent and under what conditions does the collective impact approach contribute...
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I often characterize my career as the relentless pursuit of the answer to the question, “How do we strengthen child health services to promote children’s optimal healthy development?” I typically view this work in 3 stages: early efforts during the...
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By Paul Dworkin, MD Authors of Can Measures Change the World? are challenging us to not measure more, but instead focus our collective efforts on finding measures that accurately represent systems (the whole). Little attention or energy is dedicated to...
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Erin Cornell, MPH, Von Jessee, MA, and Paul Dworkin, MD Very often we are asked the question “what is the evidence base for Help Me Grow?” When Help Me Grow (HMG) was first introduced as ChildServ in 1997, a number...
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FROM THE FIELD Congress Funds CHIP Through March Congress has agreed to inject nearly $3 billion into the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to preserve funding through March. The money is included in a short-term spending bill to keep the...
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FROM THE FIELD Publication – The New Importance of Children in America: A Wake-up Call for Policymakers Massive demographic changes create challenges, elevate economic role of next generation Ensuring children’s health and well-being in the U.S. has never...
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From The Field Strengthening Families Is Seeking Your HMG Input How do you use the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework in your work? Where do you see needs and opportunities in your community to apply a protective factors approach?...
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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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In his latest blog post, Dr. Paul Dworkin shares the successes from a dynamic partnership between United Healthcare and Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health supported by a $1 million dollar grant awarded by the insurer in 2014. A...