Help Me Grow, the Diffusion of Innovation , and Early Childhood System Building Paul H. Dworkin, MD BUILD Pre-Conference at the National Smart Start Conference Greensboro, NC May 4, 2015
• Children with developmental/behavioral problems are eluding early detection • Many initiatives exist to provide services to young children, their families • A gap exists between child health and child development/early childhood education programs • Children and their families would benefit from a coordinated, region-wide system of early detection, intervention for children at developmental risk
Core Components Community & Family Centralized Telephone Access Point Outreach Child Health Provider Data Collection & Outreach Analysis Continuous Statewide Quality Organizing Entity Expansion Improvement Structural Requirements
www.helpmegrownational.org
Current : Developmental Surveillance & Screening Parents’ Children Children Children with a concerns screened referred need identified elicited appropriately appropriately receive appropriate services in appropriate timeframe Continuous Quality Organizing Entity Proposed name change: Improvement Developmental promotion, early detection and intervention
• Family strengthening of protective factors PRIMARY DRIVERS • Early detection of vulnerable children • Linkage of children and families to community-based resources • Comprehensive system building through collective impact • Population-wide data collection
Help Me Grow National Network Diffusion of Innovations CCC MLDA (Care (Mid-Level Coordination Developmental Collaborative) Assessment)
• PARENTAL RESILIENCE • SOCIAL CONNECTIONS • KNOWLEDGE of PARENTING and CHILD DEVELOPMENT • CONCRETE SUPPORT in TIMES of NEED • SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE of CHILDREN
Child Health Services
Our ‘new’ knowledge of early brain/child development and the biology of adversity demands that we redefine the content and process of interventions to promote children’s healthy development .
Evidenced-based interventions, such as Help Me Grow, are best viewed in the context of the building of comprehensive systems supporting young children’s healthy development.
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