Illinois’ ABCD III project, Illinois Healthy Beginnings II: Coordinating Medical Homes and Community Services, builds upon a very successful ABCD II experience. Illinois Medicaid has a track record of coordination and collaboration with Title V and WIC programs, the public health infrastructure, and many stakeholders. Since the end of ABCD II Illinois has continued to work to assure healthy development of young children and have implemented other complementary initiatives, such as Illinois Health Connect (an enhanced PCCM program that promotes access to medical homes). This offers a strong foundation to support ABCD III goals. Illinois has identified two issues to address in their ABCD III initiative: (1) Identify the best, sustainable practices for ensuring effective referrals and linkages are made across screening, referral, and treatment/prevention programs, and (2) Ensure that all children are linked to the services that best fit their unique needs.
| Title | Description | Date Published | Activity |
| Illinois Early Intervention Referral Form | (Illinois ABCD III Project) This is Illinois' most recent iteration of its form to refer children to EI for eligibility determination. | April 2011 | Addressing Needs and Testing Models |
| Illinois Early Intervention Program, Child and Family Connections Referral Follow-up Form | (Illinois ABCD III Project) This form is used to provide a summary on the status of a referral to the EI system point of entry (Child and Family Connections). | April 2011 | Addressing Needs and Testing Models |
| Illinois Survey of PCPs | (Illinois ABCD III Project) Illinois sent this survey to PCPs, asking specifically about the screening that they were doing and who is paying for it. | December 2010 | Addressing Needs and Engaging Leaders |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Evaluation: Lessons Learned - Providers | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource is a list of interview questions for pilot site providers and office staff - part of an overall evaluation to learn more about their experience with the ABCD project. The questions focus on successes and challenges in the implementation of social-emotional and maternal depression screening. | December 2006 | Testing Models |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Evaluation: Lessons Learned--Stakeholders | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource lists interview questions for the Healthy Mental Development panel workgroup and subcommittee members regarding their overall experience with the ABCD project. | December 2006 | Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Pediatric Practice Social/Emotional (S/E) and Maternal Depression Questionnaire | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This survey is the final questionnaire for pediatric practices on their use of Social/Emotional (S/E) and Maternal Depression screening. | December 2006 | Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Social/Emotional Consultant Consultation Satisfaction Survey | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource is a satisfaction survey given to providers who recently used a Social/Emotional Consultant to access follow-up services for a patient. | December 2006 | Addressing Needs |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Social-Emotional Screening Card | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This document was designed for Illinois ABCD pilot sites to track implementation and results of social-emotional screening. | December 2006 | Testing Models |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings: Parent Satisfaction Survey | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This survey was given to parents who had completed the ASQ:SE to evaluate their satisfaction with the instrument. | December 2006 | Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation |
| New Office-Based Resources on Child Development/Mental Health Issues, Flyer | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This announcement details a training presented by EDOCP and the ABCD project. This developmentally oriented continuing medical education (CME) opportunity was designed for pediatricians and family physicians. | December 2006 | Spreading Results |
| State of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Contract for Furnishing Health Services by a Managed Care Organization | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource outlines policy improvements made during the ABCD project to Managed Care Contracts in Illinois. Please see highlighted sections of contract for specific improvements requiring use of standardized developmental and social emotional screening during EPSDT visits, risk assessment or perinatal depression screening during maternity care, as well as related quality improvement and performance payment projects. | December 2006 | Improving Policy |
| EDOPC Developmental Screening and Referral | (Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care/ EDOPC) This resource provides an outline and PowerPoint slide images of the Developmental Screening and Referral program, a 1.5 hour presentation designed to be presented in the office/clinic setting to all staff by a trained healthcare provider. | December 2006 | Spreading Results |
| Illinois' 2005 Perinatal/Postnatal Evaluation Tool for Maternal Depression Screening | (Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services) This evaluative resource identifies the percentage of enrolled women that were screened for depression - as documented in the medical record - during the prenatal and/or postpartum period. In addition, the study was designed to collect data on whether or not treatment and follow-up occurred if the screening was positive for depression. | December 2005 | Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation |
| ABCD/Healthy Beginnings Social/Emotional and Maternal Depression Information, Screening, and Referral Program Needs Assessment Form | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This needs assessment was performed at pilot sites prior to each Healthy Beginnings training/presentation on social emotional screening implementation to assess the needs of each practice/clinic and tailor the program presentation to fit the needs identified in the survey responses. | December 2005 | Testing Models |
| Illinois Healthy Beginnings Provider Knowledge Survey | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource is a brief 10 question survey for providers about social/emotional and maternal depression issues for children and families. | December 2005 | Identifying Children and Families at Risk |
| Parent Satisfaction with Edinburgh Survey | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) This resource is a survey of parent experience with standardized maternal depression screening. | December 2005 | Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation |
| Healthy Beginnings: The Illinois ABCD II Initiative: Core Elements of the Primary Care Social Emotional Pilot | (Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings) The Illinois ABCD Initiative included a social emotional pilot project to test the integration of a social emotional component/protocol into three primary health care sites. There were core elements of the social emotional component/model that all three pilot sites implemented. The evaluation process will include identifying how these elements are implemented differently based on the characteristics of each site. | December 2004 | Testing Models |
| Screening for Perinatal Depression - Informational Notice | (Illinois Department of Public Aid) This informational notice from IL DPA to practitioners outlines screening protocols for perinatal depression and provides information on DPA's initiation of reimbursement for screening for perinatal depression and information about consultation services available to providers. | November 2004 | Spreading Results |
| Informational Notice to Providers | (Illinois Department of Public Aid) The purpose of this notice is to provide clarification on the billing of objective screenings and assessments under the departments Healthy Kids program and to advise providers of the Department's acceptance of the Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) Adolescent Screening Tool. | February 2004 | Improving Policy |
| Handbook For Healthy Kids Services: Appendix 1: Anticipatory Guidance Topics |
(Illinois Department of Public Aid) This handbook section provides information about well child visits and screening for providers. |
April 2002 | Improving Policy |
