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Improving Care Coordination and Service Linkages to Support Healthy Child Development: Early Lessons and Recommendations from a Five-State Consortium
Care coordination | Linkages | State Health

This report summarizes early findings from the current Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD III) learning collaborative of five states. Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon are testing models to strengthen linkages and care coordination between pediatric primary care providers and community-based...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
June 2011
Improving the Lives of Young Children: Opportunities for Care Coordination and Case Management for Children Receiving Services for Developmental Delay
Care coordination | Children's coverage | Linkages

This brief, written by NASHP policy specialist Carrie Hanlon and produced by the Urban Institute ,examines states' Medicaid and CHIP policy choices and new opportunities under health reform and other federal legislation to develop a well-coordinated system of care for children receiving Early Intervention (EI) and other ongoing services...

Carrie Hanlon, Program Manager
December 2010
Engaging Parents as Partners to Support Early Child Health and Development
Care coordination | Children's coverage | Early childhood services | Health reform & children
Ensuring and coordinating services that support young children's healthy development requires strong and effective partnerships between families and health care providers. This brief puts forth a three-part framework for engaging parents in supporting healthy child development: parents engaging with: 1) their child, 2) the services and programs...
Nilofer Ahsan
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
May 2010
State Strategies for Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages for Young Children: A Scan of State Medicaid. Title V, And Part C Agencies
Linkages | Primary care | State Health
NASHP conducted this scan of states in order to better identify and understand what states are doing through variously funded early child health and development agencies to promote better care coordination, case management, and linkages to services for young children. The scan was designed to elicit strategies used by the three state agencies to...
Kitty Purington, Policy Specialist
December 2009
The National Research Council/Institute of Medicine’s Adolescent Health Services: Highlights and Considerations for State Health Policymakers
Primary care | State roles | System performance | Youth
In May 2006, the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine’s (NRC/IOM’s) Board on Children, Youth and Families (BCYF) convened the Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care for Treatment, Prevention, and Healthy Development. With funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the committee conducted a study of...
Jill Rosenthal, Program Director
September 2009