Spreading Results

Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (Illinois EDOPC, 2009). This resource consists of an outline and the PowerPoint slide images of the Social/Emotional Screening and Referral program, a 1.5 hour Continuing Medical Education training program designed to be presented in the office/clinic setting to all staff by a trained healthcare provider.

Arkansas ABCD Screening Academy Project (2008). Strategies and action steps for Arkansas' ABCD Project to promote statewide spread of innovations.

Virginia Infant and Toddler Connection (2008). 2-page brochure aimed at providers describing the referral options provided by The Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia, which assists families of infants and toddlers with developmental delays and/or disabilities help their children learn and develop through everyday activities and routines so that they can participate fully in family and community activities. Brochure provides information on referrals and phone numbers for Infant & Toddler Connection offices in various locations around the state.

California ABCD Screening Academy Project (2008). Table outlining ABCD Screening Academy project goals, strategies to achieve goals, measures to collect to evaluate progress, baseline data, and whether and what agency has data available.

Ohio ABCD Screening Academy Project (2008). Ohio's ABCD Screening Academy Preliminary Spread Plan. These preliminary designs for implementation and spread of structured developmental assessment of young children in Ohio are under review.

Ohio ABCD Screening Academy Project (2008). Ohio's ABCD Screening Academy Preliminary Measurement Plan. These screening recommendations are under review due to the release of the 2008 AAP Periodicity Schedule.

Virginia ABCD Screening Academy Project (2008). Referral consent form for physicians to complete when referring a child to early intervention. Includes option for providers to indicate the feedback they want to receive from the early intervention program in response to the referral.

Iowa Care for Kids EPSDT (2007) The resource can be used by providers to ensure that children who require developmental and physical supports are identified early and referred to services. It provides an age-specific format for the clinical examination that emphasizes developmental milestones and provides anticipatory guidance. 

North Carolina ABCD I Project Provider Survey Evaluation. This survey was distributed to family practice and pediatric providers in three categories and analyzed according to a specific protocol. The survey instrument consists of questions designed to measure the provider’s perception of their individual knowledge and attitudes regarding developmental screening tools, early intervention services, and particular federal laws.

Washington State Department of Social and Health Resources (2007) This Early Intervention website provides useful information on appropriate developmental milestones as well as services available to parents and providers.

Ohio ABCD Project (2007) Description of preliminary design for implementation and spread of structured developmental assessment of young children in Ohio.

Kevin Marks and Hollie Hix-Small (2007) PowerPoint presentation amended from a doctoral dissertation originally presented by Hollie Hix-Small, PhD. Provides information on why, where, and when to do developmental screening.

Melinda Abrams (July 2007). This PowerPoint presentation from the ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session provides an overview of the process of implementing a strategy for increasing developmental screening rates.

North Carolina ABCD Project. (March 2007). This PowerPoint presentation highlights the success and accomplishments of the North Carolina ABCD initiative, as well as ongoing project replication activities.

Iowa Department of Human Services, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (Jan 11, 2007). This resource is an informational release to physicians, nurse practitioners, and screening centers regarding payment for use of standardized screening tools. Payment for a standardized screening tool is not included in the reimbursement for a child’s preventive office visit or E/M service. The letter also describes the appropriate billing codes to use for services.

Iowa ABCD Project (2006). Educational objectives for a provider training on the revised approach to child health care delivered through the Medicaid EPSDT program. The training was held at Pella Medical Clinic, March 16, 29 & 30, 2006.

Iowa's ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Initiative. (2006). This draft document (for reveiw by providers) is a set of recommendations for protocols and tools to help providers implement standards of care that will appropriately identify developmental and social-emotional concerns in children from birth through 3 years who participate in Medicaid.

Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings. (2006). 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.

Katherine Murray, Andrew Barnes, Marjorie Ireland, et al. (Minnesota ABCD Project, 2006). This study assesses the specific techniques and instruments primary care pediatricians and family practitioners use to detect emotional and behavioral problems and describes their beliefs about the prevalence of these problems and barriers to universal screening. (From Abstract.)

Utah Medhome. (2006) This website was developed during the ABCD initiative in Utah. It provides information, tools, and resources to aid Primary Care Physicians in caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and providing a Medical Home for all of their patients. (From Website.)

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.

Jane Borst. (Iowa Department of Health, July 7, 2006). This proposal outlines steps to improve the quality of well child services by conducting professional development activities for primary care providers who care for infants and children. This proposal was presented to the Empowerment Professional Development Planning Committee to spread the adoption of the standards for developmental screening to primary health care providers throughout Iowa. This proposal was later awarded $75,000.00.

North Carolina ABCD Project. (June 2006). This newsletter provides an overview of relevant information for Medicaid providers in North Carolina. Through resources such as this newsletter, Community Care provider networks are working to put into place the local systems needed to achieve long-term quality, cost, access and utilization objectives in the management of care for Medicaid recipients.

Iowa Department of Human Services, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (February 2006). A web site containing useful tools, resources, and links for providing EPSDT services with special emphasis on promoting healthy physical, mental, social, and emotional development of children birth through age three. 

http://www.iowaepsdt.org/

Web-resource. Copyright © 2005 by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement and by the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program at the University of Vermont.  A Practical Guide for Healthy Development consists of a set of materials and tools designed and tested in the Healthy Development Learning Collaborative, a 12-month quality improvement initiative.

Iowa ABCD Project (2005). Agendas for three training sessions organized to explain the purpose of the ABCD II project and to assist Dubuque health care and other personnel to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to include standardized screening and referral guidelines in daily practice.

Iowa's ABCD II Project. (2005). This document lists anticipated questions and answers regarding the ABCD II project. This resources seeks to address unanswered questions as to how the early development of young children, and their families, can be coordinated and improved. (From Introduction)

Glenace Edwall and Antonia Wilcoxon. (Minnesota Department of Human Services, July 26, 2005). This PowerPoint presentation was delivered at a session at the Early Childhood Mental Health Summer Institute and was designed to educate providers on improving access to follow-up services.

Iowa ABCD Project (January 2005) Formal guidelines for implementation of standardized screening and referral practices used in demonstration sites and to be considered in the eventual development of a statewide system.

William Hensel. (Greensboro, NC: Guilford Access Partnership, Guilford County Department of Public Health, 2004). Letter from William Hensel, Medical Director of the Guilford Access Partnership, to Sherry Hay, North Carolina's ABCD Coordinator, describing the successes of the ABCD I program implementation.

Illinois Department of Public Aid. (November 30, 2004). 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.  

Marian Earls. (Greensboro, NC: Guilford Child Health, Inc., April 2004). This letter from a pilot site provider was sent to peers and colleagues in an effort to promote the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire.

(North Carolina ABCD I Project, 2004). This brochure was used as an introductory informational guide for providers on the Ages and Stages Questionnaire.

Michael Jellinek, Chair. (Washington, D.C., National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 2002). This resource is a two-volume set that considers the mental health of children in a developmental context, presents information on early recognition and intervention for specific mental health problems and mental disorders, and provides a tool kit with hands on tools for health professionals and families for use in screening, care management, and health education. (From web overview)

NASHP (Portland, ME: National Academy for State Health Policy, March 2002) News from the Assuring Better Child Health and Development Program: Child development programs at community health centers. Because of their ability to identify at-risk children and to assess their social and primary care needs, health centers are valuable and essential providers of child development services. This brief discusses health promotion program and parent education programs offered by community health centers.

Deborah Curtis. (Portland, ME: National Academy for State Health Policy, February 2002). This report is a summary of early findings from a four-state consortium dedicated to strengthening the early child health and development services offered through Medicaid. It outlines how the Consortium states – North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Washington – worked to expand or develop early child health and development services. It examines the various strategies used in each state, including how each of them sought to improve developmental screening for infants and toddlers.

Vermont ABCD I Project. This form was designed to promote improved care coordination between MCH coordinators, Medicaid providers, and home visiting programs--allowing for a more streamlined approach to improve access to quality services for Medicaid eligible children.

Carrie Fitzgerald and Alfred Healy. (2007). PowerPoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes how Iowa implemented its demonstration sites and provides insight into how demonstration site experience can be used in policy improvement and statewide spread of innovations.