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• Access to Follow Up Services: Iowa’s Healthy Mental Development Initiative
  M. Jane Borst. (2007). Powerpoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes Iowa's model for improving provider access to follow-up care to families: creating designated state-funded staff called EPSDT coordinators.
  10b-Borst ABCDII-_Access_to_Services-jb.ppt

• Access to Follow-up Services: Bringing Community and Health Care Providers Together
  Julie Olson. (2007). Powerpoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes Utah's model for improving provider access to follow-up care to families: fostering referral pathway development.
  10c-Olson access to follow up services upiqslidesfinaldraft.ppt

• Beyond Referral: Pediatric Care Linkages to Improve Developmental Health
  Amy Fine and Rochelle Mayer. (New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund, December 2006). This report provides a first step in reviewing the current state of pediatric primary care linkage to developmental services. First steps include: identifying key strategies, developing a linkage typology, and providing recommendations to improve linkage for developmental care. (From web overview)
  http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=430649

• Enhancing Developmental Outcomes for Children: Help Me Grow Connecticut
  Joanna Bogin. (2007). Powerpoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes Connecticut's model of telephone-based care coordination to improve provider access to follow-up care to families.
  10d-Bogin ABCDPresentation.ppt

• How to Develop a Statewide System to Link Families with Community Resources: A Manual based on Help Me Grow
  Paul Dworkin, Joanna Bogin, Marijane Carey, et al. (New York, NY: The Connecticut Children's Trust and the Commonwealth Fund, 2006). The material in this manual is based on Connecticut's Help Me Grow Initiative, a program of Connecticut's Children's Health Fund. This online tool offers guidance for exploring, creating, and/or enhancing a single-point-of-access system to connect children at risk for developmental or behavioral problems with community resources. (From Table of Contents)
  http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=462069

• Linking Children to Developmental Services and Supports: An Overview
  Amy Fine. (2007). Powerpoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation focuses on models to improve provider access to follow-up care for families.
  10a-Fine ABCD.Handout.v7.Jul.07.clean.ppt