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• A Practical Guide for Healthy Development
  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 is a set of materials and tools designed and tested in the Healthy Development Learning Collaborative, a 12-month quality improvement initiative. The initiative was designed to help primary care practices in Vermont and North Carolina engage families in a partnership to promote positive developmental outcomes for the families' children through the development of improved office systems. (From web overview)
  http://www.cmwf.org/General/General_show.htm?doc_id=335599

• A Practical Guide for Improving Child Developmental Services
  The Commonwealth Fund. (May 8, 2006). This guide helps pediatric practices redesign their office systems to improve the quality of preventive and developmental services. The resources (checklists, surveys, bibliographies, and more) were developed and tested in a year-long quality improvement initiative in which primary care practices in Vermont and North Carolina used improved office systems to engage families in efforts to promote positive developmental outcomes.
  http://www.commonwealthfund.org/innovations/innovations_show.htm?doc_id=372065

• Building State Medicaid Capacity to Provide Child Development Services: Early Findings from the ABCD Consortium
  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 – have worked to expand or develop early child health and development services. It examines the various strategies of each state, including how each of them has sought to improve developmental screening for infants and toddlers. And it explores how the four states have begun to address such common issues as services and supports for uninsured parents and the financing mechanisms necessary to support their programs.
  http://www.nashp.org/Files/early_findings.pdf

• How States are Working with Physicians to Improve the Quality of Children’s Health Care
  Helen Pelletier. (Portland, ME: National Academy for State Health Policy, April 2006). This report examines how state agencies and medical providers are working together to improve the quality of health care for children, particularly for those who are underserved and members of at-risk populations. The paper discusses the roles that states can play in supporting provider efforts to improve the quality of children’s health care, and it offers detailed profiles of five different models, among them learning collaboratives and practice-based seminars. It concludes by summarizing the lessons that states—and their partners—have learned from these efforts.
  http://www.nashp.org/Files/CW13_final_website.pdf

• Parental Depression Screening for Pediatric Clinicians: An Implementation Manual
  Ardis Olson, M.D. and Cecelia Gaffney, M.Ed. (The Commonwealth Fund, April 18, 2007). This manual guides health providers in conducting routine screening for parental depression and referring parents to counseling services. The manual is based on the findings of the Dartmouth Parental Well-Being Project, which tested practical approaches over a six-month period with more than 9,000 parents.
  http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=461988

• Utah Pediatric Partnership toImprove Healthcare Quality
  Chuck Norlin. (2007). Powerpoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation examines how Utah utilized learning collaboratives to help physician practices incorporate standardized screening into well child care.
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