During the ABCD II project, California examined the delivery of appropriate mental health and developmental screening and treatment in primary care from both the state and local perspective. The project identified barriers to screening and treatment and developed strategies to overcome these challenges and improve the delivery of child development services. 

During the ABCD Screening Academy California continued to build on these initial steps, by:

• Improving state policy to better support developmental screening by providing final recommendations to the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program (CHDP) as they develop new Health Assessment Guidelines (HAG), and by passing four Senate bills creating several pilot programs to improve autism screening, diagnosis, referral, and treatment options.
• Improving provider practice around the use of standardized developmental screening tools by developing an ASQ Calculator that allows a provider to figure out which tool to use based on the age of the child: the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®(ASQ) or : Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social Emotional (ASQ:SE).
• Sustaining and spreading the use of standardized screening tools as part of well child care from a ‘best practice’ to a ‘standard of practice’ through the creation of a California-specific screening website and for a web-based community communication toolkit. This web resource provides referral tools, encourages communication and information-sharing between primary care providers and community resources, and helps state and county government and providers understand the "how, where and why" of developmental, socio-emotional & mental health screening for young children.