Colorado participated in the ABCD Screening Academy as a “Setting the Stage for Success” grantee, a project designed to learn from and replicate the North Carolina ABCD Project model for integrating standardized developmental screening into well-child care visits.

Specifically, the ABCD Screening Academy project in Colorado improved developmental screening by:

• Improving state policy to better support developmental screening by incorporating screening requirements into Colorado's Medical Home initiative, and by targeting "Improving State Policy" as a critical area of attention in the 2009 ABCD team work plan.
• Improving provider practice around the use of standardized developmental screening tools by completing multiple ABCD community trainings in all eight pilot communities, increasing the use of a standardized developmental screening tool at well child visits, and partnering with Kaiser Permanente and Denver Health so that all of their sites implemented the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) with all pediatricians and family practitioners participating.
• Sustaining and spreading the use of standardized screening tools as part of well child by developing an ABCD State vision and applying for funding to gather a group of physicians for a session on the importance of health care screening, including the integration of the use of a standardized developmental screening tool at well child visit.