Delaware’s ABCD Screening Academy Project built on Delaware's Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) plan to promote positive child physical and mental health and established a statewide stakeholder’s group, selected and piloted a screening tool, and promoted screening by managed care partners.

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

• Improving state policy to better support developmental screening by promoting a heightened awareness of the importance of developmental screening among managed care companies which serve the Medicaid population.
• Improving provider practice around the use of standardized developmental screening tools by developing a commitment from all ten pediatric pilot satellite offices to implement the PEDS (Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status) as a developmental screening tool.
• Sustaining and spreading the use of standardized screening tools as part of well child care from a ‘best practice’ to a ‘standard of practice’ by hosting a successful ABCD Stakeholder's Forum about the benefit of developmental screening using a validated tool. Delaware’s ABCD team is sustaining these activities through funding requests for a project based on the ABCD Screening Academy initiative and a second grant proposal for Project LAUNCH, which will use a statewide Public Health approach and promote universal screening by physicians.

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Making the case

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Engaging leaders

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Improving quality

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Identifying children and familes at risk

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Identifying and addressing needs

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Improving policy

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Gauging success

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Paying for improvements

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Testing models

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Spreading results

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