Assuring Better Child Health and Development - Minnesota Resources: Making the Case

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Minnesota Resources: Making the Case

Research demonstrates that children’s healthy development is essential to school readiness, academic success, and overall well-being. Services that support young children’s healthy development can reduce the prevalence of developmental and behavioral disorders that have high costs and long-term consequences for health, education, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems.1

This section contains resources for "Making the Case" developed by Minnesota.

Sources include:
Institute of Medicine, Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for preventive intervention research (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1994); Carnegie Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children. Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of our Youngest Children” (New York, NY: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1994).

ABCD II Great Start Minnesota Project
Glenace Edwall, Antonia Wilcoxon, Susan Castellano. (Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2006). This presentation provides background information on the Minnesota ABCD II Project.
http://ssw.che.umn.edu/img/assets/4467/WilcoxonEsthersForum.pdf
Minnesota Department of Human Services Managed Care Contract
This resource outlines policy improvements made during the ABCD project to Managed Care Contracts. Sections 7.10.6. of the contract sets down financial incentives for implementation of standardized developmental and mental health screening with use of appropriate CPT code by participating MCO providers.
Minnesota contract for MA GA and MinnesotaCare services.pdf

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State-Specific Activities:

>>Making the Case

>>Engaging Leaders

>>Improving Quality in Office Practice

>>Identifying Children and Families at Risk

>>Identifying and Addressing Needs

>>Improving Policy

>>Gauging Success

>>Paying for Improvements

>>Testing Models

>>Spreading Results

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