Assuring Better Child Health and Development Resource Center
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   -----------------------------------An initiative of the National Academy for State Health Policy
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 An Initiative of:
 
 National Academy for State Health Policy

The Commonwealth Fund

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New Jersey Resources

The New Jersey ABCD Screening Academy project developed and built on public and private partnerships to promote screening through the medical home model, selected a screening tool and trained providers, and educated providers about existing referral resources and developmental screening.

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

  • Improving state policy to better support developmental screening by negotiating a contract between New Jersey Health and Senior Services and the Pediatric Council on Research and Education (PCORE) for a $125,000 grant to expand and strengthen medical homes in New Jersey.
  • Improving provider practice around the use of standardized developmental screening tools by providing Ages and Stages (ASQ) tools, staff time, resources and technical assistance to the practices, and providing ASQ training statewide, and by bringing the pilot and Early Intervention (EI) staff together to overcome pilot reluctance to refer patients to early intervention because of perceived barriers. In addition, New Jersey Medicaid provided a financial incentive for participation by the pilot practices.
  • Sustaining and spreading the use of standardized screening tools as part of well child care by developing several grant applications, one to replicate ABCD efforts with other primary care providers to routinely use standardized developmental screening and surveillance techniques as part of routine well health supervision within the context of a medical home, and another for the early identification and referral of young children with autism including a 2 year subcontract for $91,000 to PCORE.. New Jersey’s ABCD team also built upon partnerships with the Medicaid Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) who have included the topic of developmental screening in their EPSDT workgroup.

  • Making the case
    Engaging leaders
    Improving quality
    Identifying children and familes at risk
    Identifying and addressing needs
    Improving policy
    Gauging success
    Paying for improvements
    Testing models
    Spreading results


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Overviews of 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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