Welcome to the Infant-Child Health Committee

(ICHC)

of the NJ Council for Young Children (NJ CYC)

Wednesday, June 20, 20189:00am - 12:30pm

Ericka Dickerson, LSWInfant Child Health Committee ChairECCS Impact/Help Me Grow CoordinatorDept. of Children and Families-Family and Community PartnershipsOffice of Early Childhood Services

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Welcome and Introductions

All Partners

ICHC Agenda:• 9:00 am Networking and Refreshments

• 9:30 am Welcome, Introductions and Overview of the day

• 9:45 am Home Visiting Coalition

• HV Workgroup Restructuring, Roles and Innovation Grant

• 10:15 am ECCS Impact State Overview

• Camden County

• 11:00 am Break/Networking/Review Resource Table and/or Partner Updates

• 11:15 am ICHC Strategic Plan and Reflective Planning Updates

• 12:00 pm ICHC Partner Highlights/Updates

• 12:30 pm Meeting Adjourned 3

ICHC: Purpose and Priorities

4*Please note ICHC Priorities are aligned with the priorities of the Early

Childhood Comprehensive Systems Impact, Help Me Grow NJ& NJ Project LAUNCH grants.

• Infant-Child Health CommitteePurpose: To make recommendations that support the alignment of health and wellness systems for pregnant women, young children and their families.

Priority Areas: • Family/Child Health & Wellness• Infant/Child Mental Health• Children with Special Needs

ICHC Meeting Info:ICHC meeting minutes, handouts, &

partner updates can be found under theNJ Council for Young Children under

sub-committees, go to:http://www.state.nj.us/education/ece/njcyc/

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Home Visiting Coalition

Jessica Lipper –NSOJessica Nugent - PCANJ

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ECCS Impact State Overview:• Overview: ECCS Impact builds upon NJ’s existing progress in the

development of an integrated, comprehensive early childhood system of care for families from pregnancy to age five.

• 5 Placed Based Communities (PBC’s) (Camden, Cumberland, Essex, Middlesex and Passaic counties) along with the State Impact Grantee (NJ DCF) participate in the ECCS Impact Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (CoIIN) – a collective impact approach to enhance NJ’s comprehensive, coordinated preventive health system.

• Primary Aim of ECCS CoIIN:

• Participating communities will show a 25% relative increase in children birth to age 3 that are achieving age appropriate developmental health/skills in all 5 developmental domains within the community

• Strengthen state and local leadership in CQI expertise to inform change ideas to enhance existing EC system building on prior work through NJ-ECCS/Help Me Grow to ensure an integrated system of care to improve infant/ child outcomes, eliminate disparities, support parents and families, and strengthen communities.

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ECCS Impact State Overview:ECCS Impact Strategies to achieve ECCS Aim:

• Universal promotion of child’s developmental heath through use of the CDC’s “Learn The Signs. Act Early.” developmental health materials (milestone moments booklet, brochure, tracker app, etc;)

• Implementation of HMG NJ Child Developmental Passports as a parent education and empowerment tool – so that parents are aware of their child’s developmental health, milestones, immunizations and developmental screenings conducted. Central Intake info. to promote early linkages to services.

• Implementation of Universal Developmental Screening through Brooke’s Publishing Ages and Stages Questionnaire Family Access Portal to expand the reach of access to FREE developmental screening (ASQ-3 and ASQ -SE access to families with children birth -5yrs. (Expands Central Intake’s ability to track a targeted health outcome -developmental health and social emotional health).

• Develop and Implement a Child Profile into Population Based Database (SPECT) – to track presenting (child outcomes) needs of child, referral, and linkage, follow-up and ongoing developmental screening results and follow-up. 8

ECCS Impact Updates:• Continue Ongoing CoIIN activities: Monthly Action Period Calls, National and State

Learning Sessions and TA Calls

• Thematic Webinars:

• February 21st, 2018 concerning strategies to leverage Title V work to support early childhood developmental screening.

• April 19th, 2018 Identify strategies to support the use/acceptance of developmental screening (ASQ-3 and ASQ SE-2) with diverse populations

• NJ Learning Session/Harvest Party - February 28th, 2018 (State Team and Placed Based Community (PBC)) – Meeting, ongoing learning, planning

and support.

• NJ Learning Session: Grow NJ Kids presentation, Family Access Portal Update and CQI Mini Learning Session

• Harvest Party: Reflecting on work thus far and celebrating each states accomplishments in the CoIIN.

• Help Me Grow National Conference: April 4th – 6th

• Learning Session 4 & Annual Impact Grantee Meeting: July 17th-19th

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ECCS Impact Updates:Current Activities/Highlights:

• Linking Protocol Workgroup (ECCS Learning Lab)

• Focus: ASQ Family Access Implementation in all 5 PBC’s

• Enhance Policy and Procedures:

o Implementation

o Training

o Parent follow-up and resources for families

o Outreach strategies and efforts

o Explore collaborating partners for Family Access –

▪ Child Care, Family Success and/or Other Partners for in person screening

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ECCS Impact Updates:

• NJ is Modeling Parent/Family Engagement and Partnership with NJ’s Parent Leaders:• NICHQ Blog – Nicole’s Story - Nicole Hopkins, ECCS Program Assistant/Parent

Professional

• Parent leader Participation at SAMSHA Leadership Summit – click video link. – David Armstrong, Essex ECCS CoIIN and ECCYC parent leader

• State Parent Leader engaged to share about NJ’s use of the LTSAE and Birth To Five Watch Me Thrive Tools - Deepa Srinivasavaradan, ECCS State Parent Leader and LTSAE Ambassador

• Active Engagement and Participation of our PBC and State Parent Leaders in our Linking Protocol WG – Family Access planning/implementation meeting –5/6 participated

• Intentional outreach to All PBC parent Leaders by ECCS State Parent Leader

• 3 ECCS Impact Parent Leaders invited to participate on Family Leader PANEL ECCS LS4 - David Armstrong, Deepa Srinivasavaradan, and Nicole Hopkins

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ECCS Impact Updates:PDSA updates – Recap Focus of PBC by county:

• Cumberland: Developmental Health Promotion and monitoring using the LTSAE resources and child development passport through engagement of Parents in the FQHC with a pediatrician, EI (children who are ineligible for EI) and Library (Toddler Time).

• Essex: Continuing universal developmental screening promotion using the Brookes Publishing Family Access Portal. Reaching out to local health departments to find out the protocol concerning serving children with high lead levels and how the team can collaborate around linking families to screening and other services. Conducted a pilot Books Balls & Blocks events.

• Middlesex: Continuing outreach and developmental health promotion at FQHC. Initiate new protocol for Social Determinants of Health and Family Engagement surveys at FQHC. Update Family Toolkits with universal resources like nutrition and following up with families around feedback of the toolkits.

• Passaic: Collaborated with Family Success Center and Child Care Center to increase awareness of the importance of childhood developmental milestones with parents. Family toolkit for developmental milestones is being distributed to families after a short presentation. Had Books, Balls and Blocks activities on March 24th

• Camden will highlight their work today via presentation to the ICHC.

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Project LAUNCH Family Leadership Summit Video

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Featuring our Parent Leader from Essex County:

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Camden–Place Based Community

Helene Lynch

Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

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Break

NetworkingReview Resource Table

Partner Updates

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ICHC Strategic Plan & Reflective Planning

Updates

Ericka Dickerson

Reflective Planning 2018

1. What are some current barriers and/or challenges families with children (Pregnancy to age 8 years) face in your programs/agencies, in the areas of Child/Family Health and Wellness, Infant Early Childhood Mental Health, Infant and Children with Special Needs?

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Reflective Planning 2018

1a. What are some strategies used to currentlyaddresses the issue (eg. initiatives, workgroups, special projects, etc;) and/or what are some of your suggested solutions - that would be helpful?

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Reflective Planning 2018 cont…2. What are some strategies in which Developmental

Health Promotion/Referral and Follow-up are being conducted within your agency/program? If not currently, how might developmental health promotion/referral and linkage be incorporated within your current work within your agency/program? Please identify the program/agency then strategy.

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Reflective Planning 2018 cont…3. What are some additional presentation topics that

would be beneficial to you as a member of ICHC, in the areas of Family Child Health & Wellness, IECMH and Children with Special Needs): (Orange –indicates

presentation conducted previously)

• Grow NJ Kids

• Early Intervention

• Preschool Expulsion, Suspension and Exclusion

• Social/Emotional Development

• Additional presentation topics:

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Reflective Planning 2018 cont…

4. In 2018, what special contribution would you like to make/or to be considered for sharing with the ICHC and/or other partners?

(Identify Agency – Program and contribution)

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Reflective Planning 2018 cont…

5. What else would you like to see happen at the ICHC in 2018?

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ICHC Partner Highlights & Updates

Thank you for participating!!!Next Meeting of the

Infant-Child Health Committee (ICHC)

Wednesday, September 19, 20189:00am-12:30pm

New Location:Department of Human Services

6 Quakerbridge PlazaConference Room 200 A, B, C

Mercerville, NJ 0861924

New Meeting Location for ICHC

on September 19th

We Are Moving....

Department of Human Services6 Quakerbridge Plaza

Conference Room 200 A, B, C Mercerville, NJ 08619

If you have any questions, please contact :Nicole Hopkins at nicole.hopkins@dcf.state.nj.us or Ericka Dickerson at ericka.dickerson@dcf.state.nj.us

All Visitors must obtain a visitor’s pass from the security officer in Building 6 before proceeding to Building 7, 2nd floor, Conference rooms 200 A, B, C.