Leveraging Partnerships to Build Better Systems

of Care for Early Childhood

Development

NHSA’s 45th Annual National Head Start Conference and Expo | Anaheim, CAApril 25, 2018 2:30-3:30PM PST | Room: 204C

PresentersPaige Bussanich, M.S. pbussanich@amchp.org

Senior Program ManagerChildren and Youth with

Special Health Care Needs

Anna Corona, MPH, CPHacorona@amchp.org

Program AnalystChild and Adolescent Health

Over the next hour…

• Who is AMCHP? What is Title V?

….and why you should care

• How AMCHP supports developmental screening efforts

• Q & A

• Seek and find activity

• What’s next?

• Session evaluations

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify opportunities for cross-system collaboration between Title V & Head Start to support access to comprehensive early childhood services.

2. Introduce and apply tools and resources to align early childhood program activities and action plans.

3. Understand the role of developmental screening within a comprehensive system of services necessary for optimal early childhood development outcomes.

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify opportunities for cross-system collaboration between Title V & Head Start to support access to comprehensive early childhood services.

2. Introduce and apply tools and resources to align early childhood program activities and action plans.

3. Understand the role of developmental screening within a comprehensive system of services necessary for optimal early childhood development outcomes.

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify opportunities for cross-system collaboration between Title V & Head Start to support access to comprehensive early childhood services.

2. Introduce and apply tools and resources to align early childhood program activities and action plans.

3. Understand the role of developmental screening within a comprehensive system of services necessary for optimal early childhood development outcomes.

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Who is AMCHP?

• Vision: A nation that values and invests in the health and wellbeing of all women, children, families, and communities.

• Mission: Protect and promote the optimal health of women, children, and families.

• Members: Leaders/staff from state/territory health agencies and their partners who implement programs to improve the health of women, children, and families.

• Context: Title V MCH Services Block Grant (and beyond…)

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What is Title V?

The nation’s longest standing public health legislation focused solely on improving the health of all mothers and children, including children with

special health care needs (CSHCN)

Appropriates funds to states to:

• Ensure access to quality health services

• Promote the health of children by providing preventive and primary care services

• Provide and promote family-centered, community-based, coordinated care for children with special health care needs

Title V MCH Services Block Grants

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Every 5 years, states conduct a needs assessment

to prioritize MCH needs

Each year, states submit a block grant application outlining their strategic priorities for the year

With each block grant application, states select 5

National Performance Measures (out of 15), 3-5

state priority measures, and one or more state outcome

measures

National Performance Measure 6

Percent of children, ages 10 through 71 months, receiving a developmental screening using a

parent-completed screening tool

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So, why does this matter to Head Start?

Head Start Program Performance Standards

§1302.33: Child Screenings and Assessments

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“… a program must complete or obtain a current developmental screening to identify concerns regarding a child’s developmental, behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, and emotional skills within 45 calendar days of when the child first attends the program…”

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Title V MCH Programs

How does AMCHP provide support to states in addressing NPM 6?

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1. Training

Training

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Resources

eLearning

Publications

AMCHP’s eLearning Module

• Identify the purpose of developmental screening

• Understand the impact screening has on families and children

• Recognize the roadblocks and challenges of the screening process

• Ascertain the role of Title V in developmental screening and communicate its value

• Identify additional resources to assist in communicating value

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http://bit.ly/2tgAz3A

How does AMCHP provide support to states in addressing NPM 6?

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1. Training

2. Systems Coordination

Systems Coordination

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HRSA State Planning and Implementation Grants for Improving Services for Children

and Youth with ASD/DD

Learn the Signs. Act Early.

Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems

Collaborative Improvement &

Innovation Network

National Standards for Systems of Care for Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs

How does AMCHP provide support to states in addressing NPM 6?

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1. Training

2. Systems Coordination

3. Data Integration

Data Integration

• Tip sheets

• Use cases– Autism

– Community-based services

– Developmental Screening

• State examples– Kentucky

– North Carolina

– Rhode Island

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What questions, insights, or comments do you have?

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Let’s play…seek and find!

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A Final Parting Note

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Early Childhood Comprehensive System

Developmental Screening

What’s Next?

Advance your great work by connecting with your colleagues in other states and jurisdictions to learn from each other!

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Thank you!Please take a moment to fill out the session evaluation. We take your input seriously!

Paige Bussanich, M.S.pbussanich@amchp.org

Anna Corona, MPH, CPHacorona@amchp.org

NHSA’s 45th Annual National Head Start Conference and Expo | Anaheim, CAApril 25, 2018 2:30-3:30PM PST | Room: 204C