CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT INC

Programs: Mental health care - chdi's work in pediatric primary care has focused on increasing the role of child health providers in ensuring children's healthy development. We reach two thirds of the state's child heath sites with training on managing behavioral health issues, oral health services, home and car safety, developmental screening and promoting socio-emotional health in young children. As a result of our work, the numbers of disadvantaged children who receive developmental and mental health screening as part of their health services has increased fifteen fold, and the number children younger than three who receive fluoride varnish from their child health provider has also increased dramatically. We bring child health providers up to date information on the services available for their patients in their communities. We also provide opportunities for child health sites to improve the care they provide by using data driven, quality improvement methodologies. We prepare them to participate in the new health care environment, which emphasizes quality and coordinated care. To address coordination of patient services, chdi's work focusses on connecting child health sites to the other sectors of care that contribute to children's development. These include childcare programs, preschools and schools. Our goal is to ensure that children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn and that childcare and school settings have the information they need from health providers to ensure that children's health needs are met. We also represent child health issues in the state's larger reform efforts. Our goal is to ensure that child health services benefit from health care reforms and state initiatives.

pediatric primary care - chdi's work in pediatric primary care has focused on increasing the role of child health providers in ensuring children's healthy development. We reach two thirds of the state's child heath sites with training on managing behavioral health issues, oral health services, home and car safety, developmental screening and promoting socio-emotional health in young children. As a result of our work, the numbers of disadvantaged children who receive developmental and mental health screening as part of their health services has increased fifteen fold, and the number children younger than three who receive fluoride varnish from their child health provider has also increased dramatically. We bring child health providers up to date information on the services available for their patients in their communities. We also provide opportunities for child health sites to improve the care they provide by using data driven, quality improvement methodologies. We prepare them to participate in the new health care environment, which emphasizes quality and coordinated care. To address coordination of patient services, chdi's work focusses on connecting child health sites to the other sectors of care that contribute to children's development. These include childcare programs, preschools and schools. Our goal is to ensure that children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn and that childcare and school settings have the information they need from health providers to ensure that children's health needs are met. We also represent child health issues in the state's larger reform efforts. Our goal is to ensure that child health services benefit from health care reforms and state initiatives.

early childhood - chdi continued its 6-year partnership with the william caspar graustein memorial fund and the state of ct to support 33 communities to develop early childhood systems, inclusive of health, that ensure early learning success for children birth to eight. We worked with a subset of these communities (6) to advance the use of the early childhood health assessment records that are required for enrollment in licensed day care, as a source of data for planning at the community and state levels. We worked with the ct association of infant mental health to develop and deliver training for child health and child care providers on infant mental health and maternal depression. We developed and delivered two new epic modules on these topics and published an impact on maternal depression. We began work in the area of childhood obesity, producing and publishing an impact on preventing obesity in young children. We supported the completion of the ct medication administration training in early education and child care settings (2014) curriculum with audio narration in english and spanish with 100 child health providers subsequently trained to teach medication administration in early education and child care programs.

identify and develop innovations in child health service delivery to inform policy, systems and practice in connecticut. Coordinate strategic objectives between chdi's existing partners and chdi.