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August 7, 2024

Join Our One Big Doable Thing! Webinar: Register Today!

Join us for a September 10, 2024 Zero to Three Evidence to Impact Center Webinar: One Big Doable Thing! Elevating Comprehensive Developmental Promotion and Preventive Services With the Family-Engaged Well-Visit Planner Approach. This webinar will review the evidence-based Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner (COE/WVP) model and tools, which provide a feasible and efficient pathway for clinicians, family specialists and community-based early childhood professionals to partner and engage families to ensure comprehensive preventive and developmental services while meeting performance goals for developmental screening and well visit rates. Participants will gain practical insights on optimizing time to build relationships with families and promote child flourishing and early relational health and will hear perspectives from family specialist Barbara Leach and Community Health Center leader Dr. Louis Appel.

Empowering Community Health Centers during National Health Center Week!

Community Health Centers play a crucial role in providing accessible, high-quality healthcare to more than 8.8 million children in the United States. Health center staff, including pediatricians, early childhood specialists, community health workers, prenatal care workers, among other team members are essential to promoting the early and lifelong health of children and families. With over 15 health promotion and preventive well-child visits recommended in the first six years of a child's life, health centers are a critical family access point to help set children on a path to thriving long before they enter school.

Building Bridges Between Families, Health Systems, and Communities

The Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner (COE WVP) Approach to Care was created in partnership with families, community leaders, and primary care providers to help implement a strengths-based, comprehensive approach to early childhood preventive services. The Well Visit Planner tool:

Integrates family-reported screening and priority setting
Optimizes time during visits to focus on the family's agenda
Tracks population-level needs, priorities, and quality of care

Studies show that over 92% of clinicians and families would recommend this tool to others. The Well Visit Planner's interoperable family data sharing capacity and local population-based aggregator can foster cross-system partnerships essential to promote child health equity and flourishing at a population level!

Watch the video below for more information on the COE WVP:

Learn more about how the COE WVP is aligned with health system standards and requirements

The Engagement in Action (EnAct!) Framework offers a roadmap for creating an integrated early childhood health system, focusing on:

Promoting child flourishing and school readiness
Fostering positive childhood experiences
Preventing and mitigating the impacts of adverse childhood experiences

Together, we can power our communities through caring connections and ensure that every child has the opportunity to thrive!

Get a summary of the EnAct! Framework

More resources for child health professionals and community leaders:

Have additional questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information on the COE model and tools or send us an email at info@cycleofengagement.org

Cycle of Engagement FAQ's

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The Cycle of Engagement promotes real family engagement in well-child care, while ensuring that Bright Futures Guidelines are met at every well visit! Learn more during #NHCW2024: http://ow.ly/YRU450MC9AI

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More than 8.8 million children in the United States receive primary care from a Community Health Center. The Well Visit Planner is a must-have tool to improve the quality of well-child visits. Share it with your HC: https://shorturl.at/WpHHs #NHCW2024

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The Well Visit Planner is more than just a screening tool; it's a way to promote family resilience and build trust with families. Learn more: http://ow.ly/Ps7G50Om5jr #NHCW2024

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Are you a Health Center? The Promoting Healthy Development Survey (PHDS) is a great tool to engage families in your quality improvement efforts and get their feedback about the quality of your early childhood services. Learn more: www.onlinephds.org/ProviderInfo.aspx #NHCW2024

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In case you missed it

A recent publication co-authored by CAHMI’s Dr. Christina Bethell reinforcing the critical role of primary care to promote relational health, prevent and address ACEs and promote the healthy development of children!

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