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Early Childhood Systems Initiatives: Help Me Grow Indiana

Cynthia Smith, DCS & Shannon Garrity, ISDH

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

HELP ME GROW

• http://www.helpmegrownational.org

It is the Co-operation of the core components that defines the system.

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

• The Help Me Grow (HMG) system is designed

to help states and communities leverage existing resources to ensure that communities identify vulnerable children early, link families to community based services, and empower families to support their children’s healthy development through the implementation of four Core Components:

• Child Health Care Provider Outreach,
• Family and Community Outreach,
• Centralized Call Center, and
• Data Collection.

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

Example of family’s call to MOMS Helpline

• A grandmother calls the helpline with concerns

about her two year old grandson stating that he is not speaking well and his behavior is getting worse.

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

Why does Indiana need Help Me Grow?

As a state the average age of diagnosed developmental disability in children is older than 3 years old. We make referrals to services, but do not know if the referred services are effective for the child and family. We must do better!

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

• The vision of the Indiana

Help Me Grow system

1)Assists families, primary care providers, and other community-based providers including home visiting services in screening for developmental or behavioral concerns in children using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ), 2)Statewide resource directory with a feedback loop to identify gaps in services or a wait list for those services, 3)MOMS Helpline is the centralized call center to connect families with specialized programs and services focused on their needs using Help Me Grow care coordinators.

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

Indiana vision to use existing resources

• Due to the ELAC early support, they will add HMG to

their existing work groups.

• The ELAC Child Development and Well Being work

group is the HMG Leadership Committee.

• The ELAC Data Coordination and Systems Integration

work group is the HMG Data Collection work group.

• Both Project LAUNCH State team and local ECCS

team are the Family and Community Outreach work group.

Help Me Grow Indiana Organizational Chart

Implementing entity – Final implementation authorization, funding direction, federal reporting, presentation approval, and data approval decisions are made by this team. IN HMG Program Manager oversees Leadership Team and communicates to IN HMG Organizing Entity activities and recommendations. IN HMG Workgroups implemented within existing early childhood system entities where possible. These workgroups serve as special project workgroups and subject matter advisory entities. IN HMG Leadership Team reviews activities and recommendations from Core Component committees and provides report and recommendation to Organizing Entity via IN HMG Program Manager. IN HMG Leadership Team is a function within larger existing entity of [to be confirmed] workgroup

ORGANIZING ENTITY

Guides vision and strategy at the state and local levels Supports alignment of activities across local systems Facilitates shared measurement practices Increases and leverages political will Advances policy through identification of gaps and barriers Mobilizes funding

SPREAD AND SCALE

Deliberate efforts to increase impact of successfully-tested HMG efforts Systems are unique, but aligned and coordinated Leverages lessons learned through previous implementation efforts Enhances collective power and momentum Ensures all families with young children have access to HMG

CONTINUOUS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT

Emphasizes incremental improvements over time that continue to produce the best outcomes for children and families, maximize efficiency, and yield best practices that can be applied across the state

HELP ME GROW SYSTEM MODEL STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

What will HMG implementation look like?

• Piloting in the nine MIECHV counties and ECCS

community.

• Marion County including the ECCS Near East side.
• Delaware, Elkhart, Grant, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, St.

Joseph, Scott Counties

• September 2018 first call to the MOMS Helpline

using the HMG model.

Pilot Sites

Help Me Grow Indiana will be a single centralized phone system embedded in MOMS Helpline. Resources, referrals and follow-up / feedback loop will be targeted and developed in Pilot sites.

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

How can you help in the implementation of HMG Indiana?

• Utilize experts in a

variety of fields to collaborate in guiding the Help Me Grow implementation.

• Empower families and

communities.

• Child Health Care

Outreach

• Centralized Call Center
• Family/Community

Outreach

• Data collection

Children thrive in safe, caring, supportive families and communities

Questions?

• Cynthia Smith, Department of Child Services,

Cynthia.smith@dcs.in.gov

• Shannon Garrity, IN State Department of

Health, SGarrity@isdh.in.gov

• ISDH ECCS Web site,

https://www.in.gov/isdh/27274.htm