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Help Me Grow: An Innovative Approach to Funding Care Coordination

Carlota Schechter

Consultant, Help Me Grow National Center Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Hartford, Connecticut

New England Alliance for Children’s Health

November 9, 2015

Goal: The promotion of children’s

• ptimal healthy development

Broadens the Stakeholders: Health Care Mental Health Early Intervention Early care & Education Child Protection Services Child Advocacy Early Intervention Special Education

Reframing the Goal

Help Me Grow is a system that ….identifies at-risk children and ….connects them to the services they need. A centralized information and referral center provides care coordination to families and others who may be concerned about a young child.

Help Me Grow

• Early Detection and
• Linking children to supports

The Problem

• Children with developmental or behavioral problems

are eluding early detection

• And even when identified, at-risk children are not

getting the services they need.

HOWEVER… Experts agree on the importance of…

Imagine a care coordination system where …

coordinators are available are 24 hours a day, every day to…

1) Answer parent or other caregivers questions

about their children’s development,

and 2) Connect families to the necessary

resources in their communities.

Help Me Grow Vision

Help Me Grow Vision

All states have a Help Me Grow systems so that…

Families have

Knowledge of and access to services Support in learning about child development Support in making connections

Child Health Care, Early Care & Education, Human Service Providers can

Identify at-risk children Partner with families to promote healthy development

Public officials, advocates and

• ther key stakeholders

Understand gaps in services Know how to ensure system capacity to meet needs

Help Me Grow Care Coordination

4

Provider or family contact Help Me Grow

6

Family connected to resources

7

Information loops back to provider from HMG

2

Provider solicits family concerns Identify behavioral and/or developmental concern

3

HMG Care Coordinator provides resources

5 1

Well-child visits (Surveillance & Screening)

The Help Me Grow System

Child health care provider

• utreach

to support early detection and intervention

2 1

Centralized telephone access point for connecting children and their families to services and care coordination Community

• utreach

to promote use of HMG and facilitate networking for families and service providers

3

Data collection to understand all aspects of the HMG system, including gaps in and barriers to services

4

Core Components

Guam: The Help Me Grow System

Help Me Grow History: Building on Success

2005

First Help Me Grow Replication Site in Orange County, CA

2010–2013

WK Kellogg Grant Replication in 10 Additional States

2008–2010

Commonwealth Grant Replication in 5 States

2014+

National Reach and Impact 23+ Affiliates

1998–2004

HMG Pilot Program and Early Growth in Connecticut

The Help Me Grow National Network 23 States and Growing!

Alabama California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Iowa Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New York Oregon Puerto Rico South Carolina Utah Vermont Washington West Virginia Wyoming District of Columbia

Connecticut: Implementing HMG for 13 years Vermont: Started implementation Fall 2015 Maine: Started the planning Spring 2015

HMG in New England States

Braiding Funding

Connecticut’s Braided Funding for Help Me Grow

• Early Intervention (Part C)
• Early Childhood Special Education

(Part B)

• Children and Youth with Special

Health Care Needs

• Home Visiting (MIECHV)

• Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
• Early Head Start
• Learn the Signs. Act Early
• Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting

(MIECHV)

• Project LAUNCH
• Race to the Top
• Reach Out & Read
• Strengthening Families
• IDEA Part C Early Intervention
• IDEA Part B Special Education

Help Me Grow Partners

Example: Washington

We make the connections Washington families need to be healthy. Help Me Grow Washington is a free program that connects families to the resources needed to give ALL kids the best start and to make sure they are growing and developing on track.

Help Me Grow Data

• 31,022 children

Number of Children

• Caregivers: Mothers
• Providers:
• Healthcare
• Mental Health care
• Early Intervention

Who contacted HMG?

From 12 States

Top 5 Presenting Issues/Concerns

Top 5 in order:

• 1. Communication Issues
• 2. Behavioral Issues
• 3. Developmental Concerns
• 4. Developmental

Information & Resources

• 5. Educational Needs &

Resources

Outcomes, Impact & Effectiveness

Cost Benefits of “De-medicalizing” Childhood Developmental and Behavioral Concerns

Policy briefs available at www.HelpMeGrowNational.org

www.HelpMeGrowNational.org

Key Strategies

 Leverage existing community resources  Maintain low cost by linking to existing programs and services  Facilitate cross-sector collaboration Child health, early care & education, family support, basic needs support  Serve all children including vulnerable populations

To promote children’s optimal healthy development….

Thank you

Carlota Schechter

www.helpmegrownational.org