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Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Program evaluation Quality Improvement Strategic Planning
Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Program evaluation Quality Improvement Strategic Planning
This webinar will provide an overview of an intake, screening, assessment, and referral process known as centralized, or central, intake. Centralized Intake is typically used in communities that have multiple programs offered within the same service area, serving similar focus populations. Three Healthy Start programs will share how they are using and/or developing centralized intake systems to help identify, screen, and assess families in an effort to enroll them in the program that is best suited for their specific situation and needs. Grantees representing various phases of development and implementation will share their role within the centralized intake system, as well as successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
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In an effort to support the Healthy Start Community to achieve the Healthy Start benchmark to establish a quality improvement and performance monitoring process, the EPIC Center will be launching 6-7 peer learning networks (PLNs) each targeting a Healthy Start benchmark. The PLNs will be co-facilitated by members from the Healthy Start Grantee Community and the EPIC Center. Participating Healthy Start programs will identify a Healthy Start benchmark to target for improved performance, form a quality improvement (QI) team at their service site, engage agency administrators in their efforts, develop and implement a QI project plan, and identify and collect performance measures for monitoring impact. QIPLNs will meet on a monthly basis for nine months (February – October). Participating Healthy Start programs will identify two QI Leads to attend monthly QIPLN calls from February to October and to facilitate a QI team to design and implement a QI project at their agency. QIPLN meetings will afford participants the opportunity to collaborate and share their experiences, the strategies they are testing, their QI goals and objectives, and their progress with peers.
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Recognizing the importance of articulating a conceptual framework and science base for the long-term sustainability of the Healthy Start program, HS CoIIN members expressed a majority interest in focusing HS CoIIN efforts on identifying opportunities for standardizing elements of the program.
Screening has always been a fundamental component of Healthy Start services, and provides an important starting point for Healthy Start’s case management approach. A common, standardized screening approach will help to ensure comprehensive and consistent assessment of participants’ needs across all Healthy Start programs.
For the past nine months, the Healthy Start CoIIN composed of 20 HS grantees from all corners of the country, has been hard at work developing a standardized risk screening approach to be used by all HS programs with all HS participants.
Feedback from the entire Healthy Start community is ESSENTIAL and NECESSARY to make these screening tools the best they can be so they can fully represent the core strengths of the Healthy Start program. Don’t miss the opportunity to review these tools from your perspective serving HS participants.
Have your Say! Screening Tools Comment Period Jan. 12-29, 2016
Process for Submission of Feedback:
Please review the draft screening tools with all staff involved in screening participants. After reviewing the tools, work as a team to summarize and submit your organization’s feedback. We will accept one feedback form per Healthy Start program.
Each screening tool has a separate comment form. If you need to return to a previous page that you have already completed, please use the “Prev” button at the bottom of each page (rather than the internet back arrow at the top of the screen). This will avoid any internet-based hiccups. The format of each comment form is the same and includes evaluation criteria along with an invitation to participate as a pilot testing site. The pilot testing is scheduled for March for CoIIN and April for non-CoIIN members.
Thank you for reviewing and participating in the comment period for the screening tools. Your feedback is an important part of ensuring the quality and utility of the tools. The comment period will be open from January 12 through midnight January 29, 2016.
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The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program through the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is designed to:
This webinar will introduce Healthy Start grantees to the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program and relevant resources available through the program.
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Father/Partner Involvement Program evaluation Shared Measurement
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Breastfeeding Case Management/Care Coordination Program evaluation Quality Improvement Social Determinants of Health
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Father/Partner Involvement Participant Recruitment and Retention Quality Improvement
The purpose of this to provide an overview of the Healthy Start program to front line staff members, to review program expectations, and to have an open forum for questions to assess how we work together to build the Healthy Start community.
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