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Addresses important questions on developing awareness and moving to action around comprehensive screenings, follow-up, and early intervention.

Presents research-based screening tools for children under age 5. Practitioners in early care and education, primary health care, child welfare, and mental health can use this reference to learn the cost, administration time, quality level, training required, and age range covered for each screening tool.

Aims to promote a more coordinated approach to meeting children’s developmental needs by proposing the adoption of the SERIES paradigm of developmental screening in which each step—Screening, Early Identification, Referral, Intake, Evaluation, and  Services—is seen not as an isolated activity, but rather an integral component of a single process.  SERIES challenges all systems serving young children to broaden their focus to include practices that promote shared responsibility for ensuring that each child successfully completes the entire pathway from screening to services.

Describes how partnerships between health care providers and community organizations could have a significant impact on health and developmental outcomes by assisting with early identification, supporting parents, and coordinating needed services in a timely manner.

Examines the effectiveness of developmental screening on the identification of developmental delays, early intervention (EI) referrals, and EI eligibility. Children who participated in a developmental screening program were more likely to be identified with developmental delays, referred to EI, and eligible for EI services in a timelier fashion than children who received surveillance alone. These results support policies endorsing developmental screening. 

Houses a collection of materials created for the health care professional working with military families with very young children who may be experiencing significant deployment related challenges. These challenges can affect the health and wellbeing of the children in the health professional’s care. These resources help health care professionals to determine what a family’s needs are, and resources to provide to families coping with deployment, reunification, injury, or the loss of a parent. 

Captures the substantive content that evolved from the two Research and Resilience workgroup meetings, including discussion points, identified research tools and measures, funding considerations, ethical considerations in conducting research, and exploration of appropriate research methodologies. This document serves not only as a resource of current research and practice but also as a call to action among researchers to address gaps and promote research that addresses the identified key issues.

Provides an introduction to and list of resources intended to enhance the ability of health care professionals to care for military families, as well as to share additional resources in a manner that hopefully will be easily integrated into their daily practice.

Covers topics such as initiating consultation; getting to know the program; adult relationships; beginning case consultation; gathering information and creating a picture of the child; interpreting behavior and developing hypotheses; and translating hypotheses into responsive action within the child-care setting. Includes case examples of effective programmatic functioning, interstaff and parent-staff relationships, and/or direct child interventions.

Explores the essential components of effective mental health consultation programs, the skills, competencies, and credentials of effective consultants, the training and supervision needs of consultants, the intervention intensity needs to produce good outcomes, and more.