All ABCD states established demonstration sites—primary care practices willing to serve as laboratories for improvement and a nucleus from which to spread successful improvements. These sites committed to various activities, including implementing developmental screening as part of designated well-child care visits; promoting linkages between primary care providers and other child and family service providers; receiving and helping to refine training; contributing to evaluative activities; sharing their experience with the stakeholder group; and serving as ‘champions’ in statewide spread plans. In return, these practices helped to shape state policy—and knew their work could not only improve the delivery of care to their patients but lead to improvements across their state and beyond. While individual states’ approaches to support these demonstrations varied, ABCD experience confirms that collaborative strategies between primary care providers delivering preventive services and state agencies has great potential to transform the health care system for this population.
This section will include resources that summarize successful pilot site selection, support strategies and testing models for promoting healthy development.
ABCD Activities
| Title | Description |
Date published |
Resource | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setting the stage for Success... Screening & Surveillance in Primary Care: Working with Demonstration Sites | Chris Collins and Marian Earls. (2007). PowerPoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes how North Carolina implemented its demonstration sites and provides insight into how demonstration site experience can be used in policy improvement and statewide spread of innovations. | July 2007 | NASHP-Commonwealth | |
| Working with demonstration sites: Consultation with Iowa's ABCD II project staff | Carrie Fitzgerald and Alfred Healy. (2007). Accompanying handout for Fitzgerald/Healy ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session presentation, July 2007. This handout includes key details about working with demonstration sites, based on the Iowa experience. | July 2007 | NASHP-Commonwealth | |
| Working with demonstration sites | Scott G. Allen and Deborah Saunders. (2007). PowerPoint presentation for ABCD Screening Academy Learning Session, July 2007. This presentation describes how Illinois implemented its demonstration sites and provides insight into how demonstration site experience can be used in policy improvement and statewide spread of innovations. | July 2007 | NASHP-Commonwealth | |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Evaluation: Lessons Learned - Providers | Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings (2006) This resource is a list of interview questions for pilot site providers and office staff - part of an overall evaluation to learn more about their experience with the ABCD project. The questions focus on successes and challenges in the implementation of social-emotional and maternal depression screening. | December 2006 | State-specific | Illinois |
| Key Informant Interview Template for Children's Hospital | Minnesota ABCD project. (2006). This resource is a script/template for conducting informative interviews with critical stakeholders at the Children's Hospital pilot site with a particular focus on assessing mental health screening activities in primary care settings. | December 2006 | State-specific | Minnesota |
| Quarterly Screening Form | Foundations for Success. (Minnesota ABCD Project, 2006). This form was used by pilot sites to track and report screening rates and outcomes. | December 2006 | State-specific | Minnesota |
| Setting the Stage for Success: Implementation of Developmental and Behavioral Screening and Surveillance in Primary Care Practice | Marian F. Earls and Sherry Shackelford Hay. Pediatrics Vol. 118 No. 1 July 2006, pp. e183-e188. This report examines how early identification of children with developmental and behavioral delays is important in primary care practice, and how well-child visits provide an ideal opportunity to engage parents and perform periodic screening. Integration of this activity into office process and flow is necessary for making screening a routine and consistent part of primary care practice. (From Abstract) | July 2006 | Peer-reviewed | |
| Memorandum of Understanding Between Dubuque Medical Associates and The Iowa ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Initiative | Iowa's ABCD Project. (2005). This MOU is a nonbinding agreement between the Iowa ABCD II Initiative partners and Dubuque Medical Associates to participate as a demonstration site in the Iowa ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Initiative. | December 2005 | State-specific | Iowa |
| ABCD Healthy Beginnings Social-Emotional Screening Card | Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings. (2005). This document was designed for Illinois ABCD pilot sites to track implementation and results of social-emotional screening. | December 2005 | State-specific | Illinois |
| ABCD/Healthy Beginnings Social/Emotional and Maternal Depression Information, Screening, and Referral program needs assessment form | Illinois ABCD Healthy Beginnings. (2005). This needs assessment was performed at pilot sites prior to each Healthy Beginnings training/presentation on social emotional screening implementation to assess the needs of each practice/clinic and tailor the program presentation to fit the needs identified in the survey responses. | December 2005 | State-specific | Illinois |
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