Pediatrics Supporting Parents
This initiative has the ambitious long-term goal of improving pediatric primary care to foster social and emotional development in the same way that it focuses on physical health and cognitive development. Pediatrics Supporting Parents’ ultimate vision is to help ensure that all children from birth to age 3 receive the supports they need to achieve kindergarten readiness and positive life outcomes.
Pediatricians partnering with parents to promote social and emotional development.
The early years of life (birth to age three) represent a unique opportunity for pediatricians to work with families to support children’s healthy development. This is a time when families play a big role in their children’s social and emotional growth. It’s also a time when pediatricians can have a big impact on families—during these early years, families are especially involved, curious and open to new ideas.
We can make the most of this period by working at the family and pediatrics practice level to help pediatricians foster interactions between parents and children that support healthy social and emotional growth. And by focusing on at-risk children, we can help all families have access to the programs and resources needed to support their children’s early development.
Who
18 pediatric practices across the nation
Our Role
Leveraging its background in improvement science, NICHQ will provide oversight and technical assistance to support the pediatric practices as they test strategies, collect and analyze data, and report on findings that lead to sustainable improvement, which ultimately can be scaled nationally.
Funder
Phase one: The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Pediatrics Supporting Parents Fund. Phase two: Donors like you.
Other Information
If you are interested in learning more about this project, email us at [email protected]
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Pediatrics Supporting Parents project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
