Improving Healthcare for Children in Foster Care
A project to maximize the current health status and long term well being of children in foster care by implementing systemic changes in the accessibility, delivery, coordination and supervision of healthcare services (including mental health services) for children in foster care.
Who
Eight child welfare agencies in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ohio and Vermont.
Our Role
Facilitated a Breakthrough Series learning collaborative to apply quality improvement methodology to the practice of healthcare related systems change.
Funder
The project was funded by Casey Family Program and conducted in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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 Improving Healthcare for Children in Foster Care 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.”
