StriveTogether Prenatal-Three Impact and Improvement Network
An initiative to increase school readiness and reduce disparities in children ages birth to three.
Who
Six state-based communities
Our Role
Working alongside StriveTogether, NICHQ will support communities in using continuous quality improvement science to identify, narrow and improve critical developmental outcomes measures. The ultimate goal is to build the capability of local providers to track and leverage data to drive improvement and to identify specific strategies for improving outcomes for children prenatal to 3, which can then be amplified nationally as best practices.
Funder
The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation. StriveTogether is a lead partner on the project.
Project Impact
Why This Work Matters
Project Impact
Why This Work Matters
Research consistently shows that the most rapid period of brain development is in the first years of life, when a baby’s brain forms more than a million new neural connections every second. This cognitive, social and emotional growth is critical for later success in school and the workplace.
An estimated 3 million children across the U.S. each year are at risk of reaching kindergarten not ready to learn. Evidence shows that investment in children and their families in the earliest years helps communities create better education, health, social and economic outcomes that increase revenue and reduce the need for costly, less effective interventions later in life.
Keep reading this press release to find out more about the work and our national partners in change.
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 StriveTogether Prenatal-Three Impact and Improvement Network 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.”
