Promoting Optimal Child Development
A discovery grant to determine how to best leverage child-serving primary care practices to reinforce positive socio-emotional behaviors in parents and primary caregivers of very young children.
Who
Experts and leaders in the early childhood mental health field as well as families.
Our Role
NICHQ conducted an environmental scan of related initiatives, peer-reviewed literature, reports and websites; disseminated a survey to experts engaging in existing interventions within the field conducted interviews with leaders in the early childhood mental health field; and hosted an expert meeting to identify promising levers for change and potential measures to track improvement in early childhood social and emotional development. The work resulted in a report and webinar of the findings.
Funder
The project was funded by the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust and conducted in partnership with Ariadne Labs.
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 Promoting Optimal Child Development 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.”
