Resources

ASSESSMENT REPORT | Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project 2021 Annual Assessment Report

NICHQ conducted the 2021 Annual Assessment to understand projects' organizational structures, satisfaction with the TASC, programmatic needs, progress toward benchmarks and key objectives, data capacity, and progress towards sustainability. Like the Needs Assessment from 2019 and the 2020 Annual Assessment, this year’s Annual Assessment sought to identify salient programmatic activities for the TASC. In this report, we describe the Annual Assessment’s methods and results, synthesize findings, and describe next steps for the TASC.

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CASE STORY | Build a Strong Foundation: How Child Welfare Agencies in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su) Improved Family Contact and Set the Stage for Future Family Engagement

Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact. This case story presents lessons learned from the Family Contact Improvement Partnership (FCIP), a cross-sector collaboration between agencies working with children in the foster care system to improve family contact procedures in Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su).

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CASE STORY | Circle of Respect: Baltimore's B'More for Healthy Babies Healthy Family America (FHA) Home Visiting Program Prioritizes Collaboration to Empower New Mothers

Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact. This brief presents lessons learned from Baltimore’s B’More for Healthy Babies (BHB) Healthy Family America (HFA) home visiting program on how to establish multi-directional communication across funders, city agencies, home visiting programs, and families to create a culture of collaboration that benefits families with young children.

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Addressing Early Childhood Health Equity in Communities and States

Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact. These briefs synthesize the recent work of the ECHE Landscape Project and highlight the themes and findings that emerged across the project activities.

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Implicit Bias Resource Guide

Recognizing and addressing biases is a critical step towards eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity. In this brief, you’ll find three resources to support your work to address your own implicit biases: seven steps we can all take to minimize implicit bias; A Q&A with health experts about how to recognize and address implicit bias; and a selection of stories shared with NICHQ about the many ways bias has affected individuals.

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Maternal Depression: First Steps

This issue brief will help mothers, families and family advocates understand the signs of maternal depression, the interdependence between caregiver-child health and well-being, and provides guidance on how mothers can connect with their pediatricians to get the help they need to heal.

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Data-for-Equity Research Brief

Child care is unaffordable for the majority of working parents, especially for low-income and black and Hispanic working parents. This research brief provides insight and analysis about the challenges families face in affording childcare, which can underpin inequities in early childhood health and development.

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