Identifying and addressing behavioral health concerns in Brown County children
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Hosted community forum to build awareness and identify opportunities and challenges
Hosted ASQ trainings and mini-summits involving all health care systems and additional community partners serving mothers with young children
Secured agreement from all health care systems to uniform screening of young children at regular intervals at well child visits
Implemented a Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) to all mothers to screen for depression
Improved information sharing among health care organizations, identifying agreement among all health care systems on initial performance indicators to track screenings, including completion rate. Developed a Community Information System to track indicators and identified action steps to expand key performance indicators
Documented a 10% increased referral rate to the Birth to Three program in the final year, meaning more children could receive services which may improve reaching developmental milestones
Project partners leveraged over $90,000
Project partners have been invited to numerous state and regional conferences to present their approach and findings
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