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- New Resources from the Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center.
- Clinical Preventive Services: Toolkits for clinicians: Adolescent | Young Adult. Each provides a one-page summary of recommended services and a supplemental document to facilitate implementation.
- Sources of Preventive Visit Data for Adolescents and Young Adults. This brief provides up-to-date information on the well visit measure in these national data sets.
- Medicaid Renewal. This flyer shares information and resources from the DC Department of Health Care Finance for providers and beneficiaries on the ongoing Medicaid Renewal process. The flyer gives specific instructions on how beneficiaries can update their contact information via District Direct and how providers can help assist patients and families in this process.
- MCO Transition. This flyer shares information and resources from the DC Department of Department of Health Care Finance for providers and beneficiaries regarding the change from CareFirst Community Health Plan, DC (CareFirst) to Amerigroup, DC (Amerigroup), effective April 1, 2023, in the District of Columbia Medicaid Managed Care (MCO) program. This flyer provides important information for both CareFirst enrollees, as well as Medicaid beneficiaries who would like to switch to a different full-risk MCO during open enrollment, while ensuring providers have up-to- date information regarding the transition.
- Are You a First-Time Parent of a New Baby? We want to hear from you! The Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, DC, is partnering with DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) to conduct a voluntary research study about the child care needs and preferences of first-time parents of infants. Take the survey here.
- Pediatric Health Network at Children's National Medical Center: A physician-led clinically integrated network (CIN) of providers. It is a collaboration between Children’s National Hospital and providers in the community to improve patient outcomes in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region. It is also a pathway for practices to transition successfully from fee for service to value and performance based payments.
- The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health and a DC interagency workgroup have produced a Navigation Tool for Youth and Families in DC Moving from Child to Adult Public Program Services. This tool can be used as a starting point to learn about specific agencies, program eligibility, documentation requirements, and services
- DC-Approved Child Mental Health Screening Tools (revised March 2023; pdf). DC Medicaid Managed Care Organizations are required to ensure annual mental health screenings by the beneficiaries' Primary Care Provider, using an approved screening tool. Also see the Domain-Specific Screening Tools crosswalk.
- DC Autism Collaborative (DC-AC): Formed in 2020, the DC-AC is a public-private coalition of stakeholders working to improve autism care in the District. As part of these efforts, free resources are available for parents and providers in English, Spanish and Amharic.
- Improving Adolescent and Young Adult Health: Challenges and Opportunities Emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic. This two-page brief offers strategies for advancing health care for AYAs during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It includes a focus on preventive services and mental and behavioral health care, in the context of the pandemic.
- NASHP recently released several resources to help guide implementation of the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN:
- National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN Implementation Guide: This NASHP guide is intended to provide considerations for stakeholders in using, adapting, and implementing the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN.
- Medicaid Financing of Care Coordination Services for CYSHCN: This NASHP resource compares and analyzes five state’s strategies to finance care coordination for CYSHCN.
- Aligning Quality Measures with the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN: This NASHP resource describes key considerations and challenges in care coordination quality measurement and identifies sample metrics for evaluating the quality of care coordination systems as outlined in the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN.
- Health centers in all eight wards are offering free immunizations for children and teens. Use this map to find the locations of these health centers and if they accept Medicaid HERE.
- The Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum (PCCC): An Interprofessional Resource to Effectively Engage Patients and Families in Achieving Optimal Child Health Outcomes, 2nd Edition. This curricula includes a collection of tools and resources for all individuals, including pediatric clinicians, state agencies (Medicaid, Title V), family advocates, family/professional partnership groups, and other pediatric medical home stakeholders interested in care coordination. The resource was developed by staff of the National Center for Care Coordination Technical Assistance at Boston Children's Hospital, in partnership with the National Center for Medical Home Implementation
- The DC Collaborative for Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care has developed Resources for Cross-Sector Collaborative Care (July 2019). These include:
- Highlighted resources: Please see these three important brochures which can assist your practice to increase and sustain high immunization coverage rates. Note that there are two types of Meningococcal vaccines provided through the VFC Program (MCV4 and MenB). While ACIP recommends MenB vaccination for certain risk groups, it also states that "all persons 16 through 18 years of age should be considered for MenB vaccine, except there is a specific contraindication." Healthcare providers are to initiate conversations with their teen patients about MenB vaccine availability, and the risk and benefits of MenB vaccination. Each patient-provider encounter is an opportunity to assess vaccine needs and immunize. Please make sure you are not missing vaccination opportunities for any of the recommended vaccines for all VFC-eligible children and your privately insured patients. As always, screening for VFC-eligible must occur at every visit.
- Updated School Health Resources, including updated Universal Health Certificate and Oral Health Assessment forms.
- Better Sleep for Breastfeeding Mothers, Safer Sleep for Babies. Tips on how to realistically support tired and overwhelmed mothers to breastfeed safely.
- The Opioid Epidemic and Maternal Health: Three Opportunities for Change. Tips on making the most of every interaction with new mothers to discus opioid use disorder, from prenatal care to building postpartum supports.
- Read the new Department of Health Care Finance transmittal – Pediatric Mental Health and Maternal Depression Screening Coverage and Tools (appoved 05/13/19). This transmittal discusses behavioral health in primary care as well as referral and provider resources.
- The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health/Got Transition with the University of California, San Francisco’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center created a toolkit titled Incorporating Health Care Transition Services into Preventive Care for Adolescents and Young Adults.
- The Immigrant Child Health Toolkit was created by the members of the Immigrant Child Health Committee of the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is intended for use by healthcare providers, social workers, and any others who care for immigrant children.
- www.mychildcaredc.org, a new child care search website from the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education that helps families discover child care options in one click! Share with your families by downloading the outreach toolkit.
- Read the DHCF transmittal on EPSDT Periodicity Schedule Updates and the Importance of Mental Health and Vision/Hearing Screenings.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the Medicaid Provider Enrollment Requirements (MPE) Toolkit to update providers enrolling or re-enrolling in the Medicaid program.
- Do you need access to your students’ immunization records? Then you need the District of Columbia Immunization Information System (DOCIIS). To gain access, you can now complete the mandatory training online!
- The DC-MD-VA (DMV) Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Resource Guide. The DMV PMH Resource Guide is a result of an ongoing collaboration between the DMV PMH Resource Guide Team and the community-based network of Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Professionals and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) Survivors throughout DC, MD, and VA. The goal of the guide is to develop, disseminate, and maintain a comprehensive, up-to-date, regional directory of specialized mental health providers, support groups, advocacy organizations, and other relevant clinical resources pertaining to perinatal mental health. This directory will assist healthcare providers, patients, and their families with obtaining specialized mental health evaluation and treatment during pregnancy and postpartum.
- The DC Collaborative for Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care has developed the Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit and Primer for Pediatric Primary Care Providers. Users will also want to download Using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Translated into Languages Other than English.
The Collaborative has also created the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Resource Guide for use by pediatric primary care providers in the Washington, DC area. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive listing of community behavioral health resources for children and adolescents in the District of Columbia.
- Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) releases Healthy Youth Resource Guide to all District schools and city-wide organizations that serve youth. Working in conjunction with DC Public Schools and the Public Charter School Board, OSSE created an adolescent health services and support directory for use as guidance for both school staff and organizations that serve youth. OSSE has also developed an online referral tracking system to assist school staff and District organizations in tracking and linking youth to adolescent health services and support.