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When blended together, the system of care is transformed by:
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PEOPLE
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Building capacity in a clinic system and the surrounding community through a shared focus on early integrated preventive care and reducing barriers to care
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Champion:
at least one |
| What they do: |
Provide top level support, broad expertise, energy and credibility to the project |
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Program Manager: one |
| What they do: |
Coordinates overall efforts to meet the project goals and outcomes |
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Case Managers:
one at each clinic hub site |
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Work specifically with target population, troubleshoots issues that prevent access to care, coordinates inreach effort at hub sites and outreach effort with CBOs |
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Trainer:
one |
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Works within clinic and target communities training "trainers", teaching preventive practices and the importance of a health care home |
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Community Advocates:
multiple |
| What they do: |
Respected members of a community who provide credibility to health promotion messages |
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When blended together, the system of care is transformed by:
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RESOURCES
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Providing a multi-dimensional integrated approach to health that includes physical, mental, social, emotional, developmental and oral health domains
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Community Tools:
Health Education Materials |
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Provide health information and sources of care to parents and child advocates |
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"Red Flag" Development & Oral Health Tools |
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Help parents and advocates catch problems earlier |
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Clinical Tools:
EPSDT Forms |
| What they do: |
Ensure that well child visits are comprehensive |
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Clinical Tools:
Clinical Caries Risk Assessment Tool |
| What they do: |
Allows primary care medical providers to assess the oral health of a child and when to provide fluoride varnish |
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When blended together, the system of care is transformed by:
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COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE
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Creating a service-based program that links children to a community-based, integrated continuum of care
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| What you need: |
FQHCs and/or other community based clinics |
| What they do: |
Provide integrated preventive health care and dental services to low income children |
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CBOs |
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Such as WIC, Early Head Start, Head Start, ECEAP, child care providers... provide connections to families with young children |
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Other Community Providers |
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Such as mental health specialists or pediatric dentists serve as consultants to project and a referral source for specialty care |
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CHAP (Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies) |
| What they do: |
Central referral source for the community - one stop shopping for families seeking care |
