Healthy Child Development & School Readiness
February 26–27, 2009
Project Thrive at NCCP joined the Build Initiative in Denver, CO to co-host a learning collaborative for eight state teams focused on the intersection of health, mental health and school readiness. The goals of the conference were to:
- To build upon emerging best program practices and policies from the health and mental health systems to support school readiness strategies.
- To support the health system in adopting exemplary health and mental health practices.
- To identify key policy actions that states can take to promote healthy child development and school readiness.
- To strengthen the linkages between health/mental health and early care and education and family support efforts.
Consistent with both Build and NCCP approaches, a strong emphasis was placed on peer-to-peer learning and sharing. State teams were provided opportunities to work together on action-oriented agendas that support systemic change for children and families.
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Presentations
- Conference Overview (373K)
This overview places child health strategies in the context of state school readiness efforts and outlines the meeting goals. - Keynote 1: Primary and Preventive Health Care and School Readiness: Health Policy Strategies to Improve Children’s Healthy Development (693K)
Neva Kaye provides a framework for the different roles the health system can play in ensuring children start school healthy and prepared for success. - Keynote 1: Healthy Connections: The role of the health sector in helping kids grow up healthy and ready for success. (133K)
Amy Fine provides a framework for the different roles the health system can play in ensuring children start school healthy and prepared for success. - Keynote 2: Addressing Children’s Mental Health and Other Special Needs in an Early Childhood/School Readiness System (1M)
This presentation by Deborah Perry, PhD, and Judith Meyers, PhD, provide a framework for prevention, early intervention and treatment strategies within the health system to address children’s social and emotional development. - Setting the Context: Disparities and Healthy Child Development (561K)
Charles Bruner, PhD, introduces Keynote 3. - Keynote 3: Community Building and Ensuring Child Health Equity: Closing the Gaps in Health Disparities (2M)
Angela Sauaia, MD, PhD, describes the disparities in young children’s health that exist by race, class, culture, and neighborhood and the resultant need for community-building as well as direct service approaches to addressing these issues. - Update on Federal Policy and State Child Health Opportunities (679K)
Charles Bruner, PhD, provides an overview of the SCHIP reauthorization legislation and the health and early childhood provisions within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Meeting Materials
- Meeting Agenda (140K)
- Workshop Descriptions (149K)
- Biographies (577K)
Briefing Book Materials
- The Role of State Health Policy in Multi-Sector System and Service Linkages for Young Children (963K)
- Helping Parents Raise Healthy, Happy, Productive Children (95K)
- Health Matters: The Role of Health and the Health Sector in Place-based Initiatives for Young Children (484K)
- Clinical Health Care Practice and Community Building: Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthy Child Development (251K)
- Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children's Mental Health Policy in the United States (2M)
- Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness: A Community Guide (382K)
- Reducing Maternal Depression and Its Impact on Young Children: Toward a Responsive Early Childhood Policy Framework (261K)
- Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation Tool Kit (644K)
- Spending Smarter: A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness (371K)
- State Early Childhood Policies: Highlights from the Improving the Odds for Young Children Project (858K)