Priorities Update January 2, 2017 New items in red text Priorities Addressed Activity Get Ready Guilford The Duke Endowment is partnering with Guilford County to build a continuum of care from the prenatal period to Initiative age three through medical homes. This is called the Get Ready Guilford Initiative; you can read more about it on All New Parents our blog at www.getreadyguilford.org/blog-2 Connected to Christina Dobson has been hired as the Get Ready Guilford Initiative’s Project Manager. Needed Resources 46 people, representing local, state, and national partners, convened in Charlotte on December 7th to provide Leverage and Expand feedback on the Theory of Change that will guide the work, to get updates on the progress of Get Ready Guilford Parenting Education and to begin planning an April site visit with a national funding organization that is interested in this work. Resources R/R is in the process of sharing the model with partners throughout Guilford County. Improve Developmental Building the Continuum Series of of meetings with national and local representatives from Partnership for Community Care, OB Care Screening Process & Connections to Management, Nurse-Family Partnership, Family Connects, and HealthySteps to plan how current processes Resources and practices will be integrated to drive population-level outcomes. Community Action for Healthy Babies Improve Referral serves in a partnering role. Processes Natalie Tackitt has been hired as Guilford County’s HealthySteps Coordinator and hiring of HealthySteps Build Culture of Specialists (6 FTE) is underway. Continuous Quality Two pediatric practices have agreed to participate in the HealthySteps pilot program: Rice Center for Children Improvement and Adolescents and Greensboro Pediatrics. We are close to securing a third site in High Point. Exploring a Data Infrastructure to Support the Continuum of Care Feasibility study for Integrated Data System is underway; delivery of final report is expected in January 2018. Progress is being made on getting a Guilford County Schools identification number added to the birth certificate of children born in Guilford County. United Way of Greater Greensboro convened seven initiatives within Guilford to explore development of a common IDS. Coaching to Strengthen Community Capacity Continuous Quality Improvement work with Root Cause is underway, with a Task Force meeting for the first time in early January. The first cohort, consisting of 15 programs, will launch in April 2018. Messaging to Build Awareness & Drive Action (See public will building)
Priorities Update January 2, 2017 New items in red text Priorities Addressed Activity Get Ready Guilford Initiative All New Parents Connected to Needed Resources Leverage and Expand Parenting Education Resources Improve Developmental Screening Process & Connections to Resources Improve Referral Processes Build Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement The Duke Endowment is partnering with Guilford County to build a continuum of care from the prenatal period to age three through medical homes. This is called the Get Ready Guilford Initiative; you can read more about it on our blog at www.getreadyguilford.org/blog-2 Christina Dobson has been hired as the Get Ready Guilford Initiative’s Project Manager. 46 people, representing local, state, and national partners, convened in Charlotte on December 7th to provide feedback on the Theory of Change that will guide the work, to get updates on the progress of Get Ready Guilford and to begin planning an April site visit with a national funding organization that is interested in this work. R/R is in the process of sharing the model with partners throughout Guilford County. Building the Continuum Series of of meetings with national and local representatives from Partnership for Community Care, OB Care Management, Nurse-Family Partnership, Family Connects, and HealthySteps to plan how current processes and practices will be integrated to drive population-level outcomes. Community Action for Healthy Babies serves in a partnering role. Natalie Tackitt has been hired as Guilford County’s HealthySteps Coordinator and hiring of HealthySteps Specialists (6 FTE) is underway. Two pediatric practices have agreed to participate in the HealthySteps pilot program: Rice Center for Children and Adolescents and Greensboro Pediatrics. We are close to securing a third site in High Point. Exploring a Data Infrastructure to Support the Continuum of Care Feasibility study for Integrated Data System is underway; delivery of final report is expected in January 2018. Progress is being made on getting a Guilford County Schools identification number added to the birth certificate of children born in Guilford County. United Way of Greater Greensboro convened seven initiatives within Guilford to explore development of a common IDS. Coaching to Strengthen Community Capacity Continuous Quality Improvement work with Root Cause is underway, with a Task Force meeting for the first time in early January. The first cohort, consisting of 15 programs, will launch in April 2018. Messaging to Build Awareness & Drive Action (See public will building)