Health
CHDI focuses on advancing and informing effective, sustainable improvements in primary and preventive pediatric health care. Our current strategic goals for health care are described below.
- Developing and strengthening family-centered medical homes to ensure that every child in Connecticut has access to comprehensive, preventive, continuous health care.
- Improving outreach and care coordination to increase the number of children and families that receive care through a medical home.
- Developing a statewide system of multi-disciplinary child care consultation so that the health and mental health needs of children in child care settings will be identified and properly addressed by qualified consultants.
- Strengthening the capacity of primary care settings to effectively address the behavioral health concerns of children in their care.
- Advancing the development of a comprehensive and preventive community-based service system for young children by helping communities build linkages between health services and early childhood programs.
- Through the EPIC training program, educating pediatricians and their staff on best practices including early detection of developmental delays, prevention of child abuse and neglect, infant oral health, and behavioral health.
