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 health service system for young children through support of the Promoting Health & Learning initiative, which is helping communities build linkages between health services and early childhood programs.
  
  
• Partnering with the Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to educate pediatricians and their staff on best practices including early detection of developmental delays, surveillance of child abuse and neglect, and oral health through the EPIC training program.