Partnering With Existing Early Childhood Developmental Screening Initiatives
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Join the Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center on Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 4-5:30 PM EDT for the webinar “Partnering With Existing Early Childhood Developmental Screening Initiatives."
Presenters will share their experiences with partnering across sectors for screening initiatives in their communities. They will highlight how to leverage local opportunities and create stronger communication between the medical home and broader early childhood system. Presenters include:
- Rebecca Hernandez, MSEd, Manager, Help Me Grow Orange County
- Barb Tengesdal, PhD, Executive Director, First 5 Fox Valley and Help Me Grow Wisconsin
- Jennifer Koop, PhD, ABPP, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Children’s Wisconsin
- Melissa Passarelli, MA, Associate Director of Implementation and System-Building, Help Me Grow National Center
This webinar is for early childhood health care providers, community-based organizations involved in early childhood developmental screening, public health workers, and early childhood system leaders. By the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the attributes of the OC Children’s Screening Registry for primary health care and community-based providers.
- Identify the intent of the OC Children’s Screening Registry for sharing screening results.
- Recognize how HMG Navigator aids in the screening process.
CEU credits will be available to those who attend the live webinar.
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Barb Tengesdal, PhD
Executive Director
First 5 Fox Valley
Dr. Tengesdal is the executive director of First 5 Fox Valley, leading the organization’s work in cultivating a community that empowers and supports every family in building a solid foundation for young children. In her role, Dr. Tengesdal is responsible for advancing the strategies, goals, and initiatives of the First 5 Fox Valley early childhood coalition and sharing expertise in child development that is critical to building the infrastructure of the new Help Me Grow Wisconsin navigator system that matches families with young children to the resources available in local areas.
She is a respected leader in the field of early childhood with a deep understanding of how to create resource equity for all families, enabling our youngest children to thrive. Dr. Tengesdal is a national technical consultant to the BUILD Initiative’s Prenatal to 3 Capacity Building Hub supporting states and communities in creating early childhood systems and policies priorities. She has taught ECE courses at colleges and universities in >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63999144 BCX0"> states, was a lobbyist on children’s issues, and a policy fellow with the Children’s Defense Fund and National Women’s Law Center. At the heart of her values, she believes that childhood should be a journey, not a race through life.
Jennifer Koop, PhD, ABPP
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Koop is a pediatric neuropsychologist and professor of neurology who has been on faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 2005. She is, or has been involved in, numerous studies investigating the cognitive outcomes associated with a variety of neurological disorders. She is the primary investigator on two large clinical databases and was the primary investigator on a funded research project using fMRI in children with posterior fossa tumors. Dr. Koop was a clinical research scholar at the Medical College of Wisconsin for two years.
As a pediatric neuropsychologist, Dr. Koop has the specialized training and expertise to explore the brain-behavior relationships and the impact that various neurological insult or disease, including socioeconomic stressors, have on the developmental trajectory of specific cognitive functions. An individual’s cognitive profile has direct implications on educational, employment, and psychological outcomes. Understanding the cognitive profiles in children with neurological disorders can assist with treatment planning in order to maximize developmental progress and psychosocial outcomes. >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW220082006 BCX0"> Dr. Koop has clinical expertise in early cognitive development and evaluation of cognitive functioning in preschool-aged children.
More recently, Dr. Koop has worked with community collaborators to identify novel strategies to promote early intervention for young children with delays or with limited access to developmental resources.
Rebecca Hernandez, MSEd
Starting in 2006, Rebecca Hernandez has led the effort to establish Help Me Grow in Orange County, California with the support of First 5 Orange County, Children’s Health of Orange County, and University of CA, Irvine. The Orange County Centralized Access Point launched in 2007 and currently serves nearly 3,000 children per year. She has been instrumental in the development of technology specific to the Help Me Grow system including STAR, a database for tracking referrals, care coordination, and outcomes as well as community, family, and child health care provider outreach. Since 2014 and with funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rebecca advanced a collective impact effort focusing on the implementation of the OC Children’s Screening Registry, a countywide database used to communicate screening results across sectors, including early care and education, community-based organizations, and health care providers.
As a consultant for the Help Me Grow National Center, Rebecca fills the role of implementation expert to support replication efforts across the country. She is an alumna of Stanford University where she studied Human Biology with an emphasis in Child Development, and she holds a master’s degree in education from Wheelock College in Boston.
Melissa Passarelli
Associate Director of Implementation & System Building
Help Me Grow National Center
Melissa Passarelli serves as the associate director of implementation and system-building at the Help Me Grow National Center. Prior to this role, Melissa served as the director of programs at Docs for Tots where she directed HMG Long Island, acted as the local Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grant (ECCS) team lead, provided technical assistance to physicians and other providers on implementing screening initiatives, coordinated HMG efforts across New York State, and served as CDC's Act Early Ambassador for New York State from 2019-2022.
Melissa has an M.A. in International Disaster Psychology from the University of Denver and a B.A. in Psychology and Public Policy from The George Washington University. During her education she trained as a trauma therapist and helped establish Denver's Trauma & Disaster Recovery Clinic, as well as worked for non-profits such as First Book that focused on promoting equitable opportunities and outcomes for all.
**Live Attendance Required** (complete within 30 days of event). All registrants will have 30-day access to the session recording.
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Contact hours and CEUs are automatically added to your registration for no additional charge. Registrants can earn up to 0.15 CEUs or 1.5 Contact hours for attending this event. Continuing Education Units are awarded with live attendance, completed session evaluation, and a passing quiz score of 75% or greater.
Learner Objectives:
- Describe the attributes of the OC Children’s Screening Registry for primary health care and community-based providers.
- Identify the intent of the OC Children’s Screening Registry for sharing screening results.
- Recognize how HMG Navigator aids in the screening process.
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