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About HealthySteps Colorado
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HealthySteps helps pediatric primary care providers address common and complex childhood development issues.
The evidence-based program ensures all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life by integrating a child development expert into the health care team.
HealthySteps helps clinic increase capacity to address childhood development problems. Pediatric primary care teams have an impossibly long list of services to provide during a well-child visit that can last just 15 minutes. HealthySteps provides tailored support for common and complex concerns that practices often lack time or resources to address, such as behavior, sleep, feeding, attachment, parental depression, social determinants of health, and adapting to life with a baby or toddler.
“The best part of being a HealthySteps Specialist is being the person I needed when I became a new mother. It’s individualized care for the new mother who comes in."
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- Sherri Amen, MA, IMH-E®, Healthy Steps Specialist, Common Spirit Primary Care of Fort Morgan
Provide personalized, relationship-based care. A HealthySteps Specialist placed within the practice partners with caregivers and the primary care team to identify concerns around development and family needs, offering support strategies, anticipatory guidance, and community resources. This relationship-based approach strengthens connections among caregivers, children, and the pediatric practice.
Offer higher-quality care. As a result of the time, structure, and relationships that the HealthySteps program provides, physicians report greater satisfaction with the quality of care they can give to babies, young children and their families and patients indicate improved experiences.
HealthySteps in Colorado
HealthySteps in Colorado by the numbers:
ABCD is the Colorado program lead for HealthySteps.
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HealthySteps is the pediatric primary care program designed and administered by ZERO TO THREE, the nation’s leading nonprofit working to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. ABCD has been certified by ZERO TO THREE to implement, expand, and identify pathways to sustain HealthySteps in Colorado.
ABCD supports current and future HealthySteps sites by:
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Helping new sites to estimate program costs, and secure community and site-specific funding sources
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Providing onboarding training, technical assistance and ongoing professional development to participating practices
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Support sites in achieving fidelity to the HealthySteps model
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Identifying and cultivating potential new sites
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Gathering and evaluating data to assess the impact of HealthySteps on reducing health care costs and promoting the health and well-being of participating families, babies and young children in Colorado
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Advocate with local, community, and state leaders for HealthySteps expansion and sustainability across the state