Recent Reports, Publications, and Resources
1. Research Report on Developmental Surveillance and Screening in Primary Care
The Commonwealth Fund has published a report entitled Developmental Screening in Primary Care: The Effectiveness of Current Practice and Recommendations for Improvement, which finds that developmental delays in early childhood are significantly under-identified by primary care providers. The author suggests that financial, educational, and other barriers to physicians' use of developmental screening tools need to be addressed. Go to:
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=605625
2. Common Vision, Different Paths: Five States’ Journeys toward Comprehensive Prenatal-to-Five Systems
This joint report from Zero To Three and Pre-K Now articulates a common vision for early childhood systems in which programs work together to provide high-quality early learning and comprehensive services. Common Vision reveals lessons learned from five states' unique journeys toward such prenatal-to-five systems and identifies four cornerstones that have helped states succeed in this work. Advocates and policymakers will find guidance on how to build on the momentum around individual programs for the larger push toward systems that will benefit all young children and families. A diverse group of funders worked together to support this publication, including: the Buffett Early Childhood Fund; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The report can be seen at:
http://www.preknow.org/documents/CommonVision_Dec2007.pdf
3. Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community: 2008 Resource Packet
This packet is intended for service providers and others who work to promote healthy families and prevent child abuse and neglect. It includes five tip sheets in English and Spanish for providers to share with parents. You can order up to 750 copies to distribute to your members or other constituents. Guidelines for pre-ordering the packet been developed to ensure broad national dissemination through federally funded Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) grantees in each State, our National Prevention Partners, and their affiliates/member agencies. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED NO LATER THAN JANUARY 15, 2008. To read more, visit: http://www.childwelfare.gov/preventing/preorder/
4. New Briefs on Child Care and Early Education from the Center for Law and Social Policy The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has recently published the following: Improving Access to Child Care and Early Education for Immigrant Families: A State Policy Checklist http://www.clasp.org/publications/state_policy_checklist07.pdf
Policies to Support Immigrant and Limited English Proficient (LEP) Early Care and Education Providers http://www.clasp.org/publications/policies_support_lep_providers07.pdf
5. Final Report: National Training Institute for Frontline Supervisors
Here is a report describing a project that refined, tested, and delivered a "Train-the-Trainer" model to the National Training Institute for Frontline Supervisors. The project also provided a distributed learning, technical assistance and consulting model to assist community human service employers, families and consumers nationwide to recruit, retain, and train direct support professionals and frontline supervisors. Published by the MN UCEDD. (September 2007) Go to: http://rtc.umn.edu/docs/NTIFFSFinalProjectReport.pdf
6. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Spanish Language Website Free, accurate information on many neurological disorders is now available on a new Spanish language website from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Health information featured on the new website includes publications on stroke, dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and autism, as well as many other neurological disorders. The publications can be downloaded or ordered free of charge. The website also provides information on clinical studies, links to non-profit organizations that offer information and assistance on neurological disorders, and a contact form where people can submit questions on topics related to health and biomedical research. To visit the website, go to: http://www.espanol.ninds.nih.gov/
