Goal 3: Increase healthcare provider awareness and understanding of
the importance of gestation through age 2
Anticipated Impact
Children’s Colorado has over 1,200 providers that serve as a national touch point
for young children and their families. Providing training to all levels of clinical staff
and extending the training to providers at pediatric and family practices outside
of Children’s Colorado network will lead to improved health outcomes. Providing
provider training will lead to improved interventions with families, and, to improve
health outcomes for children through the following:
OO Increased
awareness among all level of providers about the importance of the
First 1,000 Days.
OO Increased
provider comfort with discussing psychosocial and emotional issues
with patients and families.
OO Improved
provider knowledge about the internal and external resources
available for patients with psychosocial and emotional needs.
OO Provide
providers both information and resources to assist patients and
families that are living in vulnerable situations and/or are exposed to adverse
experiences and environments.
As the universal screening initiative is rolled out, training providers on implementation
of psychosocial screening, and the associated identification, triage and referral
processes (see Goal #4).
Strategy 3.1
Offer thorough and impactful training to all levels of medical staff at Children’s
Hospital Colorado to educate medical providers with information about how to
prevent, identify and mitigate toxic stress.
Tactic: Content development
As a first step, the hospital will convene a small team of these experts and a
representative from the professional development group within the hospital.
This group will be charged with creating an effective training module that can be
delivered to caregiver teams within the hospital in a manner that is both impactful
and efficient.
Training modules will have specific and measureable learning objectives and will be
linked to specific and observable changes in practice. To ensure that outcomes are
being achieved, the team developing the training may want to consider pre and post
testing to verify that participants are mastering learning objectives.
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