Whole Child Health Alliance Resources
- Articles and Op-Eds
- Issue Briefs and White Papers
- Policy Recommendations
- Toolkits and Fact Sheets
- Webinars and Videos
Current Articles
- Link to WCHA Quarterly Resource Scans — This link directs to the Whole Child Health Alliance resources released to members quarterly. These articles give the latest information regarding relevant pediatric research and updates.
Foundational to Whole Child Health
- Addressing Social Drivers of Health: Evaluating Area-level Indices | Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation — Analyzes how geographical area-level social determinant of health indices incorporated into health care payments could be used to address social needs within communities.
- Lifelong Health | Harvard Center on the Developing Child — Describes the importance of positive and healthy experiences in the early stages of life.
- Pediatric Alternative Payment Models: Emerging Elements | Current Opinion in Pediatrics — Summarizes emerging elements of pediatric alternative payment models and identifies strategies to address barriers in implementing them.
- Proposing the Ideal Alternative Payment Model for Children | JAMA Network — Proposes components of child-focused alternative payment models to better meet the long-term developmental needs of children and their families.
- Accountable Communities for Health for Children and Families: Approaches for Catalyzing and Accelerating Success | National Academy of Medicine — Discusses how implementation of Accountable Communities for Health can improve health outcomes for children and families by addressing SDOHs.
- APM Framework White Paper | HCP-LAN — Discusses the 2017 refreshed APM framework to achieve better alignment with value-based care.
- Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships | Harvard Center on the Developing Child — Highlights the critical role of early childhood experiences and relationships in shaping children’s brain development, emphasizing the need for nurturing and responsive caregiving and the creation of supportive environments.
- State of the Field: Two-Generation Approaches to Family Well-Being | Aspen Institute — Provides an overview of the current state of two-generation approaches to family well-being, including best practices and challenges, while identifying strategies to address the needs of both parents and children simultaneously.
- Lived Experience: The Practice of Engagement in Policy | Nemours Children’s Health — Highlights the importance of engaging families with lived experiences in policy decisions, providing examples of effective engagement strategies and outlining key principles for meaningful engagement.
- Essential Integrative Activities within Cross-Sector Population Health Networks: An Organizing Framework | Nemours Children’s Health — Presents a framework highlighting the importance of collaboration and coordination when addressing SDOHs and promoting health equity, identifying integrative activities to achieve this goal.
- Opportunities for Medicaid to Transform Pediatric Care for Young Children to Promote Health, Development and Health Equity | National Institute for Children’s Health Quality — Identifies opportunities for Medicaid to improve care young children by implementing several initiatives, such as expanding access to early childhood screenings and providing care coordination for families.
- Young Child Health Transformation: What Practice Tells Us | InCK Marks — Examines the current state of child medical care and suggests a comprehensive approach is essential to address the multiple factors contributing to health inequities among children.
- Leveraging Medicaid to Address Social Determinants and Improve Child and Population Health | Georgetown Center for Children and Families — Discusses policy strategies and initiatives to strengthen the role of Medicaid in addressing SDOHs, such as housing instability, food insecurity and lack of access to transportation.
- Fostering Social and Emotional Health through Pediatric Primary Care: A Blueprint for Leveraging Medicaid and CHIP to Finance Change | Center for the Study of Social Policy — Offers a framework for using Medicaid and CHIP to improve social and behavioral health outcomes for children by integrating these services into pediatric primary care.
- Addressing Social Drivers through Pediatric Value-Based Care Models: Recommendations for Policymakers and Key Stakeholders | Nemours Children’s Health and Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy — Examines the barriers and accelerators of implementing value-based care for children, including recommendations for promoting transformation.
- Addressing Social Drivers through Pediatric Value-Based Care Models: Emerging Examples and Promising Approaches | Nemours Children’s Health and Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy — Provides case studies and policy recommendations for integrating SDOHs into value-based care models to improve the quality of care for children.
- Caring for the Whole Child: A New Way to Finance Initiatives to Improve Children’s Health and Well-being | Manatt — Highlights the potential benefits of a new financing approach focused on the whole child and provides recommendations for implementation.
- Alternative Payment Models to Support Child Health & Development: How to Design and Implement New Models | Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, Mental Health America and UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities — Provides a framework for developing and implementing an APM that integrates behavioral health services into pediatric care, including an overview of different models, such as bundled payments and capitation, and includes case studies of successful programs.
- Reforming Payment for Children’s Long-Term Health | The Commonwealth Fund and United Hospital Fund — Discusses the implementation and outcomes of New York’s Children’s value-based payment program, which aimed to improve quality of care and reduce costs for children with complex medical needs by transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based payment models.
- Design and Key Operational Components for High Performing Medical Homes for Young Children in Medicaid | InCK Marks — Describes the key designs of medical homes, emphasizing the importance of care coordination, family engagement and comprehensive care delivery.
- Advancing a Family-Centered Community Health System: A Community Agenda Focused on Child Health Care, Foundational Relationships, and Equity | Center for the Study of Social Policy — Outlines practical steps and recommendations for achieving equitable access to family-centered care.
- CMMI RFI Responses: Some Common Themes | Child and Family Policy Center and Mental Health America — Analyzes sixteen request for information responses from child health organizations to produce a summary of themes broadly shared.
- InCK Marks Letter to Biden — Provides key actions the federal government can take to improve the health and development of children and their families.
- APM Framework | HCP-LAN — Provides an overview of APMs and their potential benefits for improving health care quality and reducing costs.
- Bright Futures Toolkit 2nd Edition | American Academy of Pediatrics — Provides health care professionals with evidence-based tools and resources to promote the health and wellbeing in children and adolescents.
- Workforce Training Guide | Health Leads — Provides tools and resources for health care and community organizations to train staff on how to address the social determinants of health and incorporate social needs into clinical care.
- A Sourcebook on Medicaid’s Role in Early Childhood: Advancing High Performing Medical Homes and Improving Lifelong Health | InCK Marks — Describes opportunities under state Medicaid programs to finance more preventive, developmental and family-centered services for young children.
- High Performing Medical Homes In Brief | Adapted from Child and Family Policy Center| Child and Family Policy Center — Describes a framework for high-performing medical homes, outlining key principles for achieving high performance in medical homes.
- Elements of a High Performing Medical Home for Young Children in Medicaid — Provides quick points on the features of high performing medical homes.
- Webinar Series: Using Data to Support Health Equity Efforts | Health Care Transformation Task Force — Provides recordings from a series on using data to support health equity efforts, including strategies for collecting and analyzing data on social determinants of health and examples of how organizations have used data to advance health equity.
- Making Bright Futures Work! How Evidence, the Periodicity Schedule and the Bright Futures Guidelines Impact Practice | American Academy of Pediatrics — Provides an overview of the Bright Future guideline and its evidence-based recommendations for preventative health care, developmental screenings and health promotion, and how to incorporate them into clinical practice.
- Strategies for Providing Whole Child Care: A Blueprint for Meeting Children’s Social Needs | Manatt — Reviews recent developments and promising approaches for financing HRSN for children including 1115 waivers, “In Lieu of Services” (ILOS), and Children’s Health and Wellness Funds.
- Slide from Webinar: Child Health Transformation – Opportunities for Leveraging Change In Medicaid & CHIP — Focuses on the importance of high performing medical homes and provides recommendations on how to use Medicaid in this context.