Strength-based Screening and Discussion

Before you screen, it is important to have identified quality referral resources to share with patients and families to meet needs identified in their assessment. Get to know your local community resources by creating relationships with partners. Building relationships with local community support resources takes time.

1. These are a few national organizations that have local supports, Aunt Bertha, Circles of Security, Help Me Grow, Postpartum Support International, and United Way 2-1-1.
2. Engage families/family advisors for feedback to ensure quality referral resources that meet families' needs.
3. Connect with your local AAP Chapter to get strengthen relationships with community support resource networks.
4. Get to know the community you serve by finding out more about your patient demographics. Here are a few resources can help you understand your community Annie E. Casey Foundation KidsCount Data Center Opportunity Atlas, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings.

Use Getting Started Guide to identify and implement a screening tool in practice, plan workflows, and create a community resource list.

Watch and learn from these webinars to identify screening tools, ask questions, counsel, identify referral resources, and bill for reimbursement

• Asking SDOH Questions
• Perinatal Depression Screening CME
• Social Emotional Development CME
• Effective Family Centered Communication Approaches and Role Play Handout

Practice strength-based, family-centered counseling and discussion with staff using these resources

• Learn the Signs. Act Early. Identifying Risks, Strengths, and Protective Factors - suggested supports and strategies to identify risks, strengths, and protective factors for pediatric clinicians via the developmental surveillance process. Pediatric clinicians can use suggested questions during health supervision visits
• Documenting ERH in Patient Charts - offers tips on how practices ask and document strengths and protective factors in Epic and Cerner. 
• AAP Mental Health Motivational Interviewing
• Practice Role Play Scenarios for Difficult SDOH Conversations (Video coming soon)
• ScreeningtTime.org CME and Simulations Note: must be logged into AAP.org to complete MOC; do not have to be AAP member to create login and receive MOC.
• Family-Centered Care Pediatric CARE Podcast
• Protective Factors and Positive Childhood Experiences Pediatric CARE Podcast
• Community Care North Carolina Perinatal Depression Getting Started