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2018 Innovation Café

2018 Innovation Cafe: Strategies for Improving Children's Health

Plenaries

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences in Children and Families: Understanding Primary Care's Role in Prevention R.J. Gillespie, MD, MHPE, 2015–2016 OHA Transformation Center Clinical Innovation Fellow
  • Panel – Strategies for Youth Resilience: Strengthening Trajectories from Early Childhood through Young Adulthood Maggie Steele, MSW, Peace in Schools; Wes Rivers, MPA, OHA Public Health Division; Susan Fischer, M.Ed., AllCare Health; Safina Koreishi, MD, MPH, Columbia Pacific CCO  

Cafe presentations

Developmental screening

  • Metrics to Meaning: Using Data to Advance Health Equity across Sectors (Health Share of Oregon, Early Learning Multnomah) 
  • Pathways from Developmental Screening to Services: Ensuring Young Children Identified At Risk Receive Follow-up (Northwest Early Learning Hub, Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership, Marion-Polk Early Learning Hub) 
  • Help Me Grow Oregon: Advancing Developmental Promotion, Early Detection and Linkages to Services (Providence, Early Learning Hubs of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties) 

Childhood immunization

  • Prospective Analysis of Immunization Data: Using ALERT Data to Target Outreach for Combo2 (Health Share of Oregon) 
  • Coordinated Student Wellness Events in Yamhill County (Yamhill Community Care, Western Oregon Center for Therapeutic Lifestyle Change, Physician’s Medical Center) 
  • Improving Childhood Immunization Rates Using Practice-Focused Population Health Strategies (Children’s Health Alliance)
  • Improving 2-year-old Immunization Rates in Southwest Oregon (Douglas Public Health Network)
  •  A Regional Approach to Address Childhood Immunization Rates: AFIX Project (PacificSource Central Oregon, Deschutes County Health Services) 

Oral health integration

  • Improving Oral Health Outcomes for Young Children and Families with “Everybody Brush” (Advantage Dental) 
  • Oral Health Integration Menu. Order Up! (Capitol Dental Care)
  • Back to the Basics Prevention (Mercy Foundation)
  • Integrating Oral Health into Well-Child Visits (Care Oregon: Columbia Pacific CCO, Jackson Care Connect)  

Prenatal/Postpartum 

  • Improving the Health of Mothers and Babies in Central OR (Deschutes County Health Services) 
  • Family-Centered Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) Care: A Quality Improvement Project (OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital) 

DHS custody

  • Universal Evaluations for Youth Entering Foster Care – the RAPID Program (MindSights, Department of Human Services – Multnomah County, Health Share of Oregon) 
  • Using the Pathways Model to Provide Additional Supports to Children Coming into DHS Custody (PacificSource Columbia Gorge, Columbia Gorge Health Council, Hood River Health Department) 
  • Medical Home for Children in Foster Care (Randall Children’s Clinic-Legacy Emanuel)

Cross-sector

  • 211info Community Engagement Model: Strategic Partnerships for Health in Southern Oregon (211info, AllCare Health) 
  • Developing Early Literacy Promotion Opportunities: From Primary Care to Home Visiting and Beyond (Reach Out and Read Oregon, Multnomah County Health Department, Multnomah County Library) 
  • Improving Children’s Whole Health: Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists Providing Services in the Home (Family Tree Relief Nursery, InterCommunity Health Network CCO) 
  • Project Nurture: Integrated Substance Use Treatment and Maternity Care (Health Share of Oregon)
  • Social Determinants Screening and Veggie Rx Pilot (Benton County Health Services, Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties, Corvallis Environmental Center)  
  • A Rural Approach to Bridging Health Care and Social Determinants (Reliance eHealth Collaborative, Columbia Gorge Health Council) 
  • Pollywog – Prenatal and Parental Support (Early Learning Hub of Linn, Benton and Lincoln Counties, Samaritan Health Services) 
  • Breastfeeding Support Services: East Linn County (Linn County Public Health, Samaritan Lebanon Health Center)
  • Starting Strong: A CCO Cross-sector Member Incentive Program (Jackson Care Connect)
  • Community UPLiFT (Cascade Health Alliance, Southern Central Early Learning Hub)
  • Beyond Silos: Supporting Kids and Families through CCO and Early Learning Partnerships (Trillium Community Health Plan, United Way of Lane County, Lane Early Learning Alliance)
  • Improving Health Care and Early Education through Innovation Collaboration (Building Healthy Families, Winding Waters Clinic) 
  • Building a Trauma-Informed Community (Yamhill Community Care)
  • Why You Should Ask: Screening for Childhood Food Insecurity in the Medical Home (Providence Milwaukie Hospital, Providence Family Medicine Residency Program)  

Contact: Transformation.Center@odhsoha.oregon.gov