Course Goal and Objectives

The goals of this EQIPP course are to:

• Use an early relational health approach to assess and support the development of the whole child in promotion of the child’s lifelong health.
• Improve rates of assessing and screening, discussing, referral, and follow-up for family interests and concerns, family strengths/protective factors, perinatal depression, social drivers of health, and social-emotional development in well child visits ages 0-5 years.
• Improve family partnerships, enhance the use of family advisors, and develop relationships with community partners to deliver high-quality care.

Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to apply knowledge from AAP endorsed guidelines, policy statements, technical reports, and recommendations for well child checks to do the following:

• Elicit and address family interests and concerns.
• Identify and build on family strengths and protective factors.
• Perform perinatal depression screening using a validated tool at recommended well child checks, discuss results, and provide a primary care intervention and follow-up plan on positive screens.
• Assess and address social drivers of health (SDOH) that emerge from the family’s and community’s circumstances, and that affect health in positive and negative ways.
• Perform social-emotional developmental screening at all well child checks, discuss results, and provide a follow-up plan and referral, if indicated, on positive screens.