Key Clinical Activities

The key clinical activities in this EQIPP course include the following:

• Assess Social Health and Well-being
• Address Identified Needs

Assess Social Health and Well-being

Effective well child checks support healthy child development and foster a collaborative partnership with the patient/family in a manner that respects family beliefs, values and confidentiality. The practice promotes desired social, developmental, mental, behavioral, and health outcomes of infants, young children, and their families by engaging patients/families in the following ways:

• Elicit and address the interests and concerns of the family.
• Learn from and build on family strengths.
• Screen and assess for the following:
  • Perinatal depression
  • Social drivers of health that emerge from the family’s and community’s circumstances that affect the child’s and family’s health in positive and negative ways
  • Social emotional development

Address Identified Needs

This key clinical activity (KCA) discusses how to address identified interests, concerns, or needs identified during the well child check. Such addressment includes:

• Candid and open conversation with the family
• Discussion of all screening and assessment results
• Culturally and linguistically effective counseling/education
• Shared planning to address needs related to patient and family strengths and protective factors as well as social needs of the patient and family
• Referrals for further evaluation as needed
• Appropriate linkages to community support to meet identified needs using a warm hand-off
• Planned follow-up