Tools and Resources are embedded within features on the pages of each of our Focal Areas. They are also outlined, described and hyperlinked below.
Tools and Resources
Navigating the Health Care System (Health Literacy)
Lesson Plans– Lesson plans and materials for teen and adult versions of NTHCS. Includes:
- NTHCS for Teens– Full suite of materials needed to present lessons. Includes:
- Module One, Module Two, Module Three, and Module Four– Zip files for each module
- Optional Review Activities– Optional Review Activities Zip File
- Electric Version: NTHCS Activities- Assign, Complete and Return Activities Online
- Activities At A Glance– A table with quick links to materials for each activity
- Facilitator’s Guide– Your guide to learning and presenting the curriculum
- Optional Activity: Trustworthy eHealth Sources, from Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Health Information for Teens– Doctor-reviewed advice on body and mind from the experts at KidsHealth
- NTHCS: ALASKA– An Alaska-specific version of NTHCS lesson plans
- Audience: Modules 1-4 are for older teens (typically high school and college-age)
- Module 5 is for adults who provide care to adolescents
- Click to Download Zip Folder of Module 5 Materials
- Checklist: Owning Your Own Health– A checklist of 10 “to do” items to be prepared to manage your own health and interact with care providers
- NTHCS for Adults– Scripted slide deck for presenting info on how to navigate the health care system to adults
- NTHCS Resources– Resources adults can use at home to build health literacy skills among the teens in their lives
- Owning Your Health Checklist– A one-page checklist of basic tasks teens should complete
- Home Use Version of the Navigating the Health Care System workbook
- KidsHealth– Doctor-reviewed advice on body and mind from the experts at KidsHealth, from Nemours Children’s Health
Podcast– Champions for Children podcast episode featuring Navigating the Health Care System
NTHCS Brochure– An overview of the teen curriculum, including topics covered in each module
Overview Slides: NTHCS for Teens– Overview of Navigating the Health Care Upstream
- NTHCS Overview Slides– NTHCS is an adolescent health literacy curriculum available for use at no-cost, offered by Nemours Children’s Health (slide deck and PowerPoint)
Flyer– One page flyer for teachers/parents, and for teens
Communications Toolkit– Contains content champions of health literacy can copy/paste to spread the word about NTHCS.
Financing & Payment Models
Health Affairs Blog: Caring for Kids in the Covid-19 Era– This blog posts shares recommendations for addressing social factors in the wake of Covid-19.
Building Cross Sector Partnerships from the Ground Up – Lessons on aligning Medicaid and early childhood initiatives.
Children’s Health & Wellness Fund – Read about how to galvanize investments in social determinants of health for children
Pediatric Value-Based Care Models– Examples and recommendations for financing integrated care models. Includes:
- Health Affairs Blog: Caring for Kids in the Covid-19 Era– This blog posts shares recommendations for addressing social factors in the wake of Covid-19.
- Pediatric Value-Based Care Models: Executive Summary– This summary of the Emerging Examples brief highlights building blocks for transforming pediatric care.
- Pediatric Value-Based Care Models: Emerging Examples– This brief highlights states and communities pursuing integrated, value-based pediatric models.
- Pediatric Value-Based Care Models: Recommendations– This brief shares accelerators, barriers, and recommendations to promoting value-based care for children.
Using Pay for Success Financing in Medicaid – Learn about Washington’s exploration of Pay for Success Financing.
Population Health Integrators– How do hospitals & health systems catalyze multi-sector efforts to improve population health Includes:
- Project Timeline and Content Dashboard – Provides an at-a-glance timeline and dashboard for content developed within this project.
- The Engine of Population Health Networks: Understanding & Using Integrative Activities – A collection of resources from the Integrator Learning Lab- videos, tools for action, issue briefs.
- The Engine of Population Health Networks: Understanding & Using Integrative Activities – A white paper offering insights and recommendations.
- Essential Integrative Activities within Cross-Sector Population Health Networks: An Organizing Framework – A detailed framework of essential integrative activities for population health networks.
- “Which” and “How”: Tools for Population Health Integrators – Toolkits for networks; Determine which integrative activities to focus on & how to move into action.
- Toolkit #1: Selecting the Focus (“Which”) – Tools to help networks prioritize which integrative activities to focus on
- Toolkit #2: Putting Ideas into Action (“How”) – Tools to put selected integrative activities into action in the real world
- Network Achievements – Real-world inspiration: Goals and achievements of networks in Nemours 2020 Integrator Learning Lab.
- Voices from the Field – Advice on Being a Strong Network Partner
- Voices from the Field – Tools & Strategies to Accelerate Networks
- Voices from the Field – Strategies for Putting Health Equity into Action
- Voices from the Field – The Benefits of Creating a Culture Learning in Your Network
- “Take 2 Series” – 2 reflections and 2 pieces of advice from leaders making population health networks work.
- Part One, “Forming Integrative Networks” – our partners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Paterson, New Jersey offer reflections on successful early stage integrator networks.
- Part Two, “Re-Invigorating Integrative Networks” – our partners in Washington, D.C. and Flathead County, Montana offer reflections on what it takes to steer an existing network in a new direction.
- Part Three, “Planning for Network Sustainability” – our partners from Ventura, California and Sarasota, Florida reflect on what it takes to plan integrator networks with long-term sustainability in view.
- Part Four, “Deepening Community Engagement” – our partners from Guilford County, North Carolina and Bridgeport, Connecticut reflect on strategies for deepening the engagement of community residents, especially those with the most direct experience of the health challenge a network was formed to address?
- The Role of Health Care in Multi-Sector Networks for Population Health: Notes from the Field– Early lessons, examples, and recommendations gleaned from interviews with 40 field leaders.
- 2020 Integrator Learning Lab– Info on networks, faculty, content, and more. Includes:
- Network Introductions (slides)- Introductory slides, prepared by each network
- Network Overviews (text)- Narrative summaries of networks
- Faculty Bios– Biographies for Nemours 2020 Integrator Learning Lab
- Integrators & Upstream Population Health– Spotlights the functions & value of integrators in community efforts to improve health.
- Integrator Project Summary– A two-page summary of the Population Health Integrators project.
- In the Media – Recent media coverage related to this work.
Data Sharing Across Child-Serving Sectors – A policy brief on cross-sector data sharing.
Collaboration between Medicaid and Early Care and Education – A brief and toolkit sharing lessons learned from cross-sector collaboration. Includes:
- Collaboration Among Medicaid and Early Care and Education Policy Makers – Lessons learned and strategies to foster collaboration between the health care and ECE sector.
- Maryland Toolkit for Medicaid & Early Care and Education Collaboration – Sample documents from Maryland cross-sector TA project that could be used as templates.
Medicaid & Financing Upstream Prevention– Approaches Medicaid, health plans, and stakeholders can use to fund upstream prevention. Includes:
- Executive Summary– Approaches Medicaid, health plans, and stakeholders can use to finance upstream prevention
- Making the Case for Prevention– The case for why Washington’s ACHs should pursue chronic disease prevention
- Implementing Social Determinants of Health Interventions in Medicaid Managed Care-Addressing social determinants of health may be paid for within Medicaid managed care
- Medicaid and Head Start: Opportunities to Collaborate and Pay for Upstream Prevention– Lessons from connecting a MCO with Head Start to link families to preventive services
- Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream– Partnership between Medicaid and Head Start to deliver an obesity prevention initiative
- Community Care Coordination Systems: Connecting Patients to Community Services– Explains Community Care Coordination Systems and critical success features
- Integrating Community Health Workers into State and Local Chronic Disease Prevention Efforts– Roles community health workers can play in mitigating the impact of chronic conditions
- Webinar: Innovative Medicaid Payment Strategies for Financing Upstream Prevention– This is a recording of a July 17, 2018 webinar on the Medicaid Payment Strategies for Upstream Prevention
Building the Business Case for Investment in Childhood Obesity Prevention– A tool to simulate costs, savings, and health outcomes of childhood obesity prevention. Includes:
- Prevention Business Case Financial Simulation Tool– Download via Dropbox, disregard message that file is password protected.
- Financial Simulation Tool User Guide– The Financial Simulation User Guide offers instructions on using the tool.
- Customizable Infographic– Edit slide to create a custom infographic for your Financial Simulation results.
Defining an Accountable Community for Health for Children and Families– MHCU leaders make the case for an ACH for Children & Families
Pathways Through Medicaid to Prevention– A toolkit illustrating a range of Medicaid and CHIP options to fund upstream prevention. Includes:
- A Roadmap of Medicaid Prevention Pathways Toolkit– How Medicaid can maximize existing federal authority to deliver preventive services. Includes:
- A Roadmap of Medicaid Prevention Pathways– Roadmap illustrates Medicaid and CHIP authority to deliver preventive health services
- Roadmap Appendix A: Medicaid Authorities for Prevention– Reference on pathways to authorization of Medicaid reimbursement for preventive services
- Roadmap Appendix B: State Planning Document– Tool for states to prioritize goals for planning and implementing prevention strategies
- Roadmap Appendix C: Roadmap of Medicaid Prevention Pathways– Summary of prevention activities along the continuum of the Roadmap’s five main categories
- Roadmap Summary– The Roadmap Summary provides an at-a-glance introduction to the Roadmap
- Case Studies– Case studies offer a deeper dive to explore how decisions are made and implemented. Includes:
- Case Study: Nationwide Children’s Hospital– An Accountable Care Organization Going Upstream to Address Population Health
- Case Study: Oregon– Medicaid and Public Health Collaboration in Oregon
- Case Study: Washington State– Improving Health Through Health System Transformation in Washington State
- White Paper– White Paper expands upon the learnings from the Roadmap. Includes:
- White Paper: Realizing the Promise of Prevention and Population Health– The White Paper expands upon the learnings from the Roadmap
- White Paper Appendix A: Ad Hoc Work Group– List of experts who provided input on the Pathways through Medicaid to Prevention project
- White Paper Appendix B: August 2016 Meeting Participants– List of leaders who attended the Nemours August 2016 meeting in Washington, DC
- White Paper Appendix C: Managed Care Delivery System– Incentives and implications for population health
- White Paper Appendix D: Medicaid Authorities for Prevention– Reference document on pathways to authorization of Medicaid reimbursement
- White Paper Appendix E: State Planning Document– Tool for states to prioritize goals for planning and implementing prevention strategies
- Webinar Recording: Medicaid’s Role in Prevention, Population Health, and Building a Culture of Health at the State Level– This is a recording of a March 20, 2017 webinar on the Roadmap materials.
Early Childhood & Medicaid– Intro to Medicaid & CHIP and strategies for partnership for the early childhood sector
Example in Action: Payment & Financing– Check out these real-world examples! Includes:
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; East Harlem, NY– Building Bridges, Building Knowledge, Building Health Coalition
- The Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Cincinnati, OH– Working to create better childhoods by building safe & nurturing environments for our kids
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, WI– Partnering with schools & communities to improve health outcomes for children
Health Care & Community Partnerships
Developing & Scaling a Social Needs Screening and Referral Process within Pediatric Health System – This combined case study and guidance resource shares insights from Nemours Children’s Health.
Children’s Health & Wellness Fund – (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Lived Experience: The Practice of Engagement in Policy – This brief highlights the value of involving those with lived experience in policy and systems change.
Nemours Children’s Project HOPE– Harnessing Opportunity for Positive, Equitable Early Childhood Development (HOPE) Project. Includes:
- Overview of Nemours Children’s Project HOPE– A brief overview of Project HOPE and its implementation in Nemours Children’s partner states
- Project HOPE State Profiles– Highlights of the successes of each Project HOPE state
- Theory of Change – This tool helps to visually organize the focal areas and intended outcomes of systems change initiatives.
- Webinar (Selecting Indicators for Early Childhood Systems Change) – View webinar on a new data resource for state and community leaders working to advance systems change
- Selecting Indicators for Early Childhood Systems Change Projects– This guide helps to identify and track data indicators to inform and advance systems change.
- Five Lessons Learned from Project HOPE– Lessons learned throughout the planning and implementation stages of HOPE.
- Seeing Early Ripple Effects in States and Communities– HOPE events and activities that may potentially have impact outside of the main project
- Increasing Developmental Screening and Promoting Social Emotional Development in Florida
- Project HOPE Consortium Shared Geography: New Jersey
- Addressing Disproportionate Infant Mortality in Oklahoma
- Scaling a Promising Model Statewide to Address Inequities in Washington State
Community Care Coordination Systems: Technology Supports– Brief explores technology emerging to “close the loop” between clinical & community services.
Population Health Integrators- (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Navigating the Health Care System– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Navigating the Health Care System, above)
MHCU’s Policy Learning Labs: Food Insecurity; Root Causes of Asthma– Accelerating adoption of organizational and local policies for upstream health promotion. Includes:
- Overview and Lessons Learned– Overview of MHCU’s Policy Learning Labs and Lessons Learned- of interest to TA providers & convener
- Compendium of Research and Technical Assistance Memos 2017– A goldmine! Detailed “how-to” materials provided to 2017 PLL teams. Why reinvent the wheel?
- Compendium of Research and Technical Assistance Memos 2018– The goldmine…continued. Detailed “how-to” materials provided to 2018 PLL teams. Why reinvent the wheel?
- Resource Directory– A curated, sortable collection of resources shared among teams and by PLL leadership
- Policy Process Playbook– New to policy? Our playbook guides you through each step of the policy development process.
- Social Media Best Practices– Practical tips and tricks for using and evaluating email and social media- designed for “non-experts”.
- Webinar Recording & Materials (9.12.18)– Topic: Identifying & Addressing Food Insecurity in Healthcare Settings
- Webinar Recording & Materials (11.12.18)– Topic: Parkland Center for Innovation Presentation
Defining an Accountable Community for Health for Children and Families– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Roadmap For Action: Advancing the Adoption of Telehealth– Guide to help promote the adoption of effective telehealth implementation strategies.
Moving Health Care Upstream– Profiles of the innovative population health initiatives of three children’s hospitals
Building Community Resilience Collaborative– BCR works to increase cross-sector collaboration to address trauma and toxic stress
Examples in Action: Partnerships– Check out these real-world examples! Includes:
- Immigrant Child Health Toolkit; Washington, DC metropolitan region – A model resource- Guidelines for anyone providing care or services to immigrant families
- Addressing Food Insecurity at Los Angeles County Clinics; Los Angeles, California – Using data to advance organizational policies to screen for food insecurity
- DC Health Matters – Progress through partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes in Washington, DC
- Healthy Food Access: Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration– Partnering to create access to healthy foods for the most under-served population
- Nemours Children’s Student Health Collaboration– An innovative approach to sharing student health records with school nurses
- Comer Children’s Hospital; Chicago, IL– Feed1st In-House Food Pantry
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Columbus, OH– Healthy Neighborhood, Healthy Families is a place-based revitalization collaborative.
- Ravenswood MHCU Collaborative; East Palo Alto, CA– Our work focuses on closing the achievement gap by focusing on the early years.
- Seattle Children’s Hospital; Seattle, WA– Seattle Children’s is refocusing on children’s health by deepening community partnerships.
Leading Change
Developing & Scaling a Social Needs Screening and Referral Process within Pediatric Health System – This combined case study and guidance resource shares insights from Nemours Children’s Health.
Children’s Health & Wellness Fund – (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Lived Experience: The Practice of Engagement in Policy – (DUPLICATE – see detail under Healthcare & Community Partnerships, above).
Nemours Children’s Project HOPE- (DUPLICATE – see detail under Healthcare & Community Partnerships, above.)
Population Health Integrators– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above.)
Policy Leadership for Health Care Transformation– How can health systems use policy to sustain their work addressing social determinants? Includes:
- Executive Summary- Policy Leadership for Health Care Transformation– A two-page executive summary of the findings of this year-long initiative.
- Full Paper- Policy Leadership for Health Care Transformation– Read on for the full length Policy Leadership for Health Care Transformation paper.
- Organizational Self-Assessment– View the organizational self-assessment used, in part, to inform our work.
- AGHL Logic Model– View logic model for the Alignment of Government & Leadership in Healthcare.
Transformational Leadership– (DUPLICATE – see detail under Healthcare & Community Partnerships, above.)
Roadmap For Action: Advancing the Adoption of Telehealth– Guide to help promote the adoption of effective telehealth implementation strategies
Examples in Action: Leading Change – Check out these real-world examples! Includes:
- Immigrant Child Health Toolkit; Washington, DC metropolitan region – A model resource- Guidelines for anyone providing care or services to immigrant families
- Healthy Food Access: Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration– Partnering to create access to healthy foods for the most under-served population
- Boston Children’s Community Asthma Partnership; Boston, MA – Building systems in community health centers to support patients and families
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, WI– Partnering with schools & communities to improve health outcomes for children
- Salud Para la Gente; Watsonville, CA – Integrated community care for Central California agriculture workers
- The Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Cincinnati, OH– Working to create better childhoods by building safe & nurturing environments for our kids
Policy Strategies
Developing & Scaling a Social Needs Screening and Referral Process within Pediatric Health System – This combined case study and guidance resource shares insights from Nemours Children’s Health.
Children’s Health & Wellness Fund – (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Health Affairs Blog: Caring for Kids in the Covid-19 Era– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Pediatric Value-Based Care Models– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Population Health Integrators– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Policy Leadership for Health Care Transformation– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Leading Change, above)
MHCU’s Policy Learning Labs: Food Insecurity; Root Causes of Asthma– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Health Care & Community Partnerships, above)
Medicaid & Financing Upstream Prevention– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Pathways through Medicaid to Prevention– DUPLICATE- see detail under Financing & Payment Models, above)
Moving Health Care Upstream– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Health Care & Community Partnerships, above)
Transformational Leadership– (DUPLICATE- see detail under Leading Change, above)
Examples in Action: Policy Strategies – Check out these real-world examples! Includes:
- DC Health Matters – Progress through partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes in Washington, DC
- Increasing Developmental Screening and Promoting Social Emotional Development in Florida
- Addressing Food Insecurity at Los Angeles County Clinics; Los Angeles, California– Using data to advance organizational policies to screen for food insecurity
- Addressing Disproportionate Infant Mortality in Oklahoma
- Healthy Food Access: Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration– Partnering to create access to healthy foods for the most under served population
- Project HOPE Consortium Shared Geography: New Jersey
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Central Harlem, NY– Building Bridges, Building Knowledge, Building Health Coalition
- Scaling a Promising Model Statewide to Address Inequities in Washington State
- The Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Cincinnati, OH– Working to create better childhoods by building safe & nurturing environments for our kids
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, WI– Partnering with schools & communities to improve health outcomes for children
- Nemours National Office of Policy & Prevention– An example of how health systems can advance upstream health by strategic organizational structure
