By: Jacquelyn M. Rose, MPH This is the first in a series of blogs describing Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health’s journey to cultivate and nurture a culture of social innovation. Over the course of the last fiscal year, a small, multi-disciplinary team from Connecticut Children’s […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH I recently read an alarming statistic in a pediatric news article: over 90 percent of parents surveyed purchase at least one meal per week for their children in a fast food establishment. Admittedly, fast food is a low cost, convenient and readily available […]
By: Allison Matthews-Wilson, LCSW Here at Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health, and at Connecticut Children’s at large, there’s a lot of talk about innovation. Where to find it, how to foster it, and how to fund it. I’m proud to say, in the space I work, […]
By: Paul H. Dworkin, MD and Erin Cornell, MPH In April of 2017, we published an Advancing Kids blog entitled, “An Impressive Reminder That All Measures Matter”. In that blog, we cited a recently published article that we believed validated our approach to measuring the impact of our […]
By: Erin Cornell, MPH Before joining the Help Me Grow National Center team, I worked with two other programs at Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health (the Office). Both programs focused on increasing capacity to maximize efficiencies in child-serving systems; in both, I was fortunate to draw […]
By: Marcus Smith Used by physicians in a clinical setting, prescriptions help patients access the pharmaceuticals they need to make them feel better. However, in the ongoing conversation regarding children’s health and development, an important concept is often overlooked. That is the evidence-based concept that non-clinical interventions can […]
By: Paul H. Dworkin, MD Several months ago, I had the opportunity to address a Hartford convening of the New England Pediatric Program Directors hosted by our own UCONN Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Ed Zalneraitis, our esteemed program director, requested that I set the stage for colleague Dr. […]
By: Garry Lapidus, PA-C, MPH Every time a new administration takes office, it represents an opportunity for advocates to influence future public policy priorities with regards to critical areas of importance in our state. After voters elected Ned Lamont to serve as our state’s next governor, I was honored […]
