Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family News

Quarterly E-News: August 2019

Changing the Care Paradigm: Focusing on Resilient Family Development
The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family is working with a local firm to design the Pediatric Practice of the Future model, which will ensure all children are healthy and ready to learn by age five.
Center Publishes Second Installment of Bi-Annual Report
The latest report highlights progress around key initiatives, including the creation of the Pediatric Practice of the Future and evaluation of clinical programs.
News and Upcoming Events
Check out the latest happenings at the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family!

Grant from The Boston Foundation Facilitates Innovative Partnership
A new partnership between The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, the Vital Village Network and Economic Mobility Pathways will focus on addressing children’s needs and achieving optimal health.
18 Recommendations for Implementing Trauma-Informed Approaches in Pediatrics
The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family creates list of trauma-informed approaches to care to help children who have experienced traumatic events.
Moving Forward the Pediatric Practice of the Future: What We’re Learning from Families
New partnership with Agncy is helping the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family better understand what needs to be done systematically to build the Pediatric Practice of the Future.

EASE Clinic Forging New Relationships with Schools and Families
The Center’s focus on partnerships with school systems in the community is allowing pediatricians to become stronger champions of patients’ educational plans.
Families Visiting BMC from Across the State to Receive Care: Center Maps Pediatric Patient Panel
The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family has begun mapping its pediatric primary care families by zip code in order to better understand the families it serves.
Pediatric Family Advisory Board is Active in Community Events
Boston Medical Center’s Pediatric Family Advisory Board working collaboratively with Pediatrics, providing input about care, and is engaging families across the hospital and in the community.
Moving Forward the Pediatric Practice of the Future: Using Human Centered Design to Elevate the Voices of Families
The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family and the Department of Pediatrics are leading efforts to build the Pediatric Practice of the Future through fundamental systems change—creating and scaling novel health delivery approaches, and working with families, inter-disciplinary colleagues, communities and other family-serving sectors.