Partners
Some families need extra support navigating different services to find and access quality child development resources. When it comes to helping families, we can work together to coordinate and strengthen local services and programs.
Since we began, Help Me Grow (HMG) LA has been working with partners in the community to:
L.A. Care and their plan partners providing health care coverage to over half of all children ages 0-5 countywide. The HMG LA partnership (2021-2024) with L.A. Care Health Plan contributes to HMG LA’s health provider outreach efforts. This partnership supported the integration of developmental screening and referral workflows with participating pediatric practices. It also increased awareness of, and education on, the importance of developmental screenings and monitoring to health providers, clinics, community organizations and families. The partnership used L.A. Care’s network of providers, infrastructure and expertise, as well as its Community Resources Centers to reach providers, families and children.
The HMG LA Pathways (cohort 1: 2020-2023; cohort 2: 2022-2025) is a three-year project per community that brings together agencies and programs that provide early identification and intervention services for developmental delays. The goal is to improve existing referral pathways through technology, infrastructure and practice change to make sure all children get the services they need when they need it. Agencies that are part of Pathways have created a collaborative within their community. The collaboratives plan, test, and refine strategies so that the referral pathways in a community are more coordinated, integrated and multidirectional with the goal of making it easier for families to find and access the support they need. The communities overlap L.A. County’s seven Regional Center boundaries to ensure countywide reach given the important role Regional Centers play in delivering the Early Start program to infants and toddlers. The Pathways collaborative lead agencies include:
