Boston Children’s Hospital launched an innovative pilot program focused on using group pediatric visits for 2 ½ year old children to provide parents with enhanced guidance around supporting children’s social emotional development.

Measuring reliability enables us to understand the effectiveness of our health systems and initiatives  and discover where improvements are needed. Not sure where to start? We're sharing an introduction to measuring and increasing reliability in your projects and initiatives.

From cognitive and social emotional development to education and accomplishments, children with involved fathers achieve better health outcomes. Yet despite fathers’ positive impact on maternal and child health, many of the systems intended to serve women and children were not designed with fathers in mind. That’s why we’re sharing strategies to increasing father involvement in early childhood programs.

Each month, we’re shining a spotlight on a NICHQ employee, asking them to share their memories, advice, and goals. Project Manager Barbara Lambiaso shares her commitment to various NICHQ projects, including an initiative that serves children and adults with sickle cell disease.

Our nation is hurting. Many are afraid, angry, anxious, and frustrated as we witness institutional racism and social injustice, once again, ravaging communities of color. NICHQ CEO Scott D. Berns calls for meaningful change to end to systemic racism and injustice in our country.

Committed to championing a too-often forgotten population, Indianapolis Healthy Start partnered with the state’s women’s prison system to ensure that moms and babies could receive all recommended services and supports, starting with prenatal care and continuing for two years after birth.