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To 3 Rs, add HS – Healthy Start

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Thursday, August 4, 2011   

FARMINGTON, Conn. - As summer wanes and thoughts of starting kindergarten loom larger for parents of young children, one Connecticut organization is helping communities identify health-related school readiness.

Judith Meyers, president and chief executive officer of the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, says the focus is usually on academics.

"So often when we talk about school readiness, we're talking about cognitive skills - you know, literacy, reading and writing, that kind of thing - and our concern is that we don't pay enough attention to the fact that children need to be healthy to be able to learn."

Her organization has a toolkit to help communities find and take advantage of resources to ensure a healthy start for all children.

The issues can be physical, Meyers says, including vision and hearing, and also social or emotional.

"What this is, is getting communities to look at how do they make sure they have all the services in place in their community - or access to those services - to make sure that all children are getting the child-health services they need from birth."

She says the audience is parents, health providers, and school and municipal government officials.

"Our work is less about the individual child and more looking at the systems in place - for instance, making sure that all children have access to what we call a medical home, where they get consistent, community-based health care, child health care."

Partnering with the Discovery Initiative of the Hamden-based Graustein Memorial Fund, this work reaches close to 50 towns around Connecticut and serves children from birth through age 8.


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