During this episode we’ll be talking about the importance of family advisor engagement and identifying roles within a practice setting with Melissa Winger CPXP, CPHQ. She wears many hats as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Addressing Social Health and Early Childhood Wellness (ASHEW) Technical Assistance Project Advisory and Family Partnership Executive committees, the Emergency Medical Services for Children state and national family representative, Patient Centered Medical home Consumer site evaluator, and consumer Merit reviewer for Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She’s a wonderful Mom to an amazing young man with complex medical conditions from a rare chromosome disorder.

Dr. Gretchen Pianka is pioneering how primary care providers can use their unique relationship with families to foster resilience in their patients and the families they care for. She’s bringing to clinical practice the cutting-edge research showing the powerful protective effect Positive Childhood Experiences can have in offsetting the effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

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During this episode we will be talking about family centered counseling techniques with expert Dr. Sara Del Campo de Gonzalez who is a pediatrician at the Young Children’s Health Center, University of New Mexico Health Systems. Her special interests include trauma-informed care, excessive childhood stress activation, resilience and protective factors, early childhood development and immigration.

Dr. Nerissa Bauer discusses protective factors and resiliency with leading expert, Dr. Robert Sege who is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs the new Center for Community-engaged Medicine. He has served on national committees for the American Academy of Pediatrics and has been lead author on several important AAP policies. His extensive speaking and publication list include contributions to the prevention and treatment of child maltreatment and youth violence.

The pandemic is likely to disrupt health systems, including suspending vaccination campaigns; straining child protection systems and social services; and exacerbating existing inequalities. In this episode we discuss the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to social determinants of health, health equity and systems in an evolving landscape.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, understanding the degree to which food insecurity affects the health of children or other household members is key both to making the case for its elimination and also to the design of effective social programs. In this episode we discuss different avenues to explore to address social determinants of health and how one pediatrician created a business that has left a lasting impact by feeding hungry families and lessons learned along the way.

The virus that causes COVID-19 has forever affected our new reality. Even though children who contract COVID-19 appear to have less severe symptoms and lower mortality rates than other age groups, the impact on children is likely to be devastating. How can we best keep children and families in mind as we adjust as a society to this new reality? In this episode we discuss the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to social determinants of health, health equity and access to healthcare services.

Maternal depression is an adverse childhood experience and can have a lasting impact on a child’s health and well-being if left untreated. When parents are depressed it can negatively impact a child’s development, impede their ability to learn, and have effects that can last into adulthood. In this episode, we discuss postpartum checkups as part of well-child visits, and maternal depression screenings as they’re are considered best practice for pediatricians.

It's a pediatric providers responsibility to build a therapeutic relationship to make patients feel safe to discuss concerns or problems. In this episode we hope to share strategies and success stories to increase awareness and assist you and your practice in developing and managing therapeutic relationships as they pertain to discussing social determinants of health with families.