Child Health and Disability Prevention Program

County of Ventura

CHILD HEALTH AND DISABILITY PREVENTION PROGRAM

CHDP Provider Manual and Bulletins

Child Health and Disability Prevention Publications

Health Assessment Guidelines (HAG)and Provider Information Notices (PIN)s

The Local CHDP Program faxesHealth Assessment Guidelines (HAG )and Provider Information Notices (PIN) as they are released by the DHCA CHDP Program. Please distribute to appropriate staff and retain in a Health Assessment Guidelines notebook.

New Health Assessment Providers– Please contact your local CHDP Program PHN at
(805) 981-5291to arrange an informative site visit for new staff that plan to provide CHDP Health Assessments services. At the visit, the Health Assessment Agreement will be signed by the HCP. CHDP Protocols, Guideline and Provider Resources will be reviewed.

Inservices and Educational Materials

1)Visions Screening-Please look out for upcoming Vision Screening Certification Workshop that is held every Fall. Please send all new staff that will be doing the screening. Returning staff should attend every 4 years or as needed.

2)Audiometric Training -Please look out for Audiometric Screening Certification workshop that is held every Spring. Please send all new staff that will be doing the screening. Returning staff should attend every 4 years or as needed.

3) Childhood ObesityContact CHDP PHN for information on inservices and health education including: Growth Assessment modules and tools including Assessing Child Growth Using Body Mass Index (BMI) and How to Accurately Weight and Measure Children

• Body Mass Index (BMI) Training
• How to Accurately Weigh and Measure Children for the CHDP Well Child Exam
• Posters
• InfantLength Poster
• Infant Weight Poster
• Child Height Poster
• ChildWeight Poster
• Counseling the Overweight Child
• Posters
• Little Changes, Big Rewards Poster (English)
• Little Changes, Big Rewards Poster (Spanish)

• Glucose and Cholesterol Screening for Pediatric Obesity

4)Nutritional and anticipatory guidedance Materials:

• Growing Up Health Pamphlets
• Keep Moms & Babies Healthy shopping check lists for Anemia prevention Eng & Span

5) Monthly Noon Time Inservices– Please look out for faxed announcements of topics to be discussed.

6) Lead PoisoningPrevention and finger stick Training – Contact Bridget Beeman at 805-981-5214 for Poisoning inservice and Capillary Blood Finger Stick training; provider and patient education materials

7) Dental Training: Oral Health Assessment and Referral and fluoride varnish - Please contact your AnnaMarie Aguilar, Oral Health Program Coordinator at CHDP Program at (805) 981-6602 to arrange fluoride varnish training.

8) Physician’s roles in preventing dental caries in preschool children

Ventura County Public Health Children’s Medical Services

2240 East Gonzales Road, Oxnard, CA 93036
 Child Health and Disability Prevention Program/ CHDP  Suite 270
Phone - (805) 981-5291 Fax – (805) 658-4505

1/17/2013