IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES
Join us in fostering emotional health in clinical settings. The resources on this page will prepare you with a roadmap toward addressing the emotional health of children with chronic conditions and their families.
These tools and resources were made with you in mind. Look for the “helpful for” tags to identify which resources may be relevant to you as a patient, parent, clinician, training program director, or trainee.
The Key Driver Diagram, Readiness Checklist, and Roadmap Pathway are designed to be used together for individuals to visualize, assess, and plan to improve the emotional health of children and adolescents with chronic conditions and their families.
Key Driver Diagram
This resource is a visual depiction of The Roadmap Project’s theory of change for improving the emotional health of children and adolescents with chronic conditions and their families. The key drivers and change strategies outlined in this document align with the Five-Step Plan and Readiness Checklist.
What’s a Key Driver Diagram? It provides a graphic framework representing of the proposed aim, key factors (“drivers”) and associated change strategies that are necessary for achieving an improvement aim, and potential change strategies.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, trainees, patients and families
Roadmap Pathway
This simple blueprint aligns with the Key Driver Diagram and Readiness Checklist and highlights the steps in planning and conducting your improvement efforts. It is based on the experience of clinical teams participating in The Roadmap Project.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees, patients and families
Readiness Checklist
This checklist is designed to help clinical teams assess their readiness to address emotional health during routine care for patients with chronic conditions and their families. Developed and tested with clinicians, the results of the self-assessment will guide where to begin making changes in your practice.
Helpful for: Clinicians, training program directors, and trainees, patients and families
Developing a Resource List & Choosing a Therapist
Patients and parents working with The Roadmap Project have repeatedly stressed you don’t have to be a mental health professional to make a difference. Yet, sometimes families will need more support than a physician or subspecialty team can provide. These tools were designed in collaboration with patients, parents, and clinicians to help you create (or expand) a resource list and identify a therapist.
Helpful for: Everyone
Billing Strategies
Ensuring the emotional health of children is essential to optimizing wellbeing and health outcomes. Routinely using the billing strategies for outpatient care described in this document can be an important step to obtaining payment and supporting the important role that physicians play in addressing and supporting the emotional health of children with chronic conditions and their families.
Helpful for: Clinicians (in outpatient practice)
MOC Part 4 Activity
The MOC Part 4 Activity "A Roadmap for Supporting Emotional Health for Children with Chronic Conditions and their Families: A Quality Improvement Project Template (QIPT)," based on The Roadmap Project, provides 25 MOC Part 4 credits when successfully completed.
Helpful for: Physicians
This Change Package provides practical tools to support emotional and mental health care. The strategies described in the Roadmap Change Package should be seen as a ‘toolkit’ for clinical teams working to improve care for patients and families living with chronic pediatric conditions. We expect that this will be a living document, expanding and improving as new resources and strategies are added, so stay tuned for updates as they arise.