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Bradshaw Institute FY19 highlights

The Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy, part of Prisma Health Children’s Hospital–Upstate, works to create healthy and safe communities, increase access to care for those experiencing vulnerabilities, provide evidence-based strategies to improve health literacy, and ultimately become a best practice leader.

Our vision is to create optimal health for the children and families we serve. This past year has been a testament to that vision, as you can see from the highlights below in four focus areas.

Create healthier, safer communities. Our injury and abuse prevention teams provide child protection strategies and education to the community, parents, caregivers, first responders, health care providers, teachers, and students.

FY19 highlights: • 1,000 car seat safety inspections

• 3,800 users of Life Jacket Loaner board program

• 78 portable cribs provided

• 2,000 bicycle helmets fitted

• 204 inpatient safe sleep consultations

• 1,731 safety patrols trained

• 30 local, regional and statewide trainings

Enhance health literacy. Increased health literacy leads to better preventive care, outcomes and overall health. Our team works to increase the health literacy of children and families through high-quality health promotion programs focused on healthy child development, fitness, nutrition and lifelong well-being.

FY19 highlights: • 400+ families received monthly recipe kits.

• 96% of parents reported adjusting meals to be healthier at least once a week.

• 86 developmental milestones trainings took place.

• 2,260 students participated in the Bicycle Skills Clinic; 62% who could not ride a bike before the program learned how to ride by the end.

• 1,658 children accessed developmental-behavioral health screenings and services.

• 53% of students reported that health promotion messages improved the choices they made outside of school.

Increase access to care. With our valued community partners, we continue to increase access to health care for children and families through our community population health programming. These services and partnerships make it easier for families to access both the medical care and nonmedical community supports they need to thrive.

FY19 highlights: • 786 visits to school-based health centers in the school year

• 290 Tdap vaccines administered to students

• 3,292 referrals to community-based programs through Help Me Grow SC

• 276 pediatric patients referred to Medical-Legal Partnership (NOTE: This number does not include the Medical-Legal Partnership in the Midlands)

• 2,501 patient referrals triaged through Pediatric Support Services

• 176 parents of substance-exposed infants provided education and wrap-around services

Become a best practice leader. Research shows that as much as 90% of child health outcomes are due to factors outside clinical care. Through evaluation and measurement, we constantly assess our impact and improve our programming and implementation strategies. We also believe community partnerships and collaboration are key to creating optimal health.

FY19 highlights: • 41 state, regional and national conference presentations and two publications

• 26 undergraduate, graduate and medical school internship experiences

• 32 pediatric residents trained in community health and advocacy

• Greenville County Care Coordination Collaborative (led by Bradshaw Institute) launched Childhood Homelessness Project

• Six medically supervised camps supported for children and families with chronic illness

• Seven Prisma Health ambulatory pediatric practices implemented projects to promote AAP recommended best practices in oral health, developmental screening, postnatal depression screening, vaccine compliance and early literacy