The Vendor is required to provide medical home capacity building is a population health strategy used by the health division to ensure that providers serving children and youth with special healthcare needs receive appropriate education and training for this specific group.  
- Provide outreach, training, and technical assistance to pediatric primary care providers to implement developmental screenings and facilitate referrals to community resources.  
- Medical home model components include providing care that is:
• Accessible: physically and geographically accessible, practice hours, and clinic accepts all insurance types.
• Compassionate: genuine concern for the well-being of a child and family.
• Family-centered: each family is unique, and decisions are made in partnership with the family.
• Comprehensive and coordinated: care is communicated across all providers serving the client and family.
• Culturally and linguistically responsive: culture, language, beliefs, traditions are valued, respected, and incorporated into services provided to families.
• Provide virtual and in person outreach, training, and technical assistance to pediatric primary care providers to implement developmental screenings and facilitate referrals to community resources, which may include help me grow (HMG), family resource navigators, and enhanced care management.
• Must support pediatric provider sites in implementing, maintaining, or improving universal screenings.  
• Must support pediatric provider sites in developing appropriate referral protocols for children and youth who screen for concerns and need community resources.  
• Must support pediatric provider sites in developing appropriate referral protocols for children and youth who screen for concerns and need community resources.  
• Provide and coordinate training (including agendas, food, handouts, etc.) and develop protocols to ensure training is evaluated for effectiveness and updated regularly.  
• Must set screening and intervention goals with each participating primary care practice, including but not limited to adding screening tools or intervals, screening more children at current intervals, and/or referring children to community resources.  
• Must track the progress of providers implementing developmental screenings, referring appropriate resources, discussing challenges, and identifying solutions to address barriers to implementation.
• Must create and implement a pediatric outreach plan to recruit pediatric primary care providers and develop site-specific strategies to increase screenings for early identification of developmental and behavioral health concerns and support families and children with referrals to appropriate services.  
• Must recruit pediatric champions at each participating pediatric primary care site who can be subject matter experts and influence the implementation of current and potential screening efforts.
• Must develop partnerships with pediatric organizations, sites, or practice groups serving medical clients that might benefit from a specialized approach to early identification strategies for children and youth.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Bidders Conference (Non-Mandatory) Date: May 20, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 21, 2025