Child and Teen Checkups (C&TC)
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Child and Teen Checkups
The child and teen well-child checkups are a vital opportunity for healthcare providers to monitor a young patient's growth, development, and overall health. These visits offer a chance for providers to: engage with families, answer questions, and provide guidance on lifestyle choices. This helps children and youth thrive and set a strong foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing.
Contacts:
To view current trainings or to request a training, please refer to the Training descriptions and registration webpage.
Subscribe to the quarterly C&TC Newsletter.
To reach MDH, email health.childreencheckups@state.mn.us
Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) Provider Manual, C&TC Section. MHCP offers free resources and training for providers/facilities who bill for C&TC.
To reach DHS, email dhs.childteencheckups@state.mn.us
Information for providers
The C&TC Schedule of Age-Related Screening Standards, also known as the Periodicity Schedule, summarizes C&TC screening component requirements and recommendations by age. The required components must be completed, or screening exceptions documented, in order to bill for the enhanced C&TC bundled rate.
C&TC Visit Documentation Forms are age-specific forms which include appropriate C&TC screening components that include appropriate C&TC screening components.
The C&TC fact sheets provide component-specific information on what is required or recommended, which staff may provide the service, procedure-specific guidance, how it must be documented, and resources for referral and follow-up.
Every county, three tribes, and some Integrated Healt Partnerships (IHP) have C&TC Coordinators who provide local support. Coordinators provide: Minnesota C&TC County/Tribe Coordinator List or contact DHS for IHP contacts at dhs.childteencheckups@state.mn.us.
- Outreach to families to go to their clinic for C&TC visits
- Assistance to families to access appointments
- Outreach and training for local clinics and providers
Find our local Coordinator on the Minnesota C&TC County/Tribe Coordinator List or contact DHS for IHP contacts at dhs.childteencheckups@state.mn.us.
Links to related clinical and referral resources
- C&TC Developmental and Social -Emotional Screening Recommendations in the clinic setting
- Instruments at a glance for C&TC settings (PDF)
- Help Me Grow MN (www.HelpMeGrowMN.org)
- Help Me Connect (0-8 years old)
- Early childhood mental health system of care: Map and listing of early childhood mental health services in Minnesota
- Follow Along Program administered by local public health, can help track a child's development
- Perinatal Mental Health - Information for Health Professionals, including Maternal Well-being Plan in different languages.
- Refer all children ages birth to five years to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program
- WIC and Health Care Providers
Clinics are not required to use any particular screening tool to assess for social determinants of health.
Examples of questionnaires or approaches to consider include:
- American Academy of Family Practice - Everyone Project: Social Needs Screening Tool
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Accountable Health Communities Screening Tool (PDF)
- Hunger Vital Sign
- MDH Refugee Health Care Provider Resources
- Minnesota Statutes: Agency responsibilities for parents and children in placement
- Foster Care – American Academy of Pediatrics
- Primary Care Tools to Help Care for Children in Foster Care – American Academy of Pediatrics
- Foster Care Health Care Standards – American Academy of Pediatrics
- Adolescent Sexual Health Guidance