Services
Helping Young Children Thrive
A network of community resources works like a power grid. When the grid functions well, families can plug in to an organized flow of resources and easily access the ones they need. Help Me Grow strengthens the grid by supporting a current directory of available services and connecting service providers to each other to create an interconnected system.
Eligibility
Help Me Grow Maine is a free service available to children up to eight years of age, and their families.
Developmental Screening
Developmental milestones matter! How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves is important to their growth. All young children need both developmental monitoring and screening to ensure they are on track for a healthy life.
Resources
In any given community, there are quality early learning opportunities, health care services, agencies that supply parent support, and other types of resources that help children thrive. The network of these community resources forms a grid that works to keep children healthy, supplies them opportunities for success, and helps them develop to their full potential. By working to set up partnerships across sectors that affect the lives of children and families, Help Me Grow builds an effective grid of connected service providers that best serves families within the state of Maine.
Referral & Follow Up
HMG strengthens the resource grid by connecting service providers to each other. This creates a reliable, interconnected system that best serves families. HMG Resource Specialists find existing resources and build a collaborative coalition that creates a well-functioning grid so that families can access resources when they need them.
When families or providers contact Help Me Grow, HMG aids in connecting them to the right services and supports within the resource grid. In addition, families will be contacted at a later point in time to ensure their child has received services and that all children have what they need to grow happy, healthy, and safe.
Data Collection & Analysis
Understanding how our system works is important. Data collection is the process of gathering, measuring, and analyzing data. Evaluation of the Help Me Grow system helps to assess how well it is working or what may need to be changed to improve the service and its outcome. Data is collected at the individual level and personal health information remains confidential.
Data that will be collected:
- Help Me Grow Demographics
- Nature of Calls
- Referrals by Help Me Grow to services/programs
- Help Me Grow outcomes
