UMSSW’s Institute for Innovation and Implementation has been awarded a five-year, $646,878 grant to establish the TREEHOUSE Program in Maryland.
The University of Maryland School of Social Work's (UMSSW) Institute for Innovation and Implementation, in partnership with the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MDAAP), has been awarded a five-year, $646,878 grant to establish the TREEHOUSE Program in Maryland. The grant recently was awarded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program.
The program increases access to quality preventive care and services to promote health equity and enhances population health among very young children and their families in underserved, low-income communities by: 1) increasing pediatric provider capacity to address patient developmental and social-emotional needs; 2) improving the quality of parent-child interactions; 3) increasing knowledge of and referral to community-based resources to support families; and 4) strengthening cross-agency partnerships to create an improved system of support for families with young children.
Margo Candelaria, PhD, is the principal investigator for the TREEHOUSE Program and co-director of the Institute’s Parent, Infant, and Early Childhood Program. She expressed her enthusiasm for this important collaborative effort: “I’m very excited to expand our ongoing work with the MDAAP and expand TREE’s positive impact on underserved families within primary care to the telehealth environment throughout the state of Maryland.”