Courses

Integrate practices to identify, treat and reduce the effects of trauma and toxic stress among children and adolescents. Includes ethical guidelines for reporting suspected abuse or neglect and for providing culturally effective health-care services.

Adopt recommended screening schedules and tools to diagnose and manage ADHD among children and adolescents in the primary care setting. Includes guidelines for making referrals and coordinating care with specialists.

Learn the tools to integrate substance use screening and intervention into practice, employ current evidence-based models to manage patients who use substances or are in recovery, and refer patients.

Learn to implement nationally recognized dental quality measures such as individualized caries risk assessment and age-appropriate anticipatory guidance to improve oral health for patients 3 through 20 years.

Learn to conduct required ASD screening, make diagnoses and referrals, and collaborate with families to provide continuity of care in a primary care setting.

Determine how and when to effectively screen for and treat common childhood and adolescent mental, emotional and behavioral disorders in the primary care setting.

Communicate clear and consistent messages about breastfeeding and provide support to help families achieve their breastfeeding goals.

Learn how and why to create and sustain a medical home in your primary care practice.

Bullying can have immediate and long-term negative physical, behavioral and academic effects. This course defines bullying, describes risks and protective factors, and presents a clinical pathway to identifying and caring for children who bully, are victims of bullying, are bully-victims, or are bystanders.

Identify and manage childhood and adolescent depression, make appropriate referrals, and provide ongoing care and coordination in a primary care setting.

Identify and manage childhood anxiety, make appropriate referrals, and provide ongoing care and coordination in a primary care setting.

Learn about state-mandated newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease, the screening process and appropriate follow-up.

Promote effective communication and improve health outcomes for culturally diverse patients and their families. Includes guidelines for obtaining informed consent and using interpretation services in the medical home.

Integrate validated developmental screenings and ongoing surveillance to meet Texas Health Steps requirements for preventive medical checkups.

Recognize the symptoms of diabetes and distinguish among the various types that affect children and adolescents. Includes best practices for effectively managing diabetes through medication and lifestyle changes.

Serious but treatable eating disorders affect more than 4 percent of children and adolescents but often go undetected. Learn how to identify and address eating disorders as part of routine clinical care and how to address possible weight stigma in your office.

Implement best clinical practices to identify and treat exercise-induced dyspnea, apply an algorithm to clear athletes to return to play, and determine when specialty care is necessary.

Dentists enrolled in Texas Medicaid must complete this training and provide additional certification in order to bill Medicaid for First Dental Home services for children 6 through 35 months.

Food insecurity and housing instability often go hand in hand and can have dire effects on child and adolescent health and development. This course provides an overview of the problem and offers tools and tips for screening during checkups and connecting families with resources and interventions.

Learn best practices and ethical guidelines for genetic clinical evaluations, screening and testing, appropriate referrals and ongoing care in a primary care practice.

Identify the legal roles and responsibilities of Texas Local Health Authorities and how they ensure public health emergencies and other health issues are addressed in a proper and timely manner.

Implement best practices to provide age-appropriate hearing and vision screenings in the primary care setting and coordinate with school screenings.

Learn about the prevalence, signs, symptoms and interventions for substance use and other risky adolescent behaviors.

Equip Texas Health Steps providers and other health-care professionals to identify asthma, apply a stepwise treatment approach as part of managing asthma patients in a primary care setting and make appropriate referrals for specialty care.

Effectively communicate vaccine information to patients and families, apply the national immunization and catch-up schedules and identify vaccine contraindications and precautions. Includes current ACIP guidelines.

Integrate best practices to identify and reduce risks for sleep-related infant death and motivate parents and caregivers to provide safe sleeping environments. Includes proven communication strategies and resources.

Implement strategies to identify, intervene in and prevent behaviors such as bullying, self-injury and suicide, dating violence and sexting. Includes guidelines for ethically responding when an adolescent patient perpetrates violence.

Long-acting reversible contraception, known as LARC, is safe, effective and recommended by Texas Health Steps and other state programs. This course covers state requirements and best practices for making LARC devices available to patients of childbearing age.

Adopt best practices that can be used in primary care to assess, treat and prevent overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.

Gain communication skills that can be used in the primary care setting to motivate children, adolescents and families to make positive health changes, improve self-care for chronic conditions and avoid high-risk behaviors.

Implement best practices that can be used in the primary care setting to manage parent anxiety about out-of-range newborn hearing results and to encourage follow-up care.

A primary care provider’s guide to Texas’s newborn screening program, including how to interpret results, communicate with parents and follow up to ensure necessary treatment occurs in a timely manner.

Implement practices required for physicians, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to perform Oral Evaluation and Fluoride Varnish services in Texas. Completion of this course and additional certification are required to bill Medicaid for the service.

Promote oral health for infants and children in a primary care practice. Includes screening and treatment guidelines as well as age-appropriate anticipatory guidance

Implement current guidelines for measuring blood pressures in children and adolescents, treating hypertension, and seeking specialty or emergency care.

Integrate best practices for providing pharmacy services to patients in Texas Medicaid, the Kidney Health Care Program, Healthy Texas Women Program and the Children with Special Health Care Needs program.

Learn how to identify and address factors that affect maternal health and safety in the first year after childbirth.

Integrate best practices for preconception health care and counseling into preventive medical checkups.

Integrate best practices for prenatal health care and counseling into preventive medical checkups.

Learn to identify risk factors for unintentional injury in children and adolescents, provide age-appropriate anticipatory guidance and apply state law and best practices to prevent unintentional injury and death.

Adopt best practices for adolescent screening, including recommended schedules, effective communication and enhanced clinical procedures. Includes video examples of effective screening techniques.

Implement best practices to effectively screen for child abuse, comply with legal reporting requirements and promote protective factors that prevent child abuse.

Learn to coordinate care for children and adolescents with sickle cell disease and trait, including collaborating with patients, families and medical specialists.

Families across Texas have experienced social isolation and loneliness that can have immediate and long-term effects on physical, mental and behavioral health. Learn how to screen for social isolation and loneliness and address their effects as part of routine checkups.

Implement best practices for collecting and handling specimens in a clinical setting as well as requirements for submitting specimens to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Learn to diagnose, treat and prevent concussion in children and adolescents.

Establish practice guidelines that comply with legal requirements for obtaining consent and maintaining confidentiality in providing health-care services to adolescents.

Learn to perform and be reimbursed for preventive medical checkups and other pediatric and adolescent services through the Texas Health Steps Medicaid program.

Learn to develop and implement transition plans for patients with chronic health conditions or disabilities as they approach school age or adulthood.

Children and youth in foster care are entitled to a “3 in 30” series of services and coordinated ongoing care. This module provides guidance about providing trauma-informed practices in the medical home to meet the needs of young people in foster care.

Learn recommended procedures that will equip Texas Health Steps providers and others to employ best practices and follow state requirements for TB screening, testing and treatment in children and adolescents.

Learn why Texas has initiated newborn screening for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) and how to respond when a newborn’s results are out-of-range.

This module provides updated information about addressing youth suicide as well as helpful resources for developing a team workflow and self-care practices that support the entire staff in handling challenging patient situations.