Grand and Jackson County Road Maps

About The Road Maps

What is it? How do I use it?
The Grand and Jackson County road maps for developmental, vision, hearing and oral health are documents representing the process of screening, referral, and follow-up across the entire community. It describes when each type of professional conducts screenings, how to make appropriate referrals post-screening, what screening entities can expect as follow-up from referral agencies once a referral is made, and the messaging that families receive at each step in the community process.
Where did it come from?
The road maps are living, ever-evolving documents generated by ongoing input from stakeholders in the community. In 2010, a group of health care and early childhood professionals came together to express concern about local practices surrounding screening, referral, and follow-up:
  • Screening was not being conducted universally for all children.
  • Screening tools that were being used were not standardized and/or lacked validity.
  • Duplication in screening was occurring across entities.
  • Inappropriate referrals were being made.
  • There was no system in place to track the process from screening, referral, and follow-up.
  • Ultimately, children were falling through the cracks, and their development was not being optimally supported.
Mobilizing around these problems, the concerned professionals gathered community stakeholders together to in a series of discussions to determine what a unified screening, referral, and follow-up system would look like in the community to mitigate the above problems and subsequently improve child outcomes in the community. After many meetings and series of vetting across groups of stakeholders, the first road map was born. Over the years, the documents have grown and have been revised on a regular basis to ensure continued alignment with the specifics of the community thanks to the ongoing input provided by local stakeholders.
Suggest an edit
If you are a professional in Grand or Jackson County and think the road map should be changed to better reflect the community and its needs, please send us your input so that the road maps can be continuously improved.