{"id":304339,"date":"2019-07-23T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=304339"},"modified":"2019-07-23T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T20:06:05","slug":"60-undergo-training-on-monitoring-child-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/60-undergo-training-on-monitoring-child-development\/","title":{"rendered":"60 undergo training on monitoring child development"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304340\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Undergo-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Undergo-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training participants pose for a group photo after the training last Saturday, July 20. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 60 individuals participated in a training last Saturday, July 20, that focused on promoting the importance of developmental screening to monitor the growth of children.<\/p>\n<p>The training, which focused on administering the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, was a partnership between the Commonwealth Health Care Corp.\u2019s Division of Public Health Services\u2019 Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Child Care and Development Fund.<\/p>\n<p>It was facilitated by MCHB Child Health coordinator Danielle Su, including MCHB staff and childcare providers subsidized by the CCDF.<\/p>\n<p>The Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3rd edition, or ASQ-3, is a parent-completed developmental screening tool used to monitor the developmental performance of children aged 1 month to 66 months in the areas of communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social skills.<\/p>\n<p>The training focused on promoting the importance of developmental screening and monitoring utilizing the ASQ-3 screener, and was aimed at participants who had not been previously trained on the ASQ-3.<\/p>\n<p>This training is important in providing CNMI childcare and health providers with the tools to support parents in using the ASQ-3 to monitor their child\u2019s development and identify possible areas where support is needed. At the CHCC Children&#8217;s Clinic, developmental screenings are incorporated into well-child visits, and screenings are recommended at regular intervals until a child reaches 66 months (5 1\/2 years) of age. C<\/p>\n<p>For more information, and for parents who may be concerned about their child\u2019s development, call the MCHB at (670) 664-8701.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the CCDF, access https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/archive\/occ\/resource\/child-care-and-development-fund<\/p>\n<p>For more information about CHCC programs, follow it on Facebook and Twitter at @cnmichcc, check out its website at www.chcc.gov.mp or call (670) 234-8950. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 60 individuals participated in a training last Saturday, July 20, that focused on promoting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":304340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}