The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will appoint an ad hoc panel of experts to examine what innovations can be made to the child and adolescent health care system to improve the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families. The study will address the following questions:
1. What are key levers of change to guide innovation and implement transformation within the child and adolescent health care system to facilitate health promotion, resiliency, disease prevention, and appropriate treatments and interventionsfor all children, youth, and families?
2. What are promising policies and practices that incorporate the lived experiences of underserved children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers, and build the needed trust, partnerships, and long-term relationships to promote family-centered engagement, promote protective factors, and help address systemic inequities and disparities in access to and use of high-quality child and adolescent health care?
3. What are the gaps and barriers in current payment models, for both public and commercial insurance, and what are potential solutions to overcome them?
4. How can innovation in workforce development within the health care system facilitate team-based care and produce more community-based, culturally- and linguistically-competent workers? What strategies can stabilize the workforce to enable the formation of long-term relationships within the community?
5. What are promising levers available within the health care system to enhance interaction and integration of the child and adolescent health care system with major programs that support education, child and youth development, public health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and other key services that heavily influence the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents?
6. What are promising mechanisms and policies to enhance collaboration among and integration of data systems for health care, mental health, public health, welfare, education, and other agencies at the community, State, and Federal levels for improved individual and population health?