SEEK has been implemented successfully in urban and rural, large and small, pediatric and family medicine primary care practices, as well as in resident (trainee) clinics. While developed for primary care, SEEK has also been implemented in child advocacy centers, prenatal clinics, obstetric practices, clinics for children with complex medical conditions, and in childcare centers.

Potential benefits of implementing SEEK in your practice

1. Your practice, primary care professionals (PCPs) and staff should benefit from the SEEK training and materials, and by families being more satisfied with their care.
2. By helping address common health-related social needs, SEEK should improve the care you provide - by helping strengthen families, support parents and parenting, promote children’s health, development, wellbeing, and safety, and helping prevent child abuse and neglect. In sum, families, children and parents should benefit.
3. You’ll enhance your practice in accordance with recommendations for addressing prevalent psychosocial problems - by the US Preventive Services Task Force, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Board of Family Medicine.
4. Implementing SEEK helps you qualify as a “patient-centered medical home.”
5. Your practice may be reimbursed for administering the SEEK screener. This varies by state and insurer.
6. If you participate in the SEEK MOC 4 or Performance Improvement Self-directed Activity, you’ll earn the necessary credits for board accreditation and learn useful information re. the quality improvement (QI) process to apply to future innovations in your practice.

“We have used your SEEK instrument for over two years at the Pediatric Clinic within Rocking Horse Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Springfield, Ohio. Your instrument has made important contributions to our primary care efforts. It has enabled us to identify children and families who would benefit from our integrated behavioral health services. It has also identified a number of families who were food-insecure or needed a smoke detector in their homes. Congratulations on creating a very useful instrument that has improved the quality of primary health care we provide to the children and families of Springfield, Ohio.”

John M. Pascoe, MD, MPH, Pediatrician, Rocking Horse Community Health Center, Springfield, Ohio; Professor of Pediatrics, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.

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