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Referral Assistance

Two service gateways now make it faster and easier for you to link families with early childhood developmental services:

Healthy Families Line

1-800-369-2229

This number will link you with your local EPSDT Care Coordinator, who will work with you and the family to access additional screening, evaluation, or intervention services that may be part of the child's comprehensive plan of care. The EPSDT Care Coordinator will also help you connect the family to referral resources.

Care coordination services can help you identify local referral resources and work with the family to determine specific, community-based services they can use to meet the goals they have set in their child's individualized care plan.

Iowa COMPASS

Voice 1-800-779-2001
TTY 1-877-686-0032

iowa-compass@uiowa.edu
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/cdd/multiple/programs/iowacompass.asp

If you have concerns that a child is developmentally delayed or may be at risk for delay, call Iowa COMPASS. You don't have to confirm a diagnosis before calling Iowa COMPASS.

For a child age 0-36 months, COMPASS will connect you with a local Early ACCESS provider.
For a child age 3-5 years,, COMPASS will refer you to an appropriate source of care, such as:

Iowa Child Health Specialty Clinic

Your local Area Education Agency (AEA)

Your community health center or a specific clinic

For more information on referral resources in Iowa, contact the EPSDT provider training consultant at the Iowa Department of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health.

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