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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 Provider Training Consultant, 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.

Early ACCESS Iowa
1-888-425-4371
Website: www.EarlyACCESSIowa.org
Email: earlyaccessiowa@vnsdm.org

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

Early ACCESS Iowa information specialists can be reached by phone and email
from 8 AM to 7 PM, Monday through Friday.

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

Your local Area Education Agency (AEA)

Your community health center or a specific clinic

Iowa Child Health Specialty Clinic

For more information on referral resources in Iowa, contact the EPSDT Provider Training Consultant.

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