# FQHC and Rural Pediatric Provider

## Role in developmental screening

Serves families at a federally qualified health center or rural primary care site, often with constrained budgets, limited specialist access, and patients who travel significant distances for care. Values screening tools that work with limited connectivity, support parent education, and produce results parents can act on at home.

**Ages served:** Children ages 0-5 at well-child visits in FQHC or rural primary care.

## Role in social-emotional screening

Serves families at a federally qualified health center or rural primary care site. Adds social-emotional screening to limited well-child visit time, often with families who face stressors related to social determinants of health, food insecurity, or housing instability.

**Ages served:** Children ages 0-5 at well-child visits with elevated SDOH overlap.