Help Me Grow
South Carolina’s gateway to raising healthy children.
As the state’s most comprehensive, healthy development resource hub for families of young children, Help Me Grow connects caregivers to the specialists, tools and services they need to support their child’s behavior, health and learning.
Our care coordinators guide caregivers through the complicated network of services and supports available to children birth to age 5.
We offer:
- Child development specialists to identify and connect parents to the right resources close to home.
- ASQ (Ages & Stages Questionnaire) developmental screenings to measure a child’s progress and explore everyday ways to support his or her learning.
- SC’s most connected grid of child development and community resources, ranging from basic needs to parent support.
We can support your practice and the families you serve.
Help Me Grow works with child health and service providers to offer developmental screenings, follow up connection to services, and information regarding healthy child development. With just one referral, we provide an individualized resource navigation pathway for each family.
Our team follows up with each caregiver to ensure their connection to services and provides a summary of all referrals back to the referring provider.
Referrals
Any service provider can refer a child (birth to age 5) to Help Me Grow. Knowing when to make a referral is critical.
Make a referral if a:
- Child needs ongoing developmental screening.
- Child and family need infant or early childhood mental health services.
- Child is enrolled in early care and education center and behavioral concerns are impacting ability to stay enrolled.
- Child is not already connected to BabyNet.
- Child is not already receiving developmental or behavioral health services.
If a child is already connected to BabyNet and/or receiving developmental or behavioral health services, their current provider(s) can contact Help Me Grow to learn about additional services and supports in the child's county.
Help Me Grow is making a difference across South Carolina.
$3
In Savings
for every $1 invested
$1.9m
saved
in special education & public assistance program spending (2019)
$75k
saved
for healthcare & early intervention systems by child referrals to community-based resources instead of tertiary specialists (2019)
9,000
children & families
connected to community-based programs & services
Have questions?
Contact Help Me Grow Director Susan Callahan, MSW, IMH-E® at scallahan@scimha.org.
Parents
Are you a parent interested in requesting services? Want to take a screening for a quick check-up on your child’s development? Click here.