Women's and Children's Health Section: Children and Youth Branch
The Children and Youth Branch helps all North Carolina children to grow, develop and be healthy. We do this through health promotion, prevention, early identification, treatment and intervention. With the help of the Children and Youth Branch Family Partners for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Branch programs and services are offered within family-centered, community-based systems of care. The Branch manages many programs and services.
Best Practices
- Anaphylaxis Training Program
- Child Health Data Collection and Management
- Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Disability and Health
- Local Child Fatality Prevention Teams - Part of NC’s Child Fatality Prevention System
- NC Child Fatality Task Force - Part of NC’s Child Fatality Prevention System
- NC Medicaid and Health Choice Outreach
- Quality Assurance - Child Health Program Review and Subrecipient Monitoring
- Children with Special Health Care Needs Help Line
- Transitioning Children with Special Health Care Needs from Pediatric to Adult Care
Genetics and Newborn Screening
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Services
- Genetic Counseling Services
- Newborn Screening Services
Health and Wellness
- Child Care Health Consultation
- Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
- Newborn Home Visit Services
- Child Health Care: Exams and Treatment for Children
- Positive Parenting Program - Triple P in North Carolina
School Health
- Adolescent Health Resource Center
- Health Assessment
- School Nursing Support
- School Health Center Consultation and Support
- School Nutrition Consultation and Support
- Policy and Reporting by School Health Centers
Programs in all units address access to care and have services and initiatives that focus on availability, accessibility and utilization of primary and preventive health (and related) services for children and youth from birth to age 21.
Last Modified: January 17, 2023