The Colorado Consortium of Intensive Care Nurseries

The Consortium is a network of 26 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Colorado who are committed to support developmental and family centered care. Each NICU has formed teams which include a manager, a staff person, a parent who has had an infant in the intensive care unit, an Early Childhood Connections representative (Part C) from the community, and a public health nurse. This group meets regularly to plan and trouble-shoot difficulties in implementing developmental care in a family centered framework and to identify infants eligible for Part C community based support. Through this team work, the program's mission is to enable infants and their families, with the implementation of developmentally supportive care, have more optimal medical and developmental outcomes; with family centered care, have more opportunities for making a contribution to their own infant's as well as others' outcomes; with early identification, have more resources available early in their lives; and with families having enhanced leadership skills, have more opportunities for making a difference in their communities for their own infant, as well as others.

Major Goals: 

1. Implement developmentally supportive and family centered care; 
2. Refer infants and their families appropriately to community support services; 
3. Integrate community professionals into the work of the NICU collaborative teams.

Funding Sources: 

This project is supported by the Colorado Department of Education Early Childhood Initiatives.

JFK Partners

University of Colorado Denver

13121 E. 17^th Ave, C234

Aurora, CO 80045

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