The Kids Get Care model contains three basic elements:

1. Community Engagement:
   Kids Get Care community health educators train community agency staff (typically child care agency staff) and parents about the importance of prevention, using oral health and developmental red flag identification tools. These staff form a web of community connections around participating clinic sites to support parents and funnel children to services.
   
   
2. Linkage:
   Children are linked to a medical and dental home. The prevention messages emphasize the importance of getting services from a regular source of care.
   
   
3. Seize The Moment: 
   The Kids Get Care case manager helps assure that comprehensive preventive services are provided during the visit, i.e. oral health and developmental screening occur during a regular medical preventive visit. Using quality improvement tools, doctors, dentists, and mental health staff are cross trained to recognize and refer children for needed services in all areas, preferably in the same visit; e.g., dentists ask whether immunizations and well child visits are up-to-date and send kids across the hall to the doctor and physicians do oral health education, screening and apply fluoride varnish. Once the children are getting services, good coverage is critical and the case manager and clinic eligibility workers help the family enroll if needed.