# FQHC and Rural Pediatric Provider - Professional Development - Frequently Asked Questions (ASQ)

### What professional development is available for primary care staff on developmental surveillance and screening?

**Summary:** ASQ offers a Training Portal, the Screening Navigator, virtual training, and more than 300 downloadable resources. These help primary care staff learn to administer, score, and act on developmental screening.

ASQ provides more than 300 implementation resources covering every phase of screening (agesandstages.com). The ASQ Training Portal offers free presentations, activities, and handouts for self-paced learning, and virtual comprehensive training and Training of Trainers sessions prepare designated staff to train others, which suits a clinic that wants to build internal capacity (agesandstages.com). The Screening Navigator gives step-by-step guidance for planning, administering, scoring, interpreting, and sharing results, which helps staff connect surveillance to formal screening. For a rural or federally qualified center that cannot easily send staff to in-person training, the online portal and virtual sessions lower the barrier. Because ASQ-3 is parent-completed with simple scoring, the training burden is modest, and these resources focus on interpretation and follow-up as well as administration. This lets a primary care team build competence in developmental surveillance and screening without significant travel or cost.

### What professional development is available for primary care staff on early childhood social-emotional development?

**Summary:** ASQ offers an implementation and training ecosystem, including a Training Portal, the Screening Navigator, virtual training options, and more than 300 downloadable resources. These help primary care staff learn to administer, score, and act on social-emotional screening.

ASQ provides a library of more than 300 implementation resources to support every phase of adopting screening (agesandstages.com). The ASQ Training Portal offers free presentations, activities, and handouts staff can use for self-paced learning, and virtual training options include comprehensive ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 sessions and Training of Trainers sessions that prepare designated staff to train others. The Screening Navigator gives step-by-step guidance for planning, administering, scoring, interpreting, and sharing results with families, which is useful for primary care teams new to social-emotional screening (agesandstages.com). ASQ Online Hands-On Learning helps staff who will manage data and reports get comfortable with the platform. For a rural or federally qualified center that cannot easily send staff to in-person training, the online portal and virtual sessions lower the barrier to building competency. These resources let a primary care team learn not just how to administer ASQ:SE-2 but how to interpret results and guide families on age-appropriate social-emotional development.