5-Minute MCH: Module 1.3

1. How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Identify your own personal strengths and areas of growth related to Competency 1, MCH Knowledge Base in a Public Health Context, by taking 5 minutes to register/log-in and answer questions related to this competency in the MCH Navigator's online Self-Assessment.
2. How to Find and Use Tools to Help You (Information Strategy). Access the MCH Timeline to learn more about the history of MCH. You can also utilize Title V Toolkits, Professional Resource Guides, School Resource Briefs, and Family Materials through the MCH Digital Library at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH).
3. How to Activate Your Organization (Organizational Strategy). Conduct a "Lunch and Learn" event in your department where staff who have been in MCH for a long time share their perspectives on where the field is going. Consider inviting colleagues who have retired to speak to the next generation of MCH professionals on how the field has changed.
4. How to Incorporate Partners (Systems Strategy). Use this Partners Wheel to help identify natural partners for your organization/department to collaborate with in addressing the focus areas addressed by the NPMs . Use the graphic on page 1 of the document to help frame the 6 domains and prioritize the 15 NPM topics; then on pages 2-4, brainstorm and record partners (individuals, community groups, governmental agencies, MCHB-funded projects) that you currently work with or those who you would like to reach out to.
5. How to Engage Your Communities. Use the Community Services Locator to develop a deep, working understanding of available services in your state or community. Use the links to national searches to identify education, health, mental health, family support, parenting, child care, and other services that can help children and families right in your area. Use Where to Seek Help: A Bright Futures Referral Tool for Providers in conjunction with the Locator to help build a customized directory of community-based resources. Encourage families in your community to use these tools to learn about services that they can use.
   

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• "I'm having staff review the evidence reports; very timely information as we've just handed in our block grant application. We'll use these reports in developing strategies for implementing our state measures."
• "We've downladed the partners wheel and are going to spend some time in a staff meeting using this as a discussion tool."
• "Didn't know about the Community Locator, but what a great idea. It would be nice if all of the searching was already done for us, but I'm assigning different people on my staff to do research with it to identify resources under different topics."
• "I really liked the Partners Wheel!!"
• "I will use these implementation strategies within positions of leadership in my life in order to positively make change by utilizing the tools in my reach to implement change in my organizations."
• "I have always believed that being an active listener can be one of the strongest qualities a person can acquire when used to speak up at the correct moments.
  It is also important to remember that as a leader, that does not mean you have to know everything. Use the ability to delegate to those who are "experts" at what they do to collectively make an effective and successful effort."
• "Can you please implement some real life examples in which these implementations have worked in the past?"
• "The Partners Wheel and Bright Futures Referral Tool for Providers are valuable resources that we can begin using in our child health programming immediately."