Self-Reflection
Module 2.3: 5 Implementation Strategies
In this module we will augment the knowledge you've gained from the last module's learning opportunities by providing you with 5 implementation strategies gathered from our team of experts.
These implementation strategies follow a conceptual model of widening circles of influence. In this model, MCH leaders utilize resources and tools to activate change within their organization, which in turn incorporates partners through its systems of influence. Together, changes may be implemented to affect specific target populations and the MCH community in general.
Model for Public Health Competency Implementation
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LEARN
These 5 implementation strategies align with the 5 circles of the Model for Public Health Competency Implementation, and represent ways that you can utilize what you've learned over the past few modules. In particular, we have included resources and strategies to align your work with the transformation of the MCH Block Grant.
- How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Identify your own personal strengths and areas of growth related to Competency 2, Self-Reflection, by taking 5 minutes to register/log-in and answer questions related to this competency in the MCH Navigator's online Self-Assessment.
- How to Find and Use Tools to Help You (Information Strategy). Explore Zero to Three's Reflective Practice and Program Development tools including the Leadership Self-Assessment Tool, a brief series of statements and reflective questions that offer insight into one’s leadership style.
- How to Activate Your Organization (Organizational Strategy). Consider printing a series of 12 colorful posters with strategies to reduce stress from the Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. Post them in different areas of your office (break room, kitchen, bathroom, work room) to share stress reduction tips with your colleagues. Available in English and En Español. Share Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress with your colleagues. This tool from HelpGuide.org links to relaxation techniques for stress management, tips for stress relief in the moment, a stress management self-help checklist, and more.
- How to Incorporate Partners (Systems Strategy). Read this article from the Maternal and Child Health Journal to learn about three states' experiences using competency-based self-assessments and the MCH Navigator for MCH workforce development within their department and across systems.
- How to Engage Your Communities. See the Family Voices Title V Tip Sheet: 5-Year Needs Assessment for ways to include families in your state needs assessment process. Also see the AMCHP Pulse article on using PhotoVoice, an action research method in which community members are supplied with cameras and asked to document the realities of life in the community.
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COMMENT
Comment on the Implementation Strategies...
Please share your thoughts on ways to implement this competency in your daily work by telling us how you plan to incorporate these strategies into your work, asking questions about how others actualize this competency, or suggesting new strategies focused on this competency.
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INTERACT
See What Others are Saying...
Tell us how you will use what you have learned:
- "I enjoyed reading the MCH Journal article. It gave me ideas on how to incorporate the self-assessment as a professional development tool for staff in my department."
- The Leadership-Self Assessment tool looks easy to complete and is a nice way to measure this topic, especially when there is so much bundled into self-reflection that is all tied to leadership -- both in leading and in following."
- "I plan on printing up the stress posters. They have content that will be useful to MCH staff, and are an easy way to use resources from your program."
- "I will hang the stress posters and make a more focused point of finding down time to relax and reflect."
