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5-Minute MCH: Module 9.2

5-Minute MCH: Module 9.2

Developing Others through Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring

Module 9.2: 5 Learning Opportunities

This module builds on what we learned about MCH Leadership Competencies 1-8 by introducing you to 5 learning opportunities about Competency 9: Developing Others through Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring from the MCH Navigator catalog.

Click below to: Learn more with our 5 learning opportunities, Comment on this module's trainings, and Interact with other MCH professionals who are also taking the 5-Minute MCH program.

LEARN

These 5 learning opportunities represent some of the most relevant and/or recent online trainings in the field and have been chosen based on their ease of access, focus, brevity, and their integration with principles necessary to advance the transformation of the MCH Block Grant. Trainings have been identified by MCH Navigator staff and further vetted by a group of MCH experts in the states and in academic settings.

Take one or all of the trainings to sharpen your knowledge and skills, either individually or with your colleagues as a team-building exercise.

  1. Mentoring in Our Lives: The Voices of Students and Maternal and Child Health Professionals. Developed: 2014. Source: Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, National Center for Cultural Competence. Presenter(s): Harolyn Belcher, MD, MHS; Christine Chan; Lucy Guevara; Stacy Hodgkinson, PhD; Kristin Hunt, PhD; Michael Jenkins, MPH; Sabrina Roundtree; Damian Waters. Type: Video. Level: Introductory - Advanced. Length: 53 videos ranging in length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes each.
  2. Teaching Public Health with the Case-Based Method (3-Part Workshop). Developed: 2014. Source: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Presenter(s): Nancy Kane. Type: YouTube videos. Level: Intermediate. Length: 3-17 minutes each.
  3. What is Mentoring? Developed: 2013. Source: Colorado Public Health Association. Presenter(s): Lane Drager, Kim Boyd. Type: Archived Webinar. Level: Introductory. Length: 48 minutes.
  4. Leadership: Giving and Receiving Feedback. Developed: 2013. Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Women’s and Children’s Health Policy Center. Presenter(s): Robert Wm. Blum, MD, PhD, MPH. Type: Video. Level: Introductory. Length: 40 minutes.
  5. The True Meaning of Succession Planning. Developed: 2013. Source: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. Presenter(s): Michael Warren, MD, MPH; Linda McElwain, RN; Patricia Tilley, MS, MA. Type: Webinar Archive. Level: Introductory. Length: 60 minutes.

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INTERACT

See What Others are Saying...

  • "Succession planning is the ultimate form of teaching and mentoring, and something that as professionals we need to consider more. Too often we wait until the last minute, when there is so little time to do it properly."
  • "The videos on mentoring are a treasure! I had no idea they existed. I've been clicking on several of them, and they are all great. Thanks for including them."
  • "Looking forward to the webinar this month to pull this all together."
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This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UE8MC25742; MCH Navigator for $225,000/year. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.