Model for Public Health Competency Implementation- How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Identify your own personal strengths and areas of growth related to MCH Knowledge Base in a Public Health Context, by taking 5 minutes to register/log-in and answer questions related to Competency 1 in the MCH Navigator's online Self-Assessment.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 MCH national performance measures (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.
- How to Engage Your Communities (Community Strategy). Strengthen the Evidence Base for Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Programs is a Health Resources and Services Administration-funded initiative that aims to support states in their development of strategies to promote the health and well-being of MCH populations in the United States. The initiative has compiled a list of sample strategies and evidence-based/-informed strategy measures (ESMs) for 15 national performance measures. Are you looking to identify possible strategies, evaluate a selected strategy, provide evidence relating to specific strategies, adapt strategies for a specific population, or develop evidence-based or evidence-informed strategy measures? View example strategies and ESMs organized within the following six domains: women/maternal health, perinatal/infant health, child health and/or adolescent health, adolescent health, children and youth with special health care needs, and cross-cutting/life course. Please contact us if your state would like technical assistance in developing an action plan and related activities.
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