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Annotation: Collaboration and partnership are key strategies that help form the foundation of MCH work. Title V often serves as the convener of partners, community organizations, and families. Understanding the elements of successful collaborative efforts and the impact of partnerships and community coalitions is critical to document effectiveness of collaborative efforts. Dena Herman, PhD, MPH, RD, Professor, California State University, Northridge Adjunct; Associate Professor/Director, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, presents a focused review of the types of collaboration measurements, from qualitative and quantitative to an analysis of frameworks and theories and social networks. This learning opportunity was originally presented for the Children's Healthy Weight State Capacity Building Program at their Learning and Networking Call (December 2023).

Learning Objectives: • Understand the components of collaboration • Describe the elements of successful collaborative efforts • Learn how to use different types of collaboration measurement tools

Annotation: This course provides a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education and outreach programs. It helps program practitioners use and apply logic models – a framework and way of thinking to help us improve our work and be accountable for results. You will learn what a logic model is and how to use one for planning, implementation, evaluation or communicating about your program. This course has 7 sections. It starts with a basic, simple concept and adds to it over the various sections to provide a thorough foundation in the use of logic models. Each section contains resources and activities.

Learning Objectives: • Describe how a logic model can be used for program planning, implementation and evaluation. • Illustrate the relationship between logic model components: Inputs, Activities, Outputs, Outcomes, and Impact or Goal. • Construct a logic model given program information.

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Continuing Education: 1 hour

Annotation: Highlights how a family-centered approach to POSC helps states, Tribes, and communities meet the provisions of the 2016 amendments to the CAPTA POSC.

Learning Objectives: • Characterize the essential elements of a family-centered approach. • Summarize Michigan’s collaborative systems efforts across home visiting, substance use disorder treatment, healthcare and child welfare to enhance a family-centered approach to plans of safe care. • Interpret data to understand needs and inform progress. • Recognize equitable access to family-centered services. • Describe stigma.

Annotation: This seven-minute video is a basic introduction to the history, purpose, and administration of the Title V Block Grant. It has been developed by the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Learning Objectives: • Learn about the history of Title V of the Social Security Act and how it was transformed into the Block Grant. • Trace the development over time of programs and priorities of the Title V Block Grant.

Annotation: This video features a panel presentation to kick off the ‘Optimizing Child and Adolescent Health and Development Series’ published in The Lancet. The many panelists, who are all experts in their field, discuss rebuilding holistic child health services after the COVID-19 pandemic. Holistic action addresses reproductive, maternal, childhood, and adolescent health, as well as nutrition and development.

Learning Objectives: • Understand what a holistic approach to adolescent health means. • Identify the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic effected child health services. • Outline key steps identified to reinstate and strengthen child health services

Annotation: This video series was created to help those new or unfamiliar with the EMSC space learn more about the program and how to get involved. This series will dive into the history of the EMSC program, describe the various investments of the EMSC family of programs, provide a background to both prehospital and hospital care systems, and help both grantees and members of the public understand the importance of EMSC work. Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) works to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity resulting from severe illness or trauma. EMSC is the only federal funded program that focuses specifically on improving the quality of emergency care for children in the prehospitial and hospital-based settings.

Learning Objectives: •Explore an introduction to Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC). • Discuss the many moving parts of the EMSC.

Annotation: This video is a very basic, general overview of epidemiological concepts including: experimental studies, cohort studies, case control studies, types of epidemiologic studies, ecological studies, three major causes for error, and features of a reliable study.

Learning Objectives: • Define an epidemiologic study • Describe the different types of studies • Explain why no epidemiological study is perfect • List the three major causes for error • Outline how to detect a reliable study

Annotation: This webinar is part of a National Institute for Health Care Management series called “Stopping the Other Pandemic: Systematic Racism and Health.” This video explores the maternal mortality crisis in the United States and access to reproductive health care around the country.

Learning Objectives: • Explain the maternal mortality crisis in the United States and the disparities • Describe the role of quality of care in maternal health • Define how racial disparities play a role in maternal health • Review the mission of The Center for Black Internal Health and Reproductive Justice • List the main causes of pregnancy related deaths in the United States • Explain how to develop and evaluate innovative care delivery models for maternal health • Understand the importance of access to contraception and abortion care

Annotation: Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions in the lives of U.S. children and their families, including their health, health care access, receipt of intervention and other services, education, and child care arrangements. Accordingly, HRSA MCHB has taken steps to ensure that public health programs are prepared to meet these challenges and that researchers have access to relevant data. This symposium provides participants with an overview of resources for both immediate and long-term analytic needs. Specifically, this session presents three projects to collect data on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and their families: The National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), a new longitudinal cohort study of past NSCH respondents to launch in 2023, and the results of MCHB-sponsored content included in the Census Bureau’s weekly Household Pulse Survey.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss overviews of three projects to collect data on the impacts of COVID-19 on children and families. • Learn survey content and how to access survey data. • Review relevant timelines of data availability.

Annotation: This video serves as an in-depth introduction to conducting a community needs assessment. By breaking the process down into eleven steps, this training plan is easily digestible. Topics covered are defining a needs assessment, discussing partnership opportunities, and addressing how to achieve long-term or short-term community health improvements.

Learning Objectives: • Define community health needs assessment • Explain why community health needs assessments are important • Outline the 11 steps in conducting a community health needs assessment