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Annotation: This training brief focuses on those skills needed in communities as identified by CityMatCH's Strategic Work Plan. It covers collaboration and partnerships; evaluation; health equity and social justice for improved family and community health; use of data strategically for the transformation of family and community health; engaging and strengthening MCH leaders; and community health centers.

Annotation: Health equity is a top priority for many health agencies. Public health leaders can use performance management systems to advance health equity goals by systematically collecting and monitoring data to track results and identify opportunities for improvement. On the latest episode of the Public Health Review podcast, ASTHO senior executive consultant Nicole Alexander-Scott (alumni-RI), Harry Chen (alumni-VT), and Montana's state health improvement coordinator, Anna Bradley, discuss how the current equity efforts can integrate with established performance management practices.

Learning Objectives: • Learn how current equity efforts can integrate with established performance management practices. • Discuss how health agencies can use planning documents to integrate equity in health assessments and strategic planning.

Annotation: This video describes Pennsylvania's Title V equity work as part of the National MCH Workforce Development Center's Strengthening Skills for Health Equity Skills Institute held remotely in March 2021. Pennsylvania has developed a Health Equity Committee to increase Title V's capacity to achieve health equity in the design, development, and implementation of public health programs, services, and systems. This committee encourages training, buy-in, tools for technical assistance and a health equity plan.

Annotation: This video describes Oregon's MCAH Title V equity work as part of the National MCH Workforce Development Center's Strengthening Skills for Health Equity Skills Institute held remotely in March 2021. Ms. Fischler describes the Oregon Strategic Goal to eliminate health disparities by 2030 through public health modernization, a state health improvement plan, their governor's racial justice task force, current legislation to declare racism as a public health crisis, and a commitment to address inequities made more visible through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Annotation: This video describes Louisiana's Title V equity work as part of the National MCH Workforce Development Center's Strengthening Skills for Health Equity Skills Institute held remotely in March 2021. Louisiana follows a learning/testing/growing model where they: (1) learn through training and consultation with experts about health equity; (2) test through development of a health equity action team and action plan; and (3) grow through ongoing conversations on racial justice with staff, families, and community advocates.

Annotation: Recording of January 11, 2021 webinar where Human Impact Partners and Big Cities Health Coalition discuss their tool to support health departments in addressing equity in COVID-19 response. Featuring Lili Farhang, Co-Director, Human Impact Partners, Heather Jue Northover, Director, Center for Health Equity, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and Gretchen Musicant, Commissioner, City of Minneapolis Health Department.

Learning Objectives: • Reenergize the practice of applying an equity lens in COVID-19 decision making. • Assess how decisions will be experienced by specific communities and ensure these decisions work for the people most impacted. • Learn an approach for engaging with and remaining accountable to communities historically disenfranchised from decision making.

Annotation: This webinar will share lessons learned about how to successfully get your Strategy and Evaluation teams to work together to create effective feedback loops. What typically gets in the way – Tradition. Threat to strategy team. Level of effort. Institutional norms.

Annotation: This webinar focuses on what MCH professionals can do to achieve equity in healthcare responses to the adolescent population. Presenters share the basics of transformation; exemplary and transformed equity practices in healthcare; and distinctions between young child and adolescent health.

Annotation: A commonly asked question across states is “What strategic steps can we take to advance health equity at our health department?” 1 In response to this need in the field the MCH Navigator in collaboration with the National MCH Workforce Development Center created this learning opportunity to assist MCH professionals in answering that question. Originally a full presentation focused on health equity conducted by the National MCH Workforce Development Center, we have separated it into multiple sections for easier access and the ability for learners to quickly locate specific sections of interest. This resource is formatted to include the following sections: an introduction, 10 individual strategies to achieve health equity, a presentation by Nevillene White of the New York State Department of Health which provides success stories applying health equity strategies in the field, and a short wrap up with additional resources provided.

Annotation: Research shows that youth services library staff in both public and school libraries recognize the need for professional and personal knowledge related to race and racism and anti-racist work (Hughes-Hassell & Stivers, 2015); however, there are currently few comprehensive resources that specifically address the needs of library professionals. The Project READY curriculum addresses this gap in existing professional development opportunities for youth services library staff.

Learning Objectives: • Introduce youth services library staff to research in areas such as race and racism, critical theory, and culturally responsive or sustaining pedagogy. • Establish a shared understanding of foundational concepts and issues related to race, racism, and racial equity. • Encourage self-reflection related to race and racial identity for both white and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) library staff in public and school libraries. • Amplify the work of practitioners and scholars who are providing inclusive and culturally responsive services for youth of color and Indigenous youth. • Provide concrete strategies for creating and/or improving library programs and services for Black youth, Indigenous youth, and children and teens of color.