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Annotation: This training brief contains targeted learning opportunities to assist the MCH workforce understand how to negotiate and resolve conflict that may arise in the work place.

Annotation: This training brief focuses on learning opportunities for use by the Title V workforce in understanding and implementing interdisciplinary and interprofessional training. Topics include team building, roles and competencies of individual disciplines, sharing leadership and outcomes, quality improvement, and interprofessional education.

Annotation: This series of webinars feature special topics related to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) research. Each event features one or more speakers who are experts in the field. Topics include Marginal Structural Models and Methodological Clarity, Qualitative Methods for Public Health: An Overview and Introduction, Estimating Absolute Differences and Relative Rate Ratios from Regression Models, and Using Electronic Health Records for Health Services Research.

Annotation: This webinar focuses on policy and advocacy, two topics that have consistently ranked of high interest, but low self-perceived efficacy by users of the MCH Navigator's online self-assessment tool. Molly McNulty, JD, from the University of Rochester as presents the sources of law and policy; to tools to advance policy; and a case study focused on Early Intervention.

Learning Objectives: • Explain the basics of US policy process. • Teach about policy process and research. • Appraise and apply MCH policy strategies.

Continuing Education: ATMCH has secured 1.0 CPH credit for participating in either the webinar or webinar archive. For more information, email Julie McDougal at [email protected].

Annotation: Learners participating in this web-based course will focus on leadership effectiveness particularly in terms of facilitating innovation and change within an organization and achieving an organizational context that is conducive to continuous improvement and a never-ending commitment to excellence. As effective leaders, we strive to create a shared vision of the future and then mobilize people, processes, and resources to achieve that vision. Effective leaders treat innovation and change as a continuous process, not as a single event or series of staccato or stop-and-go actions. By establishing and maintaining a continuous forward momentum, leaders can engage others in working together to be adaptable and flexible in their ongoing pursuit of their shared vision. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Examine various factors that influence successful adoption and implementation of innovation and change • Use at least one theoretical model for examining change processes and the role of leadership • Describe characteristics of effective leaders for facilitating innovation, change, and continuous improvement • Identify individual and organizational characteristics that facilitate successful change • Use specific leadership strategies to create and sustain effective change

Continuing Education: 4.00 Participation/CE

Annotation: This interactive presentation reviews two systems tools: 1) the 5 R's method,and 2) system support mapping. Both tools represent a systems thinking framework; the presenters also shows how the frameworks can be used in a maternal and child health setting.

Learning Objectives: • Use systems thinking to clarify and strengthen your system in the time of COVID-19. • Practice using two system mapping metrics to guide conversations across stakeholders.

Annotation: Adolescence is a crucial time for changes in the brain. Investments in certain programs can make a huge developmental impact on children. This video discusses actions that decision-makers should take to optimize adolescent health and development based on two recent reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Learning Objectives: • Understand why adolescence is such a crucial time developmentally. • Identify support systems in place that foster positive developmental outcomes. • Pinpoint the inequities that affect disparities in adolescent development. • List key evidence-based recommendations for systems to support developmental outcomes

Annotation: This session is part of a three-webinar series offered by the SOC Leadership Learning Community on unique aspects for leadership in this challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since most leaders are now functioning in virtual environments, the presenter discusses considerations and specific strategies for achieving objectives using remote teams. The topics covered include assuring effective communication, achieving alignment on strategies assuring attention towards focused action maintaining clarity, and giving people hope, among others. Participants leave with information about what leaders should pay attention and what they should do when their teams are not on site and in-person interaction is not possible.

Annotation: This series is archived from the 2020 Virtual Training in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology event. This intermediate to advanced course covers statistics and epidemiologic methods in the Maternal and Child Health field. Topics covered include quality improvement analysis, propensity score analysis, needs assessments, generalized linear models, decomposition and analysis reporting.

Learning Objectives: • Outline the process of conducting a needs assessment • Explain when and how to use a generalized linear model • Understand the importance of quality improvement analysis and reporting

Annotation: This training toolkit focuses on learning opportunities and practical tools for use by the Title V workforce in understanding and implementing needs assessment, including community partnerships, data, program monitoring and evaluation, policy analysis, and principles of public health. It was developed by a collaboration of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, AMCHP, and the MCH Navigator.