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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 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: In this episode, presenters tackle the topic of redefining rest and productivity with Marissa McKool, Career and Life Coach. Marissa shares her personal wake up call on the brink of burnout, explores why we are sometimes hesitant to take time off, discusses how supervisors and managers can be more supportive of staff, the intersection of oppressive systems and thoughts on rest, and shares ideas and tips for reshaping our mindset throughout the conversation.

Learning Objectives: • Inspire and guide actions that will improve the systems that impact maternal and child health populations. • Lift up stories and people from the MCH field by centering the voices of the public health workforce, people and communities most impacted by inequities, and individuals and families with lived experiences.

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

Annotation: This webinar from the Family and Youth Services Bureau’s Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program discusses strategies for engaging youth who are involved with the child welfare system, the juvenile justice system or both (dual jacketed youth) and their needs related to sexual and reproductive health. Participants also hear from two Personal Responsibility Education Program grantees who are serving this population of youth and the strategies they have used to engage partners and youth in this work.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the experiences that shape the sexual and reproductive health behaviors and service needs of system-involved youth. • Learn best practices for recruiting and engaging system-involved youth in adolescent pregnancy prevention programming. • Learn where and how to access available sexual and reproductive health research-based resources to support system-involved youth.

Annotation: n this series of learning modules developed in collaboration with the MCH Navigator, we will discuss how the MCH Leadership Competencies — specifically those related to critical thinking (population data, critical analysis, research, epidemiology, and application of evidence-based practice guidelines) — form a supporting structure to: (1) understand the evidence base; (2) develop a plan to move from an analysis of populations needs to evidence-based/informed action steps to address those needs; and (3) use trusted tools to advance health equity within the framework of social determinants of health.

Learning Objectives: • Consider the role of a leader in identifying an issue or problem, framing it as a specific question, considering it from multiple perspectives, evaluating relevant information, and developing a reasoned resolution • Explain the process by which critical thinking informs and aids in addressing a clinical, organizational, community-based, or research challenge • Discuss how evidence-based decision making and implementation science are critical thinking skills