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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: 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: 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.

Special Instructions: Registration is required. Click on "Enroll" and click on "Create an account now".

Continuing Education: 1 hour

Annotation: Kansas University Center for Public Partnerships & Research reports on efforts to use innovative mixed-methods approaches to engage and involve families and community members in a statewide needs assessment. This broad-based approach provided opportunities for hundreds if not thousands of Kansans to participate in a statewide needs assessment and to provide a unique lens on issues that helped the state develop a meaningful, responsive, strategic plan to address maternal and child health issues in the state in the coming years.

Learning Objectives: • Learn four methods used to reach traditionally unheard voices in typical data collection including: 1) electronic kiosks, 2) our tomorrows stories, 3) youth photo project, and 4) regional and interactive open houses

Annotation: The United States healthcare system does poorly compared to other developed countries on measures such as access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes. Program evaluation is one way to improve these standards. In this video, Professor Kevin Look from the University of Wisconsin shares his research on national and state healthcare policies to display how program evaluation can improve health policies and health outcomes.

Learning Objectives: • List the goals of health program evaluations • Describe why a multidisciplinary approach to program evaluations is crucial • Explain the problems with the US healthcare system • Reflect on how program evaluation can affect health outcomes

Annotation: Self-Assessment data gathered by MCH Navigator staff have shown that knowledge and self-efficacy surrounding the policy-making process is the least understood of the 12 MCH Leadership Competencies. To address this need, we have pulled together these 10 learning opportunities represent some of the most relevant and/or recent online trainings in the field and have been chosen based on their ease of access, focus, brevity, and their integration with principles necessary to advance the transformation of the MCH Block Grant. Trainings have been identified by MCH Navigator staff and further vetted by a group of MCH experts in the states and in academic settings.

Annotation: This video provides an overview of the importance, key aspects of, and how to conduct a needs assessment. By the end of this webinar, participants should be confident in their basic knowledge of what a needs assessment is and understand the process.

Learning Objectives: • Define a needs assessment • Explain why needs assessments are important • Define a need and distinguish from an asset • Outline the steps of a needs assessment

Annotation: Data from both the early childhood and K–12 sectors can help policymakers inform policy discussions and funding decisions; chart the progress of children, programs, and the state; strengthen and support the early childhood workforce; and pinpoint best practices and areas of need. Linking limited, but critical, early childhood and K–12 data can help states know whether policies and programs successfully transition children from early childhood to the classroom and get them ready for school. During the webinar hear from the Early Childhood Data Collaborative and Data Quality Campaign about how state legislators and policymakers can support the linkage and use of early childhood and K-12 data to inform policy and improve child outcomes.

Annotation: Today's public health professionals must be able to strategically consider research results, political interests, and community requests when leading program and policy work. The evidence-based public health framework is an effective model for this type of decision-making. The Evidence-Based Public Health Training Series consists of nine modules that cover core concepts, such as defining public health issues, conducting community assessments, prioritizing options, and evaluating program and policy impacts. You may take each of the modules individually and receive a certificate for each one. If you choose to complete all nine modules, you will also receive a certificate for the series as a whole. Each module consists of several videos, followed by a short quiz. You must watch the videos and take the quiz in order to pass the module. To aid in your understanding, optional activities and questions for reflection or discussion are also included with each module. You may discuss these questions in a forum with other module participants or with peers or colleagues, or you may reflect on them individually.

Special Instructions: Must create a PH Learn Link account to view.

Annotation: This learning bundle uses the CDC framework as a conceptual model to organize learning opportunities. It presents introductions to the six steps of program evaluation in short video podcasts. You can also download materials from the CDC about each step. After reviewing the introductory material, you can access additional learning opportunities to gain knowledge and skills related to each step of the framework. For additional resources this learning bundle also includes an Evaluation Toolkit developed by NCEMCH that includes an evaluation primer, a collection of key resources, and an interactive Choose-and-Use tool to assist users in finding instructions on how to conduct evaluations and examples of successful evaluations from the field.