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Annotation: In this video series from the FrameWorks Institute, presenters explain how specific framing techniques can help you navigate some of the trickiest communication challenges. This series is designed to help communicators navigate some of the toughest framing challenges in today’s complex communications landscape, particularly when discussing health equity in rural areas. The initial episodes focus on communicating about health and health disparities, offering insights into framing with the shared value of dignity, fostering systemic thinking about health, and expanding the understanding of what health truly encompasses. Title V programs implementing the Blueprint for Change may find these insights valuable in advancing your efforts. In each Explain the Frame episode, presenters walk you through a common framing challenge, present a framing technique to help you navigate it, and explain how the framing works in practice. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Learn recommendations on how to communicate about health issues that affect some groups more than others. • Review research on how to paint a fuller, bigger picture of health.

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: In the times we live in, we are constantly facing all sorts of emergencies and preparedness is essential to keep families safe and promote health and wellbeing in challenging situations. In this episode, presenters explore how Tennessee has intentionally centered communities of color in response efforts and learn about Puerto Rico’s experience facing emergencies like Zika, Hurricane Maria, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Objectives: This webinar series aims to: • 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: The MCH Essentials Series is a continuously refreshed collection of MCH topics, accessible anytime and from anywhere, covering content that is foundational for effective and equitable leadership across roles and settings. Topics range from MCH history to youth engagement. The MCH Essentials Series is for current and aspiring MCH professionals from all disciplines (including youth and families) and levels of leadership. Content is designed to meet a wide range of knowledge and skill development needs. Each topic presents content via narrated and interactive slide presentations, or AMCHP webinars that have been trimmed or otherwise adapted to support adult learning. Topics cover between 20 to 70 minutes of content and include additional resources.

Learning Objectives: Expand knowledge in the following areas: • Understanding MCH History and Systems for Transformative Leadership • Racially Just and Equitable Leadership • Racism as a Root Cause of Birth Disparities • Cultural Competency • Youth Empowerment • Life Course Perspective • Climate Justice • Evidence and Equity • Using Data to Inform MCH Programs • Return on Investment in MCH

Annotation: Men have great potential to proactively support and improve maternal health. This webinar includes an expert panel of male maternal health advocates as they provide concrete examples of male engagement in pregnancy and postpartum support, including challenges and inspiring successes.

Learning Objectives: • Explore co-parent coaching services • Learn about the "On My Shoulders" fatherhood curriculum • Describe community fatherhood mobilization strategies

Annotation: This video is tailored towards those who are new to the field of health literacy. Covered in this video is an introduction to health literacy, an explanation of what plays into health literacy based on researched findings, and a discussion about the relationship between health equity and health literacy.

Learning Objectives: • Define health literacy. • Understand the factors that contribute to health literacy. • Reflect on how health equity and health literacy are interconnected.

Annotation: In this webinar, authors discuss their article titled Improving Health Care Transitions for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Speakers highlight the health care transition process for adolescents and young adults with special health care needs, describe study findings, and reflect on the implications of their recommendations.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the health care transition process for adolescents and young adults with special health care needs. • Explore the study findings and implications of results from the presented article: Improving Health Care Transitions for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs.

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 webinar explores (1) a national initiative bringing together public health stakeholders to systematically implement and sustain social determinants of health efforts; (2) an innovative federal model testing whether addressing health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries improves outcomes; and (3) how a health plan is partnering with social workers to help patients with housing, transportation, utilities and more. In addition to the webinar video, an agenda, speaker biographies, and presentation slides are available.

Annotation: Social determinants of health are defined by the World Health Organization as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age". For rural populations, many of these elements are less favorable than within urban areas. Building on work conducted by the Rural and Minority Health Research Center, this presentation reviews some of the key elements associated with health across rural White and minority populations, such as education, income, and health facility availability.

Learning Objectives: • Learn to define key terms around SDOH and rural ameria • Describe rural disparities • Understand how to plan a way forward