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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 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 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 interactive, one-hour, online course covers the basics of public health ethics and teaches strategies for making ethical decisions for situations that commonly arise in public health practice. You will explore the content of the American Public Health Association Public Health Code of Ethics (2019) and learn how to apply it and other tools to case studies.

Learning Objectives: • Summarize the key differences between the ethical approaches of the clinical and public health professions. • Define the core values of public health. • Describe the APHA Public Health Code of Ethics’ considerations and their application to decision-making. • Consider different theoretical perspectives to apply to ethical dilemmas. • Use an eight-step procedure to critically consider ethical issues in public health practice.

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: In this Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast, staff from New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia Medicaid, and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, discuss ways states are working to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, specifically the significant disparity experienced by black women. Learn how data dashboards, mandatory perinatal assessments, expansion of coverage to include home visiting and doulas, and shared messaging to the community are showing promising outcomes. The conversation is moderated by Gretchen Hammer, senior strategic advisor to the National Association of Medicaid Directors, with insights from Mark Larson, senior vice president of leadership and capacity building, Center for Health Care Strategies.

Special Instructions: DataSpeak uses a number of different technologies. To get the most out of the information, please review the technical requirements at http://hrsa.gov/archive/mchb/dataspeak/techreq/index.html

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: A psychiatrist who focuses on erasing the stigma of mental health care in the Black community. A hospital executive who tackles emergency preparedness through an equity lens. A nonprofit founder who travels the world to bring neurodiagnostic training to the Global South. These are among the new leaders defining the future of public health. COVID-19 thrust the field into the spotlight, sending applications to schools of public health soaring. The future leaders emerging from the pandemic share a powerful conviction that they can forge a more equitable future, with health, dignity, and justice for all. In this webinar, the panel explores the challenges and joys of pursuing that work with several Harvard Chan students and recent alumni.

Learning Objectives: • Explore how COVID-19 is affecting the future of public health • Discuss how health equity and justice will impact the future of public health • Learn from a variety of public health professionals about the challenges and strengths of pursuing a career in public health

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: In partnership with the Medical Mediation Foundation, this presentation considers ways of anticipating, understanding and dealing with patient or colleague conflict before it escalates.

Learning Objectives: • Recognizing the warning signs of conflict • Understanding why conflict occurs • Learning the mediation process and what it can offer