
Helping MCH Title V leaders
tackle complex challenges through training, collaborative learning, coaching, and consultation.
Founded in 2014, the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center helps MCH Title V leaders and their partners tackle complex challenges through training, collaborative learning, coaching, and consultation. Funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Center is housed in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Learn more about us.
News
Five Title V teams take on health transformation challenges in the 2025 Learning Journey
The National MCH Workforce Development Center is excited to announce that five Title V teams are participating in our 2025 Learning Journey. The teams are from Title V agencies in Hawai‘i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Washington. Taking on Health Transformation This year’s teams have selected…
Center’s AMCHP 2025 sessions help Title V agencies select priorities and assess capacity
The National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Workforce Development Center was excited to attend the 2025 Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) conference in Washington, D.C. on March 15-18! We reconnected with Title V staff and other MCH professionals from…
Use the Hexagon Tool to Enhance Your Title V Needs Assessment
Ready to move from assessment to action in your Title V Needs Assessment process? The Hexagon Tool can help! In 2024, we published three new sessions in MCHwork, our series of microlearning sessions for busy professionals. All three of this year’s sessions…
Our Partners are Saying
We can make a big difference for our Title V partners
Everything that has been offered has been wonderful. As the MCH Workforce Development Office in Mississippi grows and expands, we will be using the various tools in meetings with other departments, providing support to them, offering to train them in the use of the tools, and grow with staff capacity.

Learning Journey Participant
Mississippi State Department of HealthWe planned and strategized more deeply as a team because we had a framework and tools by which to do that. […] When we’re mapping our networks really intentionally and thinking about where we have power and influence, I think we are able to plan more deeply and more effectively.

Learning Journey Participant
Indiana Department of HealthI loved how our coach guided us and provided feedback only when we needed it or when we were unsure how to proceed to the next step. Otherwise, she allowed us to plan and find our own way and make our own decisions. Instead of directing efforts, she was simply a mutual, equal member of our team.
