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.
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How Teams in Cohort 2022 Laid the Foundations for Population Health Improvement
During the 2022 Learning Journey and Cohort experience, teams from Alabama, Massachusetts, Texas, and West Virginia continued existing work and laid the foundations needed to create a sustainable population health approach in the years to come. Specifically, the journey aimed to help…
Coulter-Thompson Publishes on the Impact of Discrimination on LGBTQ Parents and Children in the Healthcare System
Former Center member and Equity Core co-founder Emilee Coulter-Thompson, DrPH, LMSW, has published “Health Care Bias and Discrimination Experienced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities: A Qualitative Inquiry in the United States” which examines the…
Family Engagement Workbook
This workbook was developed as a resource for Title V teams to engage with the people they serve. It was written by Becky Burns, reviewed and edited by the members of the Engagement and Equity Core of the National MCH Workforce Development…
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 HealthThe team that has formed thanks to the TA with the WDC has become a leadership tool to advance family engagement and equity in OR Title V programs

Learning Journey Participant
Oregon Health Authority Public Health DivisionI 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.
