The National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Workforce Development Center is excited to announce that we have launched the 2026 Learning Journey with 11 Title V teams! We are also currently supporting six states through Customized Engagements, for a total of 17 states and jurisdictions.
States and Jurisdictions Participating in the 2026 Learning Journey and Customized Engagements
2026 Learning Journey Provides Structured Support for Title V Teams
Eleven Title V teams have joined the 2026 Learning Journey, which launched in October 2025 and will wrap up in August 2026. The goal of the Learning Journey is to help each team improve their workforce capacity while supporting them in tackling a complex challenge of the team’s choice. This year, teams are building capacity while navigating the following challenges:
- Creating a strategic plan to reduce maternal syphilis and syphilis transmission
- Strengthening and/or aligning programs and services for children and youth with special healthcare needs (four teams)
- Developing a training and support center to strengthen the pediatric medical home model
- Creating a strategic plan to prevent bullying among adolescents
- Creating a strategic plan to align efforts to promote adolescent health
- Integrating engagement with individuals and communities across all Title V population domains
- Strengthening internal alignment and infrastructure for Title V activities
- Operationalizing the state’s 2026-2030 Title V State Action Plan
The Learning Journey is a structured, 10-month program of coaching, training, and consultation. Teams will participate in:
- Ongoing coaching with a dedicated coach who has years of experience working with MCH professionals.
- A Systems Exploration Workshop that helps teams do a deep dive with key partners to explore their challenge.
- A multi-day Learning Institute and additional skill-building workshops in change management, adaptive leadership, systems thinking, evidence-based decision making, and family and community engagement.
- A co-designed in-state consultation with a team of Center experts.
- A final peer-learning webinar that helps teams transition their focus to sustaining and amplifying their health transformation work.
Customized Engagements Offer Flexible Support for Additional Title V Teams
The Workforce Development Center is also currently supporting seven Title V teams from six states through Customized Engagements. For state teams who want a more flexible approach than the Learning Journey, or who want support on a different schedule or timeframe, we provide customized programs of coaching, consultation, and/or training, designed to help each team meet their specific needs.
Currently, we are supporting teams to:
- Promote the medical home model across MCH population domains
- Build capacity in systems thinking approaches to support efforts to promote housing stability
- Create an evaluation plan for family engagement efforts
- Develop a state adolescent health plan and youth advisory board
- Create a plan to enhance care coordination for children and youth with special health care needs
- Build a more effective and responsive system of care for children and youth with special healthcare needs
- Conduct a landscape analysis to assess current activities and potential for impact in response to the state’s recent Needs Assessment
We look forward to supporting these teams to address complex challenges and improve maternal and child health outcomes in their states and jurisdictions!