September 10, 2024 A Title V team from Puerto Rico participated in our 2022 Learning Journey. This follow-up report details the team’s accomplishments 18 months after their participation. Puerto Rico’s Learning Journey Puerto Rico’s team began their Learning Journey with the Center to identify the steps needed to advance their family engagement goals. With the […]
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Change Management and Adaptive Leadership Toolkit
Change management and adaptive leadership tools help you lead and manage change. They focus on engaging people and improving team processes and outcomes. Transformation requires teams to function at a high level. These tools connect teams to their aspirations, help make space for key voices and perspectives, encourage learning and innovation, and help you make […]
Developing MCH Leadership and Cross-Sector Partnerships Sparks Innovation and Transformational Change in Indiana
September 10, 2024 A Title V team from Indiana participated in our 2022 Learning Journey. This follow-up report details the team’s accomplishments 18 months after their participation. Indiana’s Learning Journey The Indiana team entered the Learning Journey program to develop a more cohesive, strategic, and innovative MCH Division and Department of Health. When interviewed six […]
Building a Workforce Development Office to Strengthen MCH Services in Mississippi (2024)
September 10, 2024 A Title V team from Mississippi participated in our 2022 Learning Journey. This follow-up report details the team’s accomplishments 18 months after their participation. Mississippi’s Learning Journey Mississippi’s team engaged with the National MCH Workforce Development Center to strengthen the new Title V MCH Workforce Development Office (now called the MCH Engagement and Coordination Office, […]
Systems thinking transforms care coordination for Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs and their families in Minnesota
Building Capacity to Respond to Emerging Public Health Needs in Virginia
Changing Culture in Tennessee’s Division of Family Health and Wellness through Communication, Onboarding, and Recognition
Building a Workforce Development Office to Strengthen MCH Services in Mississippi (2023)
Engaging Families: The Journey in Puerto Rico
Strengthening the System Supporting Perinatal People with Substance Use Disorder in the Midwest Using Group Model Building
This article describes our work in 2022 with a regional collaborative focused on evidence-based care to pregnant women with substance use disorders. Abstract Introduction Providing comprehensive, evidence-based care to perinatal people with substance use disorders (SUD) requires multi-stakeholder collaboration and alignment. The National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center facilitated a system-strengthening process with […]
Building a More Cohesive, Strategic, and Innovative Department of Health to Meet the Needs of MCH Populations in Indiana
Core Conversations
Core Conversations is a team start-up tool designed expressly for teams working across boundaries. It is meant to allow each member of a team to express their boundaries, their capacity, their strengths, their aspirations and their concerns.
Adaptive Leadership Resources
Adaptive Leadership is an essential concept for MCH leaders to understand. We also recommend the use of strengths-based leadership approaches including Collaborative Leadership, Servant Leadership, and Appreciative Inquiry. View the module on the MCH Navigator.
Evidence-Based Decision Making: Active Implementation Stages
Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Brief Introduction
5 R’s
The 5 R’s is a conversation guide that can help you see the “big picture” system you are trying to change. The guide prompts discussion about aspects of the system, including: results (what success looks like), roles, resources to support change, and rules and relationships that must be understood or changed to improve outcomes.
System Support Mapping in Five Minutes
Developing State Leadership in Maternal and Child Health: Best Practices from the National MCH Workforce Development Center
This report describes the Center’s Cohort Program and lessons the Center has learned about effective ways to improve “collaborative” or “shared” leadership skills in MCH. It describes how the Cohort Program effectively merges a practical skill-based curriculum, work-based learning in teams, and coaching. Participants reported that these dimensions were helpful to their skill development and […]