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National MCH Workforce Development Center

Customized workforce development for Title V agencies tackling health transformation challenges

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    • Change Management & Adaptive Leadership
    • Evidence-Based Decision Making & Implementation
    • Systems Integration
    • Equity & Engagement with People with Lived Experience
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Areas of Focus

Change Management/Adaptive Leadership

Training and supplementary applied workforce development in five areas: adaptive leadership; authentic leadership; workforce development leadership; leading teams; and population health and finance transformation.

Tools apply change management skills to real-world challenges, using individual and peer coaching in conjunction with topical trainings to ensure effective uptake of change principles.

Evidence-Based Decision Making

Evidence provides the foundation for effective health transformation.

Integrate and optimize evidence-based decision making practices through real-world applications and content aligned with the team’s progress on their challenge. EBDM trainings help Title V leaders and staff design, deliver, and improve selected evidence based interventions.

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Systems Integration

Systems thinking tools to support collective impact. Systems Integration training considers avenues for cooperation and integration for MCH professionals within and outside Title V agencies.

Tools such as systems thinking, mapping, and improvement methods help Title V professionals build expertise for cross-sector collaboration.

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Systems Integration Knowledge Tools

The Center developed these resources with the knowledge that technical workforce skills and evidence-based strategies are not necessarily sufficient to move the needle on outcomes; contextual factors such as challenging political environments, lack of leadership support, funding insufficiency, lack of focus, and historically inequitable programs and outcomes also influence Title V’s ability to have an impact. The NPM Skills Documents serve as a resource for addressing these contextual factors with robust workforce capacity.

TitleTypeLevelLengthFormatTopicNational MCH WDC Developed
Five-Minute Video: Causal Loop DiagramsPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoCausal Loop DiagrammingYes
Five-Minute Video: Circle of CarePrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoCircle of CareYes
Five-Minute Video: Concept MappingPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoConcept MappingYes
Five-Minute Video: Five RsPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoFive RsYes
Five-Minute Video: Network MappingPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoNetwork MappingYes
Five-Minute Video: Process Flow DiagrammingPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoProcess Flow DiagrammingYes
Five-Minute Video: SimulationPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoSimulationYes
Five-Minute Video: System Support MappingPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoSystem Support MappingYes
Five-Minute Video: Whole System MappingPrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoWhole System MappingYes
Systems Thinking Tools and Principles for Collaboration and Problem-SolvingPrimersBeginner15 minutesTextSystems ThinkingYes
Finding Leverage –The Power of Systems Thinking with Chris Soderquist PrimersBeginner5 minutesVideoSystems ThinkingYes
Pipeline Course #1: SystemsCoursesBeginner30 minutesVideoSystems ThinkingYes
Pipeline Course #2: System BehaviorCoursesBeginner30 minutesVideoSystems ThinkingYes
Pipeline Course #3: Causal Loop DiagrammingCoursesBeginner30 minutesVideoCausal Loop DiagrammingYes
Pipeline Course #4: Leverage Points and System ChangeCoursesBeginner30 minutesVideoSystems ThinkingYes
Pipeline Course #5: Advanced Systems ChangeCoursesBeginner30 minutesVideoSystems ThinkingYes
How to Use Vensim for Causal Loop DiagrammingToolsBeginner10 minutesVideoCausal Loop DiagrammingYes
Vensim (free)ToolsExpertN/AProgramCausal Loop Diagramming, Stock and Flow DiagrammingNo
Health Impact AssessmentsPrimersBeginner20 minutesVideoHealth Impact AssessmentsYes
Network Analysis in MCH PracticePrimersBeginner30 minutesTextNetwork MappingYes
Family Engagement in Systems Assessment Tool (FESAT)ToolsBeginnerN/AToolkitSystems ThinkingNo (Family Voices)

Tools

System Support Mapper

The MCH System Support Mapper is an online interactive software tool for diagramming roles, responsibilities, needs, resources, and desires, and the relationships between them. Instructions to use the tool are available for download: System Support Maps_instructions_2015-04-17-2

Skills to Support the National Performance Measures

The Title V National Performance Measures (NPMs) guide MCH work and are integral to the Title V Block Grant. The National MCH Workforce Development Center developed skills and knowledge recommendations for the 15 NPMs (NPM 1, NPM 2, NPM 3, NPM 4, NPM 5, NPM 6, NPM 7, NPM 8, NPM 9, NPM 10, NPM 11, NPM 12, NPM 13, NPM 14, NPM 15) and one set of foundational skills needed for all measures.

Equity and Engagement with People with Lived Experiences Core

The National MCH Workforce Development Center provides assistance for Title V agencies wishing to incorporate equity into the planning and execution of their health transformation partnerships.

In addition, the Center Equity and Engagement with People of Lived Experience Core has partnered with MCH Navigator to make available trainings and resources to strengthen health equity efforts across Title V.

Equity Resources at MCH Navigator

Diversity and Health Equity Training Spotlight

Strategies for Promoting Health Equity in Your State

Heath Equity Resources

Other Resources

AMCHP Pulse Issue on Social Justice and Equity

Collective Impact Forum’s Principles of Practice

Engagement with People with Lived Experiences

The Center provides training and resources for Title V agencies and partners to help engage and recruit family representatives to assist in designing and implementing solutions to healthcare transformation challenges.

Engagement Resources

MCH Navigator

The Center and MCH Navigator partnership provides training and other resources to Title V professionals.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Family Involvement

HRSA information center for news, information, and resources about family engagement at the Bureau and partner agencies.

AMCHP Family Engagement and Leadership

AMCHP provides surveys, case studies, and a list of resources for states and family members involved in maternal and child health family engagement.

Catalyst Center

The Catalyst Center is a national center dedicated to improving health care coverage and financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN).

Family Voices

Family Voices is a national, nonprofit, family-led organization promoting quality health care for all children and youth, particularly those with special health care needs.

Partner With Us

Engagements include an 8-month coach-supported cohort experience, customized short-term partnerships, and an internship program that matches agencies with students interested in Title V experience.

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Contact

Department of Maternal and Child Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 7445
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7445
Phone: 919-966-6290
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About this Project

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number 5-UE7-MC26282-10 – National MCH Workforce Development Center Cooperative Agreement ($1,720,000). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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