On February 9-12, we hosted our largest-ever Learning Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina! This year’s four-day learning event brought together 46 participants from Title V teams who are working to improve public health systems for mothers, children, and their families across the United States. Each Title V team participated in skill-building workshops and worked […]
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Supporting Title V State Action Plans, MCH Career Pathways at AMCHP 2026
We had a great time at the March 7-10 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Conference in Washington D.C.! This conference is always one of the highlights of the year for us. We’re passionate about offering sessions that teach skills and provide practical tools to help Title V states and jurisdictions strategically move […]
Fleming Collaborates, Rethinks Rural Street Medicine in NC
W. Oscar Fleming, DrPH, MSPH — a member of the National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Workforce Development Center team — is featured in an Innovate Carolina article highlighting a collaborative effort to redesign street medicine for rural communities in Burke County, North Carolina. The project focuses on adapting street medicine models, which are more commonly implemented […]
Applications Now Open: Grow Your Title V Impact Through Strategic Partnerships!
The National MCH Workforce Development Center is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Skills Institute, to be held on August 4-6 in Tempe, Arizona! The theme is “Growing Your Title V Impact Through Strategic Partnerships.” Title V programs are invited to apply with a team of 3-5 individuals. Teams may […]
MCH Workforce Center to Celebrate “The Power of Connection” at AMCHP 2026
The National MCH Workforce Development Center is excited to share a preview of the sessions and posters we’ll be presenting at the upcoming Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Conference, scheduled for March 7-10 in Washington, D.C.! Our staff, partners, graduate student assistants, and recent internship program alumni are facilitating six skill-building and […]
Cilenti Named Associate Dean for Practice at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dorothy Cilenti, DrPH, the director of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, was named Associate Dean for Practice at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Cilenti is a clinical professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) at UNC […]
MCH Workforce Center Supporting 17 States and Jurisdictions in 2025-2026
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 […]
Title V Internship Program Supports MCH Pathways for 12th Consecutive Year
The National MCH Workforce Development Center once again had an exciting summer supporting 23 graduate and undergraduate student interns in the 2025 Title V MCH Internship Program! We matched teams of one to three interns with 10 state and jurisdictional Title V programs, and each team completed a 10-week project to support or improve the […]
Enhance Your Title V Capacity with a Team of Two MCH Interns
Enhance your agency’s capacity and nurture the next generation of MCH professionals! The National MCH Workforce Development Center is now accepting applications from state and jurisdictional agencies for the 2026 Title V MCH Internship Program. Apply to host an in-person team of two graduate/ undergraduate MCH student interns who will complete a 10-week project of […]
Title V Teams: Receive 10 Months of Support with the 2026 Learning Journey
Is your Title V team looking for a strategic path forward? We can help! The National MCH Workforce Development Center is now accepting Letters of Interest for our 10-month 2026 Learning Journey. Title V teams will receive coaching, consultation, and structured support to help you tackle a challenge of your choice and develop key workforce […]
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 the following challenges to tackle with support from the Workforce Development Center: The […]
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 around the country, and we enjoyed getting to know new faces and names! […]
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 are centered around the Hexagon Tool! About the Hexagon Tool The Hexagon Tool […]
Connect with the Center at the Title V Federal-State MCH Partnership Meeting
National MCH Workforce Development Center staff look forward to connecting with Title V staff from every state and jurisdiction during the Title V Federal-State MCH Partnership Meeting in Washington, D.C. from Sunday, October 20 through Wednesday, October 23. Center representatives are facilitating several sessions and will be available at an exhibit table throughout the week. If […]
Applications Extended: Join the 2025 Learning Journey!
The National MCH Workforce Development Center is now accepting applications for the 2025 Learning Journey! This 10-month experience supports Title V state and jurisdictional teams who want to increase their workforce capacity and address a complex health transformation challenge. The Workforce Development Center will provide learning opportunities, coaching, consultation, and other supports to help teams […]
Applications Extended: Apply To Be a Summer 2025 Title V MCH Internship Host Site
The Title V MCH Student Internship Program is now accepting applications from state and jurisdictional Title V agencies. 2025 will mark the 12th year of the internship program. Over the summer, eight to 10 teams of MCH Trainees will participate in internships with Title V programs and complete 10-week projects. Hosting a team of two […]
2024 Title V MCH Student Interns Successfully Conclude 10-Week Projects
2024 marked the 11th summer of the Title V MCH Internship Program. The program provides undergraduate and graduate maternal and child health (MCH) students — the next generation of MCH professionals — with experience working in state and jurisdictional Title V agencies. The Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Program is the only […]
Call for Letters of Interest for the 2024 Learning Journey
Are you interested in building workforce capacity in systems thinking, adaptive leadership, evidence-based decision making, and engagement? Would you like support for a team of your Title V colleagues and partners working to address a health transformation challenge in your state? Join the National MCH Workforce Development Center for an engaging and interactive Learning Journey […]
Read Our July 2023 Newsletter
The National MCH Workforce Development Center newsletter for July 2023 features a call for letters of interest to our 2024 Learning Journey, a new MCHwork module on partnering with community-based organizations, and a request for applications for AMCHP’s Leadership Lab. Click here to read the newsletter.
Read Our June 2023 Newsletter
The Center’s June 2023 newsletter features an update on where interns with the Title V MCH Internship Program have been placed this summer, a roundup of the Center at AMCHP 2023, an overview of the Center’s systems work with Minnesota during our first cohort, and more. Read more here!
Systems Thinking Transforms Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs and their Families in Minnesota
In 2014, Title V leaders from Minnesota aspired to improve the lives of children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSCHN) and their families by improving access to quality care. While exploring options to begin this work, Minnesota connected with the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center (Center) through the Cohort program (now […]
Read Our May 2023 Newsletter
The Center’s May 2023 newsletter features an update on AMCHP 2023 sessions presented by the Center, a feature on the MCHwork micro-learning series created in partnership with the MCH Navigator, and an update on the summer interns from the Title V MCH Internship Program. Read more here.
Center collaborates with Virginia Department of Health to present at the ASPPH Conference!
In March 2023, Rebecca Greenleaf and Leslie deRosset from the National MCH Workforce Development Center (Center), in collaboration with Marcus Allen and Cynthia deSa from the VA Department of Health, were honored to present “Academic-Practice Partnerships: Working Together to Enhance Opportunities for Collaboration between Academic Centers and Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs,” moderated […]
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 teams:• Grow their capacity as a Title V program to develop and implement […]