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 […]
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Faculty Fellow Williams to Give Talk on Expanding MCH Capacity at SUNY Old Westbury
Shameika Williams, EdD, MPH is the featured presenter at a November 15 seminar hosted by the University at Albany’s Maternal and Child Health Program. Dr. Williams is a faculty fellow with our MCH Faculty Development Fellowship Program at Diverse Institutions. One of the focuses of her talk will be her fellowship-supported work at SUNY Old […]
Center Staff and Fellows to Present at APHA 2024 Annual Meeting
The National MCH Workforce Development Center is looking forward to the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual Meeting & Expo on October 27-30 in Minneapolis, M.N. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Science.” Center staff and faculty fellows in the MCH Faculty Development Fellowship Program at Diverse […]
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, equity, 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 […]
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 Presentations at AMCHP 2023
Multiple members of the National MCH Workforce Development Center are scheduled to present at the AMCHP 2023 Conference on May 6-9 in New Orleans, LA. For more information about the schedule and the conference, please visit the AMCHP 2023 conference homepage. Practical Tools for Advancing Equity (SK1) Amy Mullenix, Oscar Fleming, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Steve […]
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 […]
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 impact of health care bias and discrimination on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and […]
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 Center as well as many other professionals throughout Title V who volunteered their […]
Maternal and Child Health Special Issue Provides Strategies to Strengthen the Workforce
A special issue of the Maternal and Child Health Journal edited in part by members of the National MCH Workforce Development Center and published with support from HRSA, is devoted to “Developing and Strengthening the Current and Future MCH Public Health Workforce: Building Capacity, Aligning Systems and Addressing Emerging Challenges.” The issue covers a wide […]