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 […]
Jessica Simon
Systems Strengthening Toolkit
Technical workforce skills and evidence-based strategies are not necessarily sufficient to move the needle on maternal and child health outcomes; contextual factors such as challenging political environments, lack of leadership support, funding insufficiency, staff turnover, and historically inequitable programs and outcomes also influence Title V’s ability to have an impact. These systems thinking and mapping tools provide […]
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 […]