Explore the Collective Impact Forum’s Advancing Equity Archive. The archive includes a collection of resources and materials that allow collective impact initiatives to prioritize equity. The resources include webinars, podcast episodes, trainings and more. Examples of some of the resources include:
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MCHwork: Successful Engagement with People with Lived Experience
People with lived experience (PWLE) are regarded as “experts by experience” in the scope of their first-hand experience. PWLE have lived (or are currently living) with issues the community is focusing on and who can offer insight about the system as it is experienced by others. Watch these three videos from the National MCH Workforce Development […]
MCHwork: Making Equity-Informed Choices
Implementation science starts by understanding how programs and practices work based on past experience, either from the field, science-based studies, expert opinion, or consensus and then identifying ways to replicate these processes in new settings, at larger scale, or with different populations to achieve similar, positive outcomes. Watch this introductory video from the WDC to […]
Family Engagement in Systems Assessment (FESAT) Tool
A 20-item self-assessment tool that organizational staff and families use together to assess family engagement in policies, programs, and other systems-level initiatives.
Successful Engagement With People Who Have Lived Experiences
This workbook was developed as a resource for Title V teams to engage with the people they serve. It was written by Becky Burns, MSSW, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, 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 […]
Collective Impact Principles of Practice
What does it take for a collective impact initiative to succeed and reach population-level change? The field is familiar with the five conditions of collective impact, but what are the other necessary components needed for an initiative to reach its goal? Informed by lessons shared among practitioners who are implementing collective impact in the field, […]
Strategies for Promoting Health Equity in Your State
A well-trained MCH workforce is critical to meet the public health challenges of the future and improve health and equity outcomes among MCH populations. A commonly asked question across states is “What strategic steps can we take to advance health equity at our health department?” 1 In response to this need in the field the MCH […]
Diversity and Health Equity Training Spotlight
Georgetown University’s MCH Navigator, the National Maternal and Child Workforce Development Center, and the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health are pleased to present this spotlight of online trainings and resources for use by the Title V workforce in approaching diversity as a way to address health disparities, health equity, and removing […]