Submit Your Best Practice Today!
AMCHP is seeking submissions of best practices in maternal and child health from around the country. Whether it’s an effective campaign to promote breastfeeding, an outstanding nurse-family partnership, or a proven early intervention program for young children, get the word out about your best practice. Contribute to AMCHP’s Innovation Station – a growing database of what is working in MCH. Best practice submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
1) Click here to download a PDF copy of the submission form.
2) When you are ready to complete and submit your application online, click here to complete the application.
Best Practices Overview
What is a Best Practice?
AMCHP defines “best practices” as a continuum of practices, programs and policies that range from emerging to promising to those that have been extensively evaluated and proven effective, i.e. best practice. A best practice could focus on the health of women, adolescents, young children, families, or children with special health care needs. Best practice focus areas include preconception care, mental health, data and assessment, financing, program and system integration, workforce development, injury prevention, emergency preparedness, family involvement, or other public health issues.
For example, a best practice may:
- Improve care coordination for children and youth with special health care needs
- Reduce lead poisoning through home visits
- Develop an interagency application process for WIC, Early Intervention and Medicaid
- Collaborate with school nurses to improve care for children with asthma
- Reduce the rate of adolescent suicide
- Promote early intervention for at-risk children
- Build linkages between health and child care systems
- Expand screening and intervention for depression in pregnant women
- Link data to address infant mortality
How are Best Practices Selected?
The Best Practices Review Panel, composed of AMCHP members, partners, and other experts in the public health field will review submissions and determine if a practice meets the designated criteria. Typically, new submissions are reviewed twice per year (winter and spring).
For more explanation of AMCHP's best practices concept, review the Common Terms & Definitions.
Why Submit?
- Share successes with your peers. Best practices will be included in the Innovation Station database and may be featured in Pulse, AMCHP’s monthly electronic newsletter.
- Receive national recognition. Your state’s innovative program could receive a special award at the AMCHP annual conference.
- Contribute to program replication. AMCHP will help facilitate peer to peer technical assistance to support program and policy replication.
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