Title V Five-Year Needs Assessment

​​To assist states or jurisdictions in preparing their assessments, AMCHP has hosted a series of virtual trainings and webinars to provide guidance on the needs assessment process. Explore the Needs Assessment Toolkit to access these and other resources. For quick links, see below: 

2019 Webinars 

• AMCHP's Five-Year Needs Assessment Training Schedule Webinars, Learning Labs and Other Resources
• AMCHP’s Needs Assessment 101 Webinar Archive (01/16/2019)
• AMCHP's Needs Assessment 102 Webinar Archive (01/29/2019)
• AMCHP's Needs Assessment 103 Webinar Archive (02/11/2019)
• Youth and Young Adult Engagement in the Title V Needs Assessment (in partnership with the Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center)
  
  
  

2014 Webinars

Title V Five-Year Needs Assessment Webinar

This training provided an overview of the needs assessment process with a presentation from Donna Petersen, ScD, MHS, CPH, Dean for the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida. Dr. Petersen presented on the "Nuts and Bolts of the Five Year Needs Assessment," followed by a state-in-action example from Massachusetts. The Massachusetts MCH team shared their strategies, resources and lessons learned from conducting the five-year needs assessment process.

Resources

• Title V Needs Assessment Webinar Participant Pre-work
• Title V Needs Assessment Webinar Slides
• MCH Navigator Title V Needs Assessment Resource List
• Massachusetts Resource: Title V Priority Fact Sheet
• Massachusetts Resource: Needs Assessment Components
• Massachusetts Resource: Priorities and Measures
• Massachusetts Resource: Data Inputs by Population

Nuts and Bolts of Using Data Webinar

The training featured Caroline Stampfel, MPH, currently the Associate Director, Epidemiology and Evaluation at AMCHP and formerly an MCH Lead Analyst with the Virginia Title V program, on using data in the needs assessment process. Ms. Stampfel's presentation was followed by two states-in-action profiles, Rhode Island and Alaska, who shared their data strategies, resources and lessons learned from conducting the five-year needs assessment process. 

Resources

• Title V Needs Assessment on the Nuts and Bolts of Using Data Slides
• Alaska Resource: SWOT Analysis
• Alaska Resource: Birth Outcomes
• Alaska Resource: Needs Assessment Fact Sheet
• Alaska Resource: Focus on Infants (Birth to 1)
• Alaska Resource: State Priorities
• Rhode Island Resource: Community Organization Survey
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 Title V Needs Assessment Summary
• Rhode Island Resource: Community Member Survey
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Early Childhood
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Middle Childhood
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Adolescence
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Pregnant Women
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Special Health Care Needs
• Rhode Island Resource: FY 11 MCH Fact Sheet Women Through the Life Course

This training featured provided strategies on how to orient stakeholders with start and end goals. The webinar also provided state-in-action examples from Oregon, Wisconsin and Wyoming about their strategies for stakeholder engagements, such as how to engage your local nonprofit hospitals and use its community health assessment to contribute to the needs assessment process that is now mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

Resources

• Stampfel_Stakeholder Engagement NA Final.pdf
• OR Stakeholder Engagement NA.pdf
• WI Stakeholder engagement_AMCHP_Final.pdf
• Wisconsin MCH NPM Prioritization Matrix.docx
• WY Stakeholder Engagement NA (Tribal Engagement).pdf

Children and Youth With Special Healthcare Needs Engagement Resources

• December 2014 LICD webinar Strategies and Tips for Using the National Standards for CYSHCN in Title V Needs Assessments http://amchp.adobeconnect.com/p317wl44572/ (27:30-32:50)
• CYSHCN Standards Presentation Tool Slides (Standards Presentation Slides )
• CYSHCN Standards Presentation Tool Slides (directions)

Identifying State Priority Needs Webinar

The State Priority needs webinar served as an excellent opportunity for participants to hear from their peers on how they conducted their needs assessments in their Title V programs. On this webinar, participants heard firsthand from Kansas and New Mexico, who shared their strategies for identifying priorities in their CYSHCN and Title V programs, resources, and lessons learned from aligning their priorities to both the eight National Performance Measures as well as selecting State Performance Measures.​​​

Resources

• AMCHP Needs Assessment Webinar Part 4.pdf
• Kansas Communities4Kids Meeting Package.pdf
• Kansas AMCHP Compendium Regional Meetings.pdf
• Colorado MCH NA Results Summary 2016.pdf
• ​Louisiana Title V Criteria for Group Discussions.docx