State Tools & Resources 

Resources

• CityMatCH MCH Life Course Toolbox - The MCH Life Course Toolbox is an online resource for MCH researchers, academics, practitioners, policy advocates and others in the field to share information, innovative strategies and tools to integrate the Life Course Perspective into MCH work at the local, state and national levels. 
•  Moving the Life Course Work Forward: Recommendations from the Life Course Town Hall Meetings - This publication, commissioned by CityMatCH and AMCHP, includes key life course themes and recommendations, as well as information about creating a common language around life course, establishing a shared outcomes framework, designing educational strategies, establishing learning communities and identifying funding strategies.
•  Turning the Ship: Making the Shift to a Life Course Framework - Life course session from the 2012 AMCHP Annual Conference
•  Job Opportunity Template, Director of Lifecourse Health Systems (shared by the Indiana State Department of Health)
• Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Life Course Perspective - This website contains resources that are intended to introduce and reinforce life course theory. They have been designed and organized by an interdisciplinary work group of leadership training programs.
• Life Course Dialogue: Exploring State Level Implementation - This skills-buildling session was held at the 2012 AMCHP Annual Conference. The recordings and PowerPoint slides are available on HRSA's MCHB Conference Webcasts site.

Life Course Stories

 Rhode Island -  YouTube video of AMCHP's interview with Ana Novais, Executive Director, Division of Community, Family Health & Equity, Rhode Island Department of Health, to tell us about her state's successes around the Life Course.

Educational Tools

Prenatal Care* 

•  Childhood Obesity Starts with Mom: California Pre-pregnancy and Pregnancy Weight [2010]
•  Childhood Obesity Starts with Mom: Local California Efforts in the Perinatal Period to Address Obesity Prevention [2010]
•  Black Infant Health Program: Transforming African American Women & Their Communities to Improve Health [2011]
•  Incorporating Life Course, Social Determinants, and Health Equity into California’s MCAH Programs [2010]
•  IOM Committee on Preventive Services for Women: Comprehensive Prenatal Care [2011]

*Provided by the California Department of Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Division (CDPH/MCAH) - CDPH/MCAH fully supports the construct of social determinants of health as a means to reduce health disparities. Social conditions such as poverty, lack of social support, racial discrimination and other sources of stress are considered by many experts play an important role in health including birth outcomes. These social, economic, and racial stresses may occur not only during pregnancy but also across a women's entire lifespan, potentially affecting subsequent generations.

Preconception Health*

•  Provider Instructions for Completing the Prenatal Screen
•  Infant Risk Screen [v.2004]
•  Good Health Matters Quiz [v.2005]
•  Healthy Behaviors (Every Woman Florida)
•  Healthy Mind and Heart (Every Woman Florida)
•  Your Next Pregnancy (Every Woman Florida)
•  Patient Health Quiz
•  Preconception Screening and Counseling Checklist 
•  Healthy Behaviors Survey [v.2003]

*Provided by the Florida Department of Health, Infant, Maternal and Reproductive Health Unit

Young Adults*

• Tune into Life Course Health for Providers: Resources*
• The TUNE Project* - Helping youth use music to fuel them to reach their goals. This site also provides information for young adults about healthy living.
•  Tune My Life: Life Course Health Plan* [Rev. 2011]
• The Lifespan Transitions Center at OCALI, Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence

*Provided by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, First Time Motherhood/New Parents Initiative

Health Equity*

•  Health Equity Pyramid definitions [2011]
•  Health Equity Pyramid [2011]
•  Health Equity Grant Checklist [2011]
•  Equity Booklet (by program area within the division) [2012]

*Provided by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Division of Community, Family Health and Equity 

Please contact Kate Howe, Program Manager for Child Health, if you are interested in submitting a resource to the State Life Course Resource Center.