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Collaborating to improve MCH Outcomes
The Value of Title V Programs as Collaborators and Partners
The challenges Maternal and Child Health agencies are working to address are often complex and intersectional requiring collaborations across various sectors and agencies. Collaborations can break down siloes and advance common goals. Title V agencies are critical partners and often leaders of multi-sector collaborations.
The value of Title V programs as leaders, collaborators, and partners is demonstrated through the various resources on this webpage.
The Power of Prevention
This issue brief,
The Power of Prevention for Mothers and Children: The Cost Effectiveness of Maternal and Child Health Interventions reviews economic analyses of maternal and child health intervnetions and the role of Title V in these interventions.
Family Stories
 The following are three family stories regarding the value and impact of partnering with Title V. One from the perspective of a dad caring for his son with special health care needs, another from a mom who shares her success in working with a doula, and the third from a youth who shares her journey to public health advocacy
ROI Modules
The Return on Investment (ROI) modules are a training curriculum designed to help MCH professionals understand and calculate economic investments. This curriculum can help Title V programs demonstrate the value of investing in MCH.
Module #1: Return on Investment (ROI) & Prevention Economics
Module #2: Critical Cross-Cutting Concepts Module #3: Overview of Program Cost and Benefit Considerations
Module #4: Course Review
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Measuring Collaboration Tip Sheets
These resources will assist users in understanding and applying a definition of collaboration and tools and resources for measurement of collaboration and effective and successful partnerships. These tip sheets provide a follow-up to the 3 part interactive webinar series that featured collaboration science and measurement as well as practical examples of implementation in MCH settings. These fact sheets are brief descriptions of the measurement tools that can serve as reference tools for MCH professionals.
Overview of Collaboration Science Frameworks
Collaboration Case Studies
The collaboration case studies provide a deeper dive into some of the partnerships and collaborations that Title V agencies are engaged in to move the needle. The case studies include strategies and tips for action.
Collaborations & Partnerships Webinar Series
I. Collaboration Science and Measurement Webinar Series: This webinar series provides an overview of collaboration science and collaboration measurement tools and provides the basis for thecollaboration measurement tip sheet series. November 2018: Overview of Collaboration Science: Collaboration Science and Measurement January 2019: Tools for Measuring How We Work Together: Using the Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory and other tools to measure collaboration, materials include: webinar slides and Wilder Collaborations Factor Inventory April 2019: Tools for Measuring Partnerships: Using Social Network Analysis and the PARTNER Tool and the Person-Centered Network App to measure social connectedness, trust, and leveraging of resources. II. Collaboration and Partnership Webinar Series: The other webinar series is part of AMCHP’s
ongoing work to equip MCH programs and
partners with effective strategies and proven practices for collaborating.
Title V programs partner with a range of federal, state and local entities to
further supplement the capacity of state agencies in meeting the needs of its
MCH population, including CSHCN.
October 3, 2018 – Partnerships & Collaborations: An Open Forum This webinar provided an open forum to gather information from our members and stakeholders to see what information they would find most valuable. Receiving their input about how AMCHP can create content most useful for them informed the collaboration series. November 2018 – Moving Down the Pyramid: A Title V Perspective This webinar included an overview of the evolution of multiple recommendations for the provision of direct services by public health agencies. Three Title V CYSHCN directors also shared their experiences implementing population health strategies in their programs, and a representative of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, Dr. Stephen Orton, led a skills development activity.
December 2018 – Collaboration Laboratory:
Partnering with families, communities, and local health departments This webinar included expert speakers who shared
their perspectives from engaging with MCH programs as family leaders, community
health workers, and local health departments.
February
14, 2019 - Strengthening
Partnerships: Equipping MCH Programs with Accountability Strategies: Collaboration Laboratory Series; This
webinar focused on the importance of fostering a strong relationship between
MCH, CYSHCN, and other related programs within a state. This webinar included
expert speakers from the West Virginia Office of Maternal, Child, and Family
Health who shared their perspectives on how these relationships can be
beneficial for Title V Block Grant activities, including the upcoming Needs
Assessment, secession planning, and defining mutual objectives with state
Medicaid agencies. AMCHP introduced and walked through the National Standards Partnership
Assessment & Relationship Profile, a tool developed to identify
strengths and areas of needed growth across partners serving MCH populations.
December 17, 2019 – From Data to Action: Using and Translating Needs Assessment Data This webinar highlighted strategies for how to use and translate data from the
Title V Needs Assessment into action, with a specific framing around
disparities. This webinar included expert speakers who discussed the following
innovative Needs Assessment strategies, with a wrap-up discussion provided by
AMCHP’s Cheryl Clark.
April 23, 2020 - An Open Forum: Drawing on Our Strengths to Respond to COVID-19. This webinar featured a panel of experts in an open-forum discussion on the strengths and challenges impacted individuals are currently facing in the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversation focused on exploring the impact of this pandemic on our way of life and how Title V MCH programs can work together with impacted leaders to take steps towards creating meaningful relationships and change across systems. For a summary of the discussion click here.
November, 19, 2020 - Better Vision, Brighter Future: The Role for Vision in Lifelong Health. This webinar was done in collaboration with the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness and provided an overview of the role that vision plays in children’s health, development, early literacy skills, academic achievement, and lifelong health outcomes. The webinar described evidence-based resources and guidelines for a comprehensive vision and eye health system.
Legacies in Leadership Video Series
Brent Ewig, former AMCHP Director of Policy and Government Affairs
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Nan Streeter, former Utah Title V Director
The full interview can be found
here.
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Debbie Klein-Walker, former Massachusetts Title V Director
The full interview can be found
here.
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Sam Cooper, former Texas Title V Director & AMCHP Past President
The full interview can be found
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Kathy Peppe, former Ohio Title V Director & AMCHP Past President
The full interview can be found
here.
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Sally Fogerty, former Massachusetts Title V Director
The full interview can be found
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Millie Jones, former Wisconsin MCH Director Stephanie Birch, former Alaska MCH Director The full interview can be found here. The full interview can be found here.
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