Welcome to the MCH Innovations Database, is a searchable repository of “what’s working” in MCH (aka practice-based evidence) which includes effective practices and policies from the field that are positively impacting MCH populations. Practices are assessed along a continuum and receive a designation of Cutting-Edge, Emerging, Promising, or Best depending on their work’s demonstrated impact, among other criteria. Policies are assessed against a rubric and then given a designation of Evidence-Informed Policy Development, Policy Implementation, or Policy Evaluation.
For additional MCH specific evidence-based/informed strategies, check out the MCHbest Database which summarizes the science of what works from the peer-reviewed literature.
Cutting-Edge Practice
New York State Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination and Pregnancy Media Campaign
The New York State Department of Health’s Division of Family Health developed the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination and Pregnancy Media Campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccinations to protect pregnant women, women planning to become pregnant, and breastfeeding women or women in the postpartum period against severe outcomes from COVID-19.
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Howell County Women’s Health Services Program
The Howell County Health Department is a subrecipient of Title V MCH Block Grant funding from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Maternal Child Health (MCH) contract, with the purpose to support a leadership role within the local community, building community-based systems and expanding the resources those systems have to address priority maternal child health issues.
Read MorePromising Practice
Ohio Department of Health Youth Homelessness Program
The Ohio Department of Health Youth Homelessness Program supports the work of local community organizations taking an innovative approach to serve Ohio youth experiencing homelessness. The program specifically focuses on unaccompanied homeless youth who are 14 to 24 years of age, with an emphasis on pregnant or parenting youth.
Read MoreBest Practice
The Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner Approach to Care
The Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner (COE WVP) Approach is an evidence-based, whole-child and family-centered model developed by the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) that provides digital tools to support high-quality, personalized care while streamlining collaboration across health care, home visiting, and other state and local early childhood systems.
Read MorePolicy Development, Policy Implementation
CenteringPregnancy – Medicaid Enhanced Payment for Group Prenatal Care
CenteringPregnancy - Medicaid Enhanced Payment for Group Prenatal Care is a policy focused on enhanced payment and alternative payment models for evidence-based group prenatal care. These are effective strategies for states to incentivize providers to utilize a model of care that reduces health disparities and increases birth outcomes while saving payers precious reinvestment dollars.
Read MorePolicy Development
Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force Act
This legislation creates a statewide, multidisciplinary task force to design a Family Recovery Plan (FRP) Model for substance-exposed infants and their families, as required by CAPTA-CARA federal law to develop recommendations using a public health approach for the implementation, tracking and enforcement of the FRPs, and ensure that the model focuses on the long-term needs and health outcomes of infants born with prenatal substance exposure and their caregivers.
Read MoreCutting-Edge Practice
Improve Perinatal Access Coordination and Treatment: Behavioral Health (IMPACT BH)
IMPACT BH helps communities strengthen and integrate their local perinatal behavioral health services through training, technical assistance and resources—to make sure birthing parents receive the best possible behavioral health care and support.
Read MorePromising Practice
Jenna’s Project – UNC Horizons
Jenna’s Project facilitates community-based care coordination and treatment resource provision for pregnant women re-entering the community after incarceration, with the goals of decreased rates of self-reported and verified fatal overdose and reincarceration among pregnant or postpartum women prior to incarceration and six months post-incarceration. Given that another important overdose triggering event may be a child’s removal from parental custody, care coordination also includes support for open Child Protective Service (CPS) cases.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Maggie’s Place: New Beginnings for Homeless Pregnant Women
Maggie's Place provides safe housing and a nurturing community for homeless pregnant women, empowering them to thrive throughout their lifetime.
Read MoreCutting-Edge Practice
Center of Excellence for Perinatal Substance Use – Hospital Certification
The Center of Excellence for Perinatal Substance Use (COE) program empowers hospitals to provide effective, nonjudgmental care for birthing women and infants affected by substance use, improving outcomes through updated practices, system-wide changes, and resources for compassionate, stigma-free treatment.
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Families in Recovery
The Families in Recovery program is a community-based intervention that supports families and strengthens parenting skills during recovery from substance use disorder.
Read MoreBest Practice
BRIGHT Intervention (Building Resilience through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together)
BRIGHT is a dyadic attachment-focused therapeutic parenting intervention for caregivers with substance use disorders and their young children birth to age six.
Read MoreThis project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U01MC00001 Partnership for State Title V MCH Leadership Community Cooperative Agreement ($1,696,335). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.