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Spotlight: The Ohio Maternal & Child Health Approach to Supporting Adolescent & Young Adult Mental Health
Ohio is one of five state teams participating in the Association of Maternal & Child Health Program’s Adolescent & Young Adult (AYA) Behavioral Health learning collaborative, which aims to improve access to depression screenings with linkage to high quality...
Apply for AMCHP Innovation Hub’s Replication Project
What is the Replication Project? As part of its work to promote and encourage the use of best practices, AMCHP’s Innovation Hub launches its Replication Project every year. The Replication Project is a yearly opportunity for organizations focused on maternal and child...
Episode 11 – Community-Led Solutions for Change: The Story of Colorado’s Birth Equity Bill Package
Guest Speakers: Laura Powis (Moderator), Program Manager for Evidence-Based Policy & Practice at AMCHP Indra Lusero, Birth Justice Advocate and the Founder and Director of The Elephant Circle Demetra (Mimi) Seriki, Midwife at A Mothers Choice...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience
AMCHP’s Collection of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Stories Public health emergencies have and will continue to reveal the critical importance of planning for and responding to the needs of women, children, and families, including those with...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience – Cassandra Sines
A Family with Multiple Complex Medical Needs Survives a Pandemic By Cassandra Sines LISTEN TO THIS STORY In March of 2020, when the first news of the virus started surfacing, we really didn’t know what to expect. My husband and I just watched and waited for...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience – Louisiana Department of Health
Newborn Screening Follow-Up in a Public Health Emergency –Hurricane Ida By Louisiana Department of Health (Cheryl Harris, Jantz Malbrue, Ngoc Huynh) Listen to this story This is a testimonial of when staff from Louisiana’s Department of Health, Office of Public...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience – Nicole LeBlanc
In this series of video clips from a structured interview, an autistic woman describes the personal impact of both practical and mental health challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. She provides specific recommendations to decision-makers at all levels of...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience – LaShay Canady
In this video, a public health professional shares details of her emergency preparedness plan to assure the safety of two family members who require full care. With the “red suitcase” packed and ready, she explains her strategy to support her family’s evacuation in...
Building Resilience from Lived Experience – Micklina Kenyi
In this video, an immigrant from South Sudan shares the story of her family’s evacuation from a wildfire that wiped out entire neighborhoods in her suburb west of Denver. She shares her sense of panic as her historical trauma was triggered as she struggled to...
Apply for the Emergency Preparedness and Response Action Learning Collaborative
Are you interested in building your jurisdiction’s capacity to meet the complex needs of women, children, and families in planning for and responding to public health emergencies? The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is inviting applications...
Behind the Scenes of AMCHP 2023: Meet Julie Traylor
Julie Traylor, AMCHP's Annual Conference Committee Chair, is the Director of Strategic Development for the Division of Family Health and Wellness at the Tennessee Department of Health, where she focuses on developing staff and partnerships. She came to the department...
AMCHP Encourages Students and Early Career Professionals to Submit a Proposal for the 2023 Annual Conference
The call for proposals for the 2023 AMCHP Annual Conference is now open, and students and early career professionals (SECP) are invited to submit a proposal to share their completed (or in progress!) work under any of the 13 subject-focused tracks. Given this year’s...
Episode 10 – Queering Perinatal Mental Health
Guest Speakers: Leo Andreas (he/him), Dad of a two-year-old Jenna "JB" Brown (they/he), Full-Spectrum Community Doula and Educator at Love Over Fear Wellness & Birth In this episode, Leo Andreas and Jenna "JB" Brown join us to explore the unique perinatal mental...
AMCHP Invites Community Members, Community-Based Organizations, and Tribal Entities Representatives to Submit a Proposal for AMCHP 2023
The call for proposals for the 2023 AMCHP Annual Conference is now open, and community members, community-based organizations (CBOs), and tribal entities representatives are invited to submit a proposal to share their work and ideas under any of the 13 subject-focused...
Exploring the Conference Theme: Cultivating Diverse Leaders in Maternal and Child Health
The planning for the AMCHP 2023 Annual Conference is in full swing! Our conference planning committee has been working to incorporate feedback from our 2022 edition of the conference to make next year’s experience as productive and as memorable as possible. The...