Empowering Professionals Through Professional Development and Collaborative Networks
Welcome to our dedicated platform focused on enhancing maternal health service provision, policy development, and workforce development. MHERC and AMCHP are committed to advancing maternal health equity by establishing a robust network of professionals dedicated to this cause. Through a blend of asynchronous and synchronous learning modules, we offer comprehensive resources and training designed to enhance the skills and knowledge necessary to improve maternal health outcomes and address disparities in maternal health equity. Join us in our mission to create a future where maternal health services are equitable, effective, and accessible to all.
Below is a list of the courses and resources we have collected.
Please complete the registration form to choose which modules you would like to view.
Policy
AMCHP Policy Updates
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Government Affairs Team | Amani Echols | Past Congressional Briefing Event Notice
AMCHP in cooperation with Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), hosted a briefing on the current state of care for maternal and child health populations with sickle cell disease. The in-person educational congressional briefing was an opportunity for collaboration and engagement with key stakeholders, including members of Congress, and to learn valuable insights and information on sickle cell disease to inform federal, state, and local policy efforts.
Exploring MCH Policy and the Policy Process
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Cross-Team Effort
This module is part of a series that provides Title V professionals with the tools, knowledge, and capacity to effectively engage in policy development, implementation, evaluation, and advocacy to ensure that policies affecting maternal and child health populations are effective, equitable, and evidence-based.
Advancing Health Equity and Anti-Racism in MCH Policy
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Cross-Team Effort
This module is part of a series that provides Title V professionals with the tools, knowledge, and capacity to effectively engage in policy development, implementation, evaluation, and advocacy to ensure that policies affecting maternal and child health populations are effective, equitable, and evidence-based.
Health Equity
Systems Mapping Tools to Advance Birth Equity
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Jess Simon
These mapping tools are intended to accelerate the work of communities, coalitions, and funders in strategically assessing their efforts, identifying opportunities, and committing to specific actions to strengthen the birth equity ecosystem.
Decolonizing Data (2023 Graduate Student Epidemiology Program learning session)
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Aileen Duldulao, Ph.D., MSW | Oregon Health Authority
Decolonizing data is about reclaiming traditional data practices, this gives the necessary context to tell complete stories.
Resources/Tools
Innovation Hub Overview
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Evidence & Implementation Team
The MCH Innovations Database is a searchable repository of “what’s working” in the field that includes effective practices, programs, and strategies that are positively impacting MCH populations. Submissions to the database are assessed along a practice continuum and, if accepted, receive a designation of Cutting-Edge, Emerging, Promising, or Best Practice depending on the level of evidence demonstrating the practice’s impact, among other criteria.
Workforce Development
Leadership Lab 2023_2024 Cross-Cohort Sessions: MCH Competency – Teaching, Coaching, and Mentoring.
Leading with a Coach’s Mindset: How to Foster Peak Performance in Public Health (2024 Leadership Lab webinar) The Active Ingredients of Partnership and Collaboration (2023 Leadership Lab webinar)
Trauma-Informed Workplace Webinar
Applicable Topic/Goal: Strengthen public health capacity and workforce development by increasing availability of culturally appropriate CHAMPions training on maternal health. Integrate trained maternal CHAMPions into community-based education and the health care support network to increase access to support and information about maternal health and well-being for at-risk pregnant women. Conduct research on the efficacy of the maternal CHAMPions intervention on maternal health promotion
Opportunity to learn about various trauma-informed workplace frameworks and discuss practical considerations and steps needed to initiate their adoption.
Community Engagement
Community Defined Evidence
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Evidence and Implementation Team | Laura Powis
This learning module supports and uplifts the development and utilization of MCH evidence that centers people with lived experience. Module objectives are to
- Describe how evidence comes in many forms, including the perspectives of people with lived experience
- Understand the role of contextual, experiential, and research evidence in establishing the fit of a practice to meet a specific population need
- Explain how the development and use of community generated evidence can and should complement other forms of evidence
Journal Articles
Recap, Reflections, and Resources: Maternal and Child Health Journal Special Issue on Public Health Approaches to Perinatal Substance Use
ACMHP Program/ Program Representative: Health Systems Transformation Team | Jess Simon
In December 2023, AMCHP & Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) unveiled a groundbreaking Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Journal Special Issue: Public Health Approaches to Perinatal Substance Use. This MCH Journal special issue serves as a vital resource, presenting 21 open-access articles that delve into the latest research, programs, and policy initiatives surrounding perinatal substance use disorder (SUD).