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 along four dimensions of Evidence, Equity, Relevance, and Impact 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
Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative: Faith-based MCH Promotion
The Faith-based Initiative of the Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative focuses on building relations in community with faith-based organizations of all religions to build capacity within structure of ministerial and mission work to promotion positive maternal and infant health.
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Becoming a Mom® Prenatal Education Program, Implemented through the Kansas Perinatal Community Collaborative Model
Becoming a Mom® (BaM) / Comenzando bien® (Cb) is a prenatal education program created by the March of Dimes, delivered through a community collaborative model in Kansas to improve knowledge, promote healthy behaviors, and enhance birth outcomes, particularly for pregnant persons at highest risk of adverse outcomes.
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Mothers on the Rise
Mothers on the Rise is an individualized, coordinated system of care to provide instrumental, emotional, and resource connection support for mothers and their babies transitioning from the Indiana Women's Prison Nursery Unit into community.
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Promises of Parenting Program
The Promises of Parenting Program improves the maternal-infant relational health of incarcerated mothers and their co-residing children residing on the Officer Breann Leath Memorial Maternal-Child Health Unit at the Indiana Women’s Prison by providing evidence-based parenting education and support.
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Preg-Out Program
Preg-Out seeks to address the recent spike in congenital syphilis by utilizing an opt-out system of rapid-response syphilis screening at any point of pregnancy care, particularly in emergency departments which often have a higher proportion of underserved populations.
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Bringing Adolescent Well- Visits to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services in a partnership with the University of North Dakota Family Medicine Center are bringing Adolescent Well-Visits to the middle and high schools on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
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PA Safe Sleep Program
The PA Safe Sleep Program trains and supports nurse Subject Matter Experts to implement an evidence-based multi-media program to educate nurses, support staff, and patients/families on the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for infant safe sleep at birthing and children's hospitals across the state of Pennsylvania.
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TRACK Trails
Innovative Approaches of Henderson County NC collaborates with families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) and other community stakeholders to evaluate local TRACK Trails for accessibility. This starting point will help improve the trails, increase outdoor activity and recreation, and enhance the physical and mental wellbeing of CYSHCN.
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Near Peer Hiring Toolkit
The near peer hiring toolkit provides a comprehensive guide to hiring young adults close in age to youth served by your agency, improving relationships, strategies, and overall impact of youth-facing programs.
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Arizona Health Start
The Arizona Health Start Program (HSP) mission is “to educate, support and advocate for families at risk by promoting optimal use of community-based family health care services and education services through the use of community health workers (CHWs) who live in and reflect the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of the community they serve.”
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Jackson Safer Childbirth Experience
The Jackson Safer Childbirth Experience (JSCE) was established with the hopes of improving maternal health outcomes and improving quality of care throughout pregnancy.
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Parents as Collaborative Leaders: Improving Outcomes for Children with Disabilities
Parents as Collaborative Leaders: Improving Outcomes for Children with Disabilities is a practice focused on building the capacity of parents and direct caregivers to become leaders that advocate for systems change and positive outcomes for children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSHCN) using a nationally recognized, research-based curriculum.
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.