MCH INNOVATIONS DATABASE

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.

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Cutting-Edge Practice

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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Cutting-Edge Practice

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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Best Practice

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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Cutting-Edge Practice

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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Emerging Practice

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.

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Cutting-Edge Practice

Safe Infant Sleep Shelter Program

The Safe Infant Sleep Shelter Program helps to address safe infant sleep for families at a higher risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) due to social determinants of health.

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Emerging Practice

Connecting Families to Supports through Service Assessments

The Rhode Island Birth Defects Program (Connecting Families to Supports through Service Assessments) connects families of children with certain conditions to medical, educational, developmental, and family support services by conducting service assessments to assure children and their families are receiving appropriate services in a timely manner.

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Cutting-Edge Practice

Medical Home Portal

The Medical Home Portal support professionals and families in working together to care and advocate for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) by providing reliable, practical, and evidence-based information, valuable local and national services and resources, and support for patient-centered practices using the medical home model.

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Emerging Practice

Champion Dyad Initiative

The Champion Dyad Initiative (CDI) is a quality improvement initiative led by SisterWeb that aims to ensure that birthing people of color receive fair and equitable treatment during their births and pregnancies by establishing a partnership with maternal care providers that act as “champions” for patients and doulas at their clinical sites and engage in bi-directional feedback with SisterWeb to better support doulas and families from Black and Latinx communities in San Francisco.

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Emerging Practice

Healthy Mom, Healthy Family: Incorporating Interconception Care Into Well-Child Visits

Healthy Mom, Healthy Family: Incorporating Interconception Care Into Well-Child Visits, based on the national IMPLICIT model, is a quality improvement project designed to impact maternal and infant health by incorporating maternal interconception care into well-child visits in pediatric and family medicine office settings by focusing on four critical maternal health areas: depression/anxiety, tobacco use, family planning, and multivitamin use.

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Emerging Practice

BirthMatters

BirthMatters reduces teen pregnancy through reproductive health education and empowers pregnant people to raise healthy families through doulas utilizing the community health worker model.

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Emerging Practice

The Embrace Project Study

The Embrace Project Study (Embrace) focused on addressing maternal mortality and morbidity and diabetes health disparities through mental health and self-care practices that supported cultural identity.

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This 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.