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
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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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.
Read MoreEmerging 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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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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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.
Read MoreCutting-Edge Practice
Family Centered Shared Care Planning Assessment Tool
The Family-Centered Shared Care Planning Assessment (FCSCPA) tool is a self-scoring electronic assessment that prompts Shared Care Planning teams to facilitate quality improvement and reflect upon their values and processes.
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Recommendation Tools to Align Fatality Review Programs to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
Evaluate the effectiveness of Michigan Recommendation Tools to Align Fatality Review Programs to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes to identify themes and themes for action generated by local Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) teams and align them with Michigan Maternal Mortality Surveillance program (MMMS) recommendations.
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Health Emergency Ready Oregon (HERO) Kids Registry
The HERO Kids Registry is the first-of-its-kind statewide registry to address emergency medical information gaps.
Read MoreCutting-Edge Practice
Building Capacity for Food Systems and Health Systems to Partner
Food pantries embedded within local communities are essential to the economic well-being of individuals and families whose circumstances make it difficult to access food as evidenced by frequency of individual visits to food pantries
Read MoreEmerging Practice
EACH Mom and Baby Collaborative
The EACH Collaborative is a partnership whose goal is to support the expansion and replication of perinatal community health worker (CHW) models in South Carolina through information sharing, technical support, funding opportunities and, perinatal specialty training for Community Health Workers.
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Virtual Autism Diagnostic Clinic
Through a unique partnership with Service Coordination units and hospital systems, Easterseals Eastern Pennsylvania uses telehealth to identify autism spectrum disorder in toddlers. We provide early detection and easy access in the child's natural setting and no cost to the family.
Read MorePromising Practice
STAT-MD: Early Identification of ASD for Pediatric Health Providers
The STAT-MD model is designed to teach enhanced ASD screening and diagnostic procedures to pediatric providers serving young children.
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.