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 against a rubric 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.
Emerging Practice
Healthy Teeth Happy Babies
The Healthy Teeth Happy Babies campaign aims to educate new and expecting parents in metro Denver about the connection between parent/baby dental health and motivate preventive behavior change, especially in high-risk (low-income/Hispanic) populations.
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The HealthConnect One Community-Based Doula Program
The Community-Based Doula Program provides support to young families during pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period.
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PASOs Health Connections
The PASOs Health Connections model trains Community Health Workers to work closely with members of Latino households to serve as a bridge between these families and the resources they need, bringing families’ voices forward to speak to the inequities that challenge them, and delivering information to families in a culturally appropriate way.
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Texas Children’s Hospital Healthcare Transition Planning Tool
The Texas Children’s Hospital Healthcare Transition Planning Tool is an assessment and education tool designed to facilitate health care transition planning during a clinic visit in order to prepare adolescents/young adults with special health care needs and their families to transition to adult-based care.
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Florida Newborn Screening Results-Online Access System
The goal of the Florida Newborn Screening Results-Online Access System is to get newborn screening results into the hands of the primary care physician by providing easy online access to these results.
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The Ohio Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review: The Use of Simulation Training to Prepare for Obstetric Emergencies
This project sought to reduce pregnancy-related maternal deaths by implementing a series of simulation trainings for medical and nursing staff working primarily within low-resource birthing centers in Ohio.
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Parents as Detailers for Learn the Signs. Act Early.
Parents as Detailers for Learn the Signs. Act Early. uses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Learn The Signs. Act Early" materials to train parents of children with disabilities to conduct brief educational “detailing” sessions in primary care settings.
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Count the Kicks
Count the Kicks is an evidence-based stillbirth prevention campaign that teaches expectant parents the method for and importance of tracking their baby’s movement in the third trimester of pregnancy, with the goal of lowering the country’s stillbirth rate and saving babies across the nation.
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Reducing the Risk of SIDS and Other Sleep-related Infant Deaths through the Design and Deployment of Free Educational Apps for Mobile Phones
Reducing the Risk of SIDS and Other Sleep-related Infant Deaths through the Design and Deployment of Free Educational Apps for Mobile Phones was created by the SIDS Center of New Jersey and includes SIDS Info and Baby Be Well,® which enhance provider, parental, family, and community knowledge of and virtual access to safe infant sleep and other risk lowering information, with the former app adding English and Spanish voice-over to its bilingual text and graphics.
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Oregon Youth Transition Program
Oregon’s Youth Transition Program is a comprehensive transition program for youth with disabilities to prepare them for employment or career related post secondary education or training.
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Young Parent-Centered Case Management
The Massachusetts Pregnant and Parenting Teen Initiative's young parent-centered case management model is a two-generation model providing case management to expectant and parenting adolescents using a positive youth development approach that builds on participants' strengths. The program goal is to increase life opportunities and enhance family stability among young families through supporting educational attainment and employment; improving access to health services; supporting child development; and promoting healthy relationships.
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Oregon Care COOrdinatioN Program (CaCoon)
Oregon Care COOrdinatioN Program (CaCoon) is a community-based care coordination program for children and youth with special health care needs that helps families navigate barriers and links them to supportive services.
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.