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.
Best Practice
Massachusetts Partnership for Early Childhood Mental Health: LAUNCH/MYCHILD Model
LAUNCH/MYCHILD is an integrated behavioral health model that embeds an Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician and a Family Partner in pediatric primary care to provide early identification, brief intervention, and facilitated referrals to services and resources, in order to promote nurturing relationships, prevent concerning behaviors and reduce the families’ stressors.
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Incorporating the Social and Structural Determinants of Health in Colorado’s Title V Program
The Colorado MCH Program used a structured, data-informed and inclusive needs assessment process to incorporate a focus on addressing the social and structural determinants of health into Title V new priority selection for 2021-2025.
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Safe Sleep Diaper Bag Project
The Safe Sleep Diaper Bag Project includes education to caregivers on safe sleep guidelines, provides a diaper bag filled with materials that have safe sleep messages, as features a follow-up visit to determine any changes in the way caregivers practice safe sleep.
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Birth and Beyond California: Hospital Breastfeeding Quality Improvement and Staff Training Demonstration Project
The Birth and Beyond California: Hospital Breastfeeding Quality Improvement and Staff Training Demonstration Project provides women with the support and resources necessary to initiate and maintain exclusive breastfeeding starting at birth.
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Internatal Care Program (ICP)
The Internatal Care Program (ICP) provides clinical care, care coordination, and health education/promotion to women with poor birth outcomes.
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Partners In Pregnancy
Partners in Pregnancy provides pregnant women who are at an increased risk of dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications and their infants with the care they need to survive and grow up healthy. The program involves home visits and case management by CHIP nurses and Parent Educators, in combination with a medical home and regular nurse consultations provided by Optima Health.
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Quality Improvement in Maternity Care via Project ECHO
The telehealth Obstetric Safety Bundle sessions (formerly called Project ECHO sessions) seek to educate and encourage hospitals statewide to implement components of the evidence-based Maternal Safety Bundles. These were developed by the Council for Patient Safety in Women's Health Care and Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Heath (AIM) with the goal of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.
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Community Engagement Assessment Tool
This Community Engagement Assessment Tool outlines an annual process for local programs, that receive Title V funding, to assess their engagement with family, youth and community members, and provides a method to enhance their practice of engagement throughout the year.
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On-Demand Telesimulation in Maternal-Newborn Care and Clinical Lactation
Go beyond boring webinars! On-Demand Telesimulation is the first and only online program for live, clinical practice with pregnant or lactating patients and their newborns. Healthcare professionals who complete telesimulations receive oral and written feedback on their clinical performance relevant to lactation support and maternal-newborn care.
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MoMMA’s Voices Champions Training Center
MoMMA's Voices Champions Training Center offers training to patient family partners that provides a basis of understanding in order to be effective partners in change in maternal health outcomes.
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Reducing Breastfeeding Disparities in California through Lactation Accommodation Workgroup
The purpose of the “Reducing Breastfeeding Disparities in California through Lactation Accommodation Workgroup” is to collaborate to build capacity to support workplace lactation accommodation in California and reduce related equity disparities.
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Family Navigator Network
The Iowa Family Navigator Network (FNN) includes professionally trained staff members with lived experience as the parent or primary caregiver for a child with special health care needs. Family Navigators in the FNN provide family to family support, assisting parents or primary caregivers of CYSHCN with systems navigation, connecting them to community resources, and providing emotional support from the perspective of similar experiences. Members of the FNN are employed by the University of Iowa Division of Child and Community Health, which encompasses Child Health Specialty Clinics, Iowa’s Title V program for CYSHCN.
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.