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.
Cutting-Edge Practice
4 What’s Next
4 What’s Next aims to foster wellness and build mental health resiliency skills in high school students. To accomplish this, we formed a collaboration between CT Department of Public Health (DPH), CT School Based Health Clinics (SBHC), and the Jordan Porco Foundation (JPF), to implement JPF’s 4 What’s Next psychological resiliency program in several high schools through the School Based Health Centers
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Pharmacist Provision of Preconception Care Via Medication Therapy Management
Pharmacist Provision of Preconception Care Via Medication Therapy Management was created to give more women in Ohio enrolled in Medicaid increased access to preconception care services and to provide them with information regarding folic acid intake, immunizations, and teratogenic medication use. Community pharmacists across the state provided this preconception education and counseling through the medication therapy management framework.
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It Takes A Village: Giving Our Babies the Best Chance
It Takes a Village (ITAV): Giving our babies the best chance is a community education and engagement series to raises awareness and educate Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in Utah about maternal and infant health in the context of Pacific Islander cultural beliefs and practices.
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“One Tiny Reason to Quit” Smoking Cessation Campaign
"One Tiny Reason to Quit" Smoking Cessation Campaign is a Social Marketing campaign that uses face-to-face outreach and multiple media channels to prompt pregnant African American smokers to call 1-800-QUITNOW. This campaign has been shown to increase quitline calls from all pregnant women.
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Welcome Family
Welcome Family offers a universal nurse home visit and follow-up phone call to Massachusetts mothers with newborns, regardless of age, income, number of children, or other criteria. The goal is to improve maternal and infant health outcomes and improve coordination of health and social services by providing an entry point into a system of care for all families with newborns.
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VCHIP – Youth Health Improvement Initiative
The Youth Health Improvement Initiative provides adolescent content expertise and works collaboratively with other youth and adolescent focused work to improve adolescent well care visit rates and coach medical homes to provide high quality preventive services to youth and young adults.
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Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program
The BABY & ME - Tobacco Free Program is a smoking cessation program tailored to the pregnant population that utilizes motivational interviewing techniques, biochemical testing, and incentives (in the form of vouchers for diapers and baby wipes) to help women who struggle with tobacco addiction to quit using while pregnant and then maintain abstinence after delivery so that birth outcomes can be improved, and exposure to second and thirdhand smoke in the home environment can be reduced by maintaining cessation after baby is born.
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Innovative Approaches: Community Systems Building Grants for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
The purpose of the Innovative Approaches (IA) initiative is threefold: (1) to thoroughly examine the community system of care for CYSHCN; (2) to facilitate community identification of sustainable system changes and promising practices; and (3) to coordinate the implementation of these practices with agencies, providers, and families in the community.
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1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative
The 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative is a free and voluntary program that increases the number of connections for children with developmental concerns to needed resources and intervention services by: - Supporting primary care provider use of developmental screening and surveillance tools. - Connecting children with needs identified by their primary care provider to community resources and services.
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Family Foundations
Family Foundations is a transition to parenthood program for couples and coparents that has been shown in several randomized trials to reduce adverse birth outcomes, parent mental health problems, and family conflict and violence and promote long-term child emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes.
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Pathways Community HUB Institute Model® (PCHI® Model)
The Pathways Community HUB Institute® (PCHI®) Model helps communities build a transformative and sustainable community-based care coordination network. The PCHI Model provides the infrastructure to track risk factors from identification through mitigation and link payment directly to outcomes. The PCHI Model is a quality improvement framework for community to build their own robust network of community-based care coordination in partnership with local stakeholders to align resources and achieve positive outcomes. The PCHI Model has been developed, evaluated, and scaled to many diverse communities over thirty years. It has been proven to effectively reduce costs while improving health and social outcomes for community members most at risk. It is a transformative and dramatic change from traditional care coordination, because PCHI puts the ownership of the process with communities instead of health care systems.
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Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait Consumer Education Initiative – New York
The March of Dimes Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait® (HBWW) program is a community-based initiative to decrease preventable premature birth.
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.