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.
Promising Practice
Got Transition’s Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition in Medicaid Managed Care
Got Transition's Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition in Medicaid Managed Care is a replicable pilot program that incorporated the evidence-driven Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition into a Medicaid managed care plan by customizing and integrating transition core elements within a Medicaid plan's existing care management processes.
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Pono Choices: A Culturally Responsive Teen Pregnancy and STI Prevention Program for Middle School Youth
Pono Choices is the first teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention curriculum developed exclusively for youth ages 11 to 13 in Hawai‘i. The curriculum is culturally responsive and introduces students to Hawaiian cultural terms, practices, and concepts that stress positive character development, including making “pono” choices.
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Early Intervention Parenting Partnerships (EIPP)
The Early Intervention Parenting Partnerships (EIPP) is a home visiting program for expectant parents and families with infants who are high need due to practical barriers (e.g., low financial resources, housing instability), emotional and/or behavioral health challenges (e.g., depression, substance use), or other stressors (e.g., immigration-related stress).
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Power Me A2Z Folic Acid Program
The Power Me A2Z folic acid education and distribution program educates women who can pregnant about the importance of folic acid consumption and distributes free multivitamins with 400 mcg folic acid to help prevent neural tube defects, regardless of their pregnancy plans, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, or geographic location in the state.
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Rapid Adolescent Prevention Screening (RAAPS)
The Rapid Adolescent Prevention Screening© (RAAPS) is a standardized, validated risk screening and health education solution embedded in digital empathy, developed to support professionals in reducing the risk factors impacting the health, well-being, and academic success of youth, and recognized by leading health organizations as an effective tool for time efficient and effect comprehensive youth risk screening.
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Alaska Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey (CUBS)
Alaska Childhood Understanding Behaviors Survey (CUBS) is an ongoing three year follow-up survey to the PRAMS survey. The CUBS program collects, analyzes, and disseminates population-based data about the health and early childhood experiences of young children in Alaska.
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Michigan Infant Safe Sleep Statewide Hospital Training Program
Michigan’s Infant Safe Sleep Program wanted to ensure that nurses in birth hospitals were knowledgeable of the 2016 American Academy of Pediatric safe sleep recommendations and how to have effective conversations with families about safe sleep. The program began providing in-person infant safe sleep training and resources specifically to nurses caring for infants within hospitals (such as mother/baby and labor and delivery units). This practice has transitioned to virtual trainings during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The Empower Program
The Empower Program, created by the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) in 2010, provides a 50% reduction in child care licensing fees, in trade for voluntary implementation of ten health and nutrition standards.
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Urban Lotus Project: Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth
Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth is an innovative practice which provides a unique opportunity for adolescents, especially for youth who are disproportionately affected and those with special health care needs, to participate in physical activity utilizing a trauma-informed approach.
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Washington Statewide Leadership Initiative Coalition
The Washington Statewide Leadership Initiative (WSLI) is a coalition that serves as a hub for family organizations, nonprofits, and professionals who provide peer support, family navigation, leadership development, and advocacy training to families of CYSHCN.
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Missouri Milestones Matter
The Missouri Milestones Matter (MMM) Program leverages the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Learn the Signs. Act Early. (LTSAE) health campaign materials to embed developmental monitoring into early childhood services across Missouri.
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Getting to ‘Y’: Youth Bring Meaning to their Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Getting to ‘Y’: Youth Bring Meaning to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey is a strengths-based, positive youth development initiative, whereby YOUTH are empowered to take the lead in interpreting their local youth health data and engaging with peers and community to improve youth health and wellness.
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.