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
Arizona Health Start
The Arizona Health Start Program (HSP) mission is “to educate, support and advocate for families at risk by promoting optimal use of community-based family health care services and education services through the use of community health workers (CHWs) who live in and reflect the ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of the community they serve.”
Read MoreCutting-Edge Practice
Jackson Safer Childbirth Experience
The Jackson Safer Childbirth Experience (JSCE) was established with the hopes of improving maternal health outcomes and improving quality of care throughout pregnancy.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Parents as Collaborative Leaders: Improving Outcomes for Children with Disabilities
Parents as Collaborative Leaders: Improving Outcomes for Children with Disabilities is a practice focused on building the capacity of parents and direct caregivers to become leaders that advocate for systems change and positive outcomes for children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSHCN) using a nationally recognized, research-based curriculum.
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Safe Infant Sleep Shelter Program
The Safe Infant Sleep Shelter Program helps to address safe infant sleep for families at a higher risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) due to social determinants of health.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Connecting Families to Supports through Service Assessments
The Rhode Island Birth Defects Program (Connecting Families to Supports through Service Assessments) connects families of children with certain conditions to medical, educational, developmental, and family support services by conducting service assessments to assure children and their families are receiving appropriate services in a timely manner.
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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.
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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.
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.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
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 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.