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
Planning for Meaningful Family Involvement Worksheet
The Planning for Meaningful Family Involvement Worksheet helps Title V agencies and other policy bodies in thinking through steps to recruit, orient, and retain family representatives in order to achieve a more authentic partnership.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Healing, Empowering, Actively Recovering Together (HEART)
The Healing, Empowering, Actively Recovering Together (HEART) program is a pilot designed to improve outcomes for pregnant/parenting women with substance use disorder (SUD) and their children, who often have neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The HEART program integrated and co-located parenting classes, community resources, and peer support services within the one setting.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Standard of Compensation for Youth and Family Partners on Research Teams
The Standard of Compensation for Youth and Family Partners on Research Teams outlines standards for fairly compensating research partners and includes a comprehensive glossary of research terms. This standard recognizes that youth, families, and patients who work on research studies as co-investigators or research partners should be paid for their work and lived experience.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Children’s Dental Services
Children’s Dental Services is a non-profit dental safety net, providing a full range of culturally focused dental services and serving as Minnesota's primary school-based and largest single provider of dental care to over 37,000 low-income children and families each year. We utilize an array of modalities including culturally targeted and translated curricula, Dental Therapists, Collaborative Practice Dental Hygienists, telehealth, silver diamine fluoride, and portable dental delivery systems.
Read MorePromising Practice
Cultivating Connections through Coordinated Referral Networks
The Cultivating Connections through Coordinated Referral Networks uses technology paired with a collaborative implementation approach to promote cross-system referral coordination through the development of community-led networks that improve connections to needed services for families.
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Partners in Care: Together for Kids
Partners in Care: Together for Kids (PIC:TFK) is the first publicly-financed health program for children in the nation that utilizes a pediatric palliative care model which integrates palliative with curative or life-prolonging therapies.
Read MoreBest Practice
The Health-e-Access Telemedicine Program
The Health-E-Access Program, a telehealth network, is designed to increase access to healthcare for children, improve the economic stability of inner city families, and improve early education for underserved children.
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Environmental Health Training for Nursing Students
This Environmental Health Training for Nursing Students model is a low-cost method that reaches future home visiting and community health nurses in the state and equips them with the ability to recognize environmental health hazards and to provide families with referrals to necessary programs.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Baby Blossoms Collaborative (BBC) Preconception Health Program- Now and Beyond
Baby Blossoms Collaborative (BBC) Preconception Health Program - Now and Beyond program educated women about the importance of a healthy lifestyle and the value of planning a pregnancy process known as the Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) to understand the contribution of key components of fetal-infant mortality.
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Body and Soul: A Faith Based Health Improvement Initiative
Body and Soul: A Faith Based Health Improvement Initiative is a 12-week education and exercise program which consisted of weekly meetings with lectures, cooking, and physical activity to improve the health and well-being of overweight African American church members.
Read MoreEmerging Practice
Women Together for Health
Women Together for Health (WTFH) is a free, community-based program that addresses modifiable lifestyle behaviors to improve the health of women and their families.
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.