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 along four dimensions of Evidence, Equity, Relevance, and Impact 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
One Key Question®
One Key Question® is a transformative tool for health and social service providers that starts the conversation about if, when, and under what circumstances women want to get pregnant and have a child.
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Rhode Island Health Equity Zones
Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zone initiative is an innovative, community‐led, place‐based model that brings people in a defined geographic area together to create healthy places for people to live, learn, work, and play.
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Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) Training
The Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN) intervention aims to enhance the “attunement” between providers and parents and strengthen the provider-parent relationship. FAN’s ultimate goal is strengthening the provider-parent relationship, resulting in parents who are attuned to their children and ready to try new ways of relating to them.
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Youth Advisory Council
The Youth Advisory Council is comprised of youth and young adults who have demonstrated leadership through their involvement with Dare to Dream or other statewide youth initiatives and have an interest in helping their peers who want to improve their school and communities. The Council provides feedback and collaborates with the Office of Special Needs on a variety of activities, programs, policies, and resources that affect the health, wellness, and transitional needs of youth in the State.
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Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process (ACE-AP)
The goal of the Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process is to improve services for adolescent patients at clinical practices across the country. The ACE-AP is a facilitated, comprehensive self-assessment tool and improvement process that includes customized resources, recommendations, technical assistance, and implementation plans using Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) improvement cycles.
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Adolescent Champion Model
The Adolescent Champion Model is a multi-faceted intervention to address a health center’s environment, policies, and practices to ensure that all aspects of a visit to the health center are youth-centered.
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Expanding Early Identification Efforts through Electronic Development and Social Emotional Screening
Ten community-level, public screening agencies, including education, public health, primary care and Head Start programs, participated in a sixteen-month electronic screening pilot opportunity from August 2015 through December 2016. This pilot of Expanding Early Identification Efforts through Electronic Development and Social Emotional Screening aimed to consolidate screening forms for a variety of agencies into a centralized electronic screening platform that could be used by agencies that provide screening to families of young children.
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Virtual Dental Home Project
The Virtual Dental Home System of Care (VDH) is a community-based oral health delivery system, developed in California, in which people receive dental diagnostic, preventive, and early intervention services in non-clinical community settings such as schools, WIC, Head Start sites, low-income community centers, and nursing homes.
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Graduated Driver License Education
The Graduated Driver License Education program aimed to increase parental and teen knowledge of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) driving restrictions and subsequently lead to better enforcement and compliance with GDL laws.
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Developing, Testing, and Scaling Coordinated Intake & Referral
The primary objective of Developing, Testing, and Scaling Coordinated Intake & Referral initiative was to develop a community-driven approach using the state’s universal prenatal and infant screens, that could be adapted and scaled statewide through local Healthy Start Coalitions in Florida.
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Rhode Island Department of Health Internship Program for Youth with Special Healthcare Needs
The Rhode Island Department of Health Internship Program for Youth with Special Healthcare Needs supports the successful transition of youth with special healthcare needs to all aspects of adulthood (health care, education, work, independence) specifically focusing on transition to employment through the facilitation of an Internship Program within the department of health.
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Perinatal Substance Use Bundle
The Indiana Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative drafted a perinatal substance use practice bundle to establish a uniform process of identification and intervention from screening at the first prenatal visit to discharge planning and follow-up for both the mother and the baby.
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.