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Global Health as Gender Equality
By Bejanchong Foretia, MPH; Program Analyst AMCHP: Women’s and Infant Health Team, Global Health Workgroup Setting the Stage for Gender Equity: The Beijing Platform for Action In Beijing 1995, a unanimous vote was taken to adopt the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)....
Health Equity sessions at Family Voices Leadership Conference
By Ashlee Richey, Program Manager for Communications Bev Baker, Associate Director and Co-Director of Leadership in Family Professional Partnerships (LFPP) at Family Voices Family Voices is a national network of family-led organizations and friends of children...
Peer Support as a Pandemic Response Tool
By Alice Wertheimer and Michelle Crawford Introduction In early Spring 2020, the Family Engagement Team of The National MCH Workforce Development Center initiated a six-month peer learning program for Title V Family Leaders from each of the seven state teams...
State Public-Private Partnerships
An Avenue for Cost Savings through Nonprofit Charitable Assistance Programs Nathan Thomson, State Government Affairs, Patients Services, Inc. (PSI) We are living in an era of where safety net systems are increasingly strained and state health budgets are...
Quality Improvement to Support the Transition from Pediatric to Young Adult Health Care
Experiences of the Oregon Children with Medical Complexity CoIIN Team The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Advance Care for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC), which is funded through HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, is a...
Heal the Mother, Heal the Family
A Doula’s Role in Supporting Pregnant People with Substance Use Disorder Jessica Cohen, MSW, AMCHP Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation Team The experience of giving birth may not look the same across continents and countries, but globally we share an...
Bright Futures
Tools and Resources for Advancing Child and Adolescent Health Through Collaboration with Families and Communities Haily Stillabower, MPH, American Academy of Pediatrics Kathy Janies, American Academy of Pediatrics Jane Bassewitz, MA, American Academy of Pediatrics...
Lessons Learned from 2020
How the Affordable Care Act Can Advance Health Equity in Times of National Crisis Atyya Chaudhry, MPP, AMCHP Senior Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation, Region VII Liaison The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated longstanding racial and ethnic...
Increased Awareness of Midwifery and Home Birth Options in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Meshawn Tarver, MPH, HBCE, CHC, Doula, Senior Program Manager for Maternal and Child Health Lisa Richardson, PhD, Chief Impact Officer, Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the dynamics of U.S. health care as we know it. Hospitals were...
Bold Voices from the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Field
The Urgency of Accompliceship to Advance Racial Justice Grace Guerrero Ramirez, MSPH, AMCHP Program Manager, Workforce Development and Capacity Building Assisted by Ben Kaufman, MSW, AMCHP Associate Director, Workforce Development and Capacity Building This...
Using the National Standards as a Framework for Partnering with Others
Augusta Bilbro Director, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program, Mississippi Department of Health - augusta.bilbro@msdh.ms.gov Marsha Stepensky Program Analyst, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, AMCHP - mstepensky@amchp.org Paige...
Meeting Substance Use and Mental Health Needs
Meeting the Substance Use and Mental Health Needs of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Populations during COVID-19: Local and State Health Department Solutions Adelaide Appiah, MPH, NACCHO Jessica Cohen AMCHP Program Analyst, Health Systems Transformation Emily...
Establishing Health Equity through Partnership and Policy
Dr. Timika Anderson-Reeves, Director of Maternal Child Health & Women’s Health Community Integration and Westside Healthy Start, Project Director, PhD, MSW Community-led programs and organizations that focus on addressing the social drivers of health...
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Season 2021
Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment Season 2021: Educating the Public about their Health Insurance Options Atyya Chaudhry, AMCHP Senior Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation Sara Cariano, Virginia Poverty Law Center, Enroll Virginia In 2018, prior to...
2018 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Data Release
Kristina Wint, AMCHP Program Manager, Women & Infant Health Early this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the release of 2018 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Developed in 1987, the system aims...
