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Providers & Teens Communicating for Health: Replicating PATCH Across Wisconsin
Angela Gelatt, M.P.H., C.H.E.S. Site Coordinator Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH) Coulee Region, Wisconsin Caitlyn is a 16-year-old girl who goes to a clinic with her mother for an annual school physical. In preparation for her appointment,...
From the President: What My Daughter Teaches Me about Equity
Cate Wilcox President, The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs Maternal and Child Health Manager, Title V Director, State of Oregon I am a white, heterosexual, cisgender woman. I have a good, stable job. I have affordable, stable housing. I have...
A View from Washington: Spotlight on MCH Champion Robin Kelly
Amy Haddad Director of Policy and Government Affairs The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs In this edition of Pulse focused on equity, we are excited to feature U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), who has established herself as a leader in...
Considering Health Equity for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families
Maura Leahy Program Associate, Child and Adolescent Health The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Rose Cutting Aiming for Acceptance For children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD), inequities...
How Well-Child Visits Can Advance Health Equity
Opportunities From Bright Futures' Guidelines and Tools Jane Bassewitz, M.A., American Academy of Pediatrics Lauren Geary, M.P.H., American Academy of Pediatric Kathy Janies, American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is committed...
A Jarring Health Equity Conversation Shifts Our Thinking
MCH Teams Go Home Changed by Health Equity Experience Kristina Wint, et al. Program Manager, Women's Health The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs When I recently joined a meeting of the Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation...
Fenced Out: Reflections on How Youth Engagement Tipped the Power Balance for LGBT People in New York
Jennie Blakney Director of Communications STARR (Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform) Sometimes you sense change when it is happening. You feel a balancing of the power scales in the atmosphere. That balance doesn't last; it always seems to shift back,...
It Takes A Village
Combining Data, Community, and Culture to Address Birth Outcome Disparities in Utah's Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Communities Brittney Okada, M.P.H., C.H.E.S. Health Equity Specialist Utah Department of Health Dulce Diez, M.P.H., M.C.H.E.S. Director, Office of...
Health Equity for CYSHCN: What Does it Mean for Title V?
And What are the Implications for MCH Leaders? Paige Bussanich Senior Program Manage, CYSHCN The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs Kate Taft Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Health The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs...
Medicaid Expansion Offers Opportunities for Improving Maternal and Child Health
Adam Searing, JD, MPH Associate Professor of the Practice Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Donna Cohen Ross Consultant on Medicaid and Early Childhood Policy Substantial new research shows that the adoption of Medicaid expansion under the...
MCH Agencies Have Key Role in State Response to PFAS Health Impacts
Alyson Northrup Government Affairs Specialist The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs Human exposure to elevated levels of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a growing public health concern with unique implications for maternal and...
Centering Community-Developed, Community-Led Social Change in Your Journey for Perinatal Health Equity
Jessica Huey, MPH, MSW, IBCLC, CD(DONA) Program Manager, Infant Health The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs As more and more maternal and child health (MCH) professionals strive to advance equity in perinatal health through programmatic and...
Innovative Strategies to Address Equity in Child & Adolescent Health
The Role of Arts & the Theory of Hope Child and Adolescent Health Team The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs At a time when the maternal and child health field is admirably focused on how to address equity, it's enlightening to hear...
A Mom, a Sick Boy, and a Search for Work-Life Balance
Caroline Stampfel Program Director The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs "Mommy, I don't feel good." Those five words strike fear into the heart of every mother. My sons, ages 6 and 4, have uttered those words so many times it's hard to...
Youth and Adults, Better Together
What young people got and gave by joining AMCHP's Annual Conference Carol Harvey State Adolescent Health Coordinator Texas Department of State Health Services Dottie Carmichael Principal Investigator Texas A&M University The Texas Youth Action Network...
