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For Family Leaders, The Impact of Networking Is “Unforgettable”
Susan Colburn State Parent Consultant, Children's Rehabilitation Service, Montgomery, Alabama Vera Spinks Local Parent Consultant, Children's Rehabilitation Service, Tuscaloosa, Alabama While everyone in maternal and child health values opportunities to network with...
From the CEO
Lori Tremmel Freeman, BS, MBA Chief Executive Officer, AMCHP Wow. I mean WOW! What a fabulous Annual Conference we had in Kansas City, Missouri, in early March! I readily admit I am completely biased. There's so much planning and so many decisions, countless planning...
From the President
Michael Warren President of the Board of Directors, AMCHP Greetings, AMCHP colleagues and friends! Thanks to all of you who were able to join us last month in Kansas City for our 2017 Annual Conference. With registration approaching 900, this was by far our largest...
Uzazi Village: A Model for Decreasing Perinatal Health Inequities with Sister Doulas
Christina Ratleff Senior Program Manager, Women's and Infant Health; AMCHP Sherry Payne Executive Director, Uzazi Village Infant mortality and birth outcomes are considered important indicators of a community's well-being1. Although the U.S. spends significantly more...
Addressing the Zika Virus: The Texas Example
Rachel Jew, MPA Title V CSHCN Director Manager, CSHCN Systems Development Group Title V Maternal and Child Health Texas Department of State Health Services The 2017 AMCHP Conference brought together state and federal MCH leaders to discuss the response to Zika. This...
Reimagining Maternal and Child Health in the US
Ideas Worth Spreading Megan Canady, MSW, MSPH Research Specialist, UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health Sara Miller, MPH Program Associate, Health Systems Transformation; AMCHP "What if…?" This was the question that cultivated curiosity and inspired motivational...
Updating the National Newborn Screening Contingency Plan
Perspectives from Advisory Committee Members at the 2017 AMCHP Conference Cori Floyd, Program Analyst, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs; AMCHP Nearly all of the 4 million infants born in the U.S. each year are screened by state newborn screening (NBS)...
Health Equity in Workforce and Leadership Development
Nisa Hussain Program Associate, Workforce and Leadership Development; AMCHP A day before the official kickoff of the Annual Conference, nearly 60 health professionals gathered at the conference site to attend the Leadership Lab Launch Meeting. Since 2015, AMCHP has...
Health Systems Transformation: Evolving for Changing Times
Stacy Collins, Atyya Chaudhry, Emily Eckert, Sara Miller and Elliane Yashar Health Systems Transformation Team, AMCHP As we start the new year, this AMCHP team has a note-worthy announcement. In January, the AMCHP Health Reform Implementation (HRI) team formally...
Advancing Equity and the Power of Multidisciplinary Teams
Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, Andria Cornell, Christina Ratleff, Michelle Eglovitch, Nadia Laniyan Women's and Infant Health Team, AMCHP AMCHP's Women's and Infant Health (WIH) team carries out the organization's mission by increasing the capacity of Title V programs and...
Child & Adolescent Health: Reflections on a Year of Collaboration and Improvement and a Look Ahead
Kate Taft, Cori Floyd and Iliana White Child and Adolescent Health Team, AMCHP The past year has been a successful one for the Child and Adolescent Health team as we addressed emerging and existing needs of members related to adolescent and youth adult health, child...
Workforce and Leadership Development: Building MCH Capacity
Ki'Yonna Jones and Nisa Hussein Workforce and Leadership Development Team, AMCHP Leadership Lab: The Leadership Lab is structured to allow Title V staff from across the workforce (family leaders, new Title V and MCH directors, CYSHCN directors, Next Generation MCH...
A View from Washington
Brent Ewig Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs Greetings from our nation's capital! After an intense campaign season, the new president has taken office, and he and his allies in Congress are beginning work that could have major implications for maternal...
Family Engagement: A Cross-Cutting Strategy
Michelle Jarvis Family Engagement and Leadership Development Specialist, AMCHP 2016 was a great year for family engagement at AMCHP! We started the year by reimagining the role of our family leader on staff to emphasize that family engagement is cross-cutting. This...
Informing MCH Public Health Practice through Data, Assessment and Evidence-Based Practice
Cheryl Clark, Krista Granger, Jennifer Farfalla, Lynda Krisowaty and Charlotte Cleveland Epidemiology and Evaluation Team, AMCHP Data and information assist with descriptive measures of health and health-related services and can be used to demonstrate the impacts of...
