Pulse is an AMCHP bi-monthly newsletter featuring a curated selection of insightful, story-driven articles and perspectives centered on critical topics in maternal and child health (MCH). Each edition showcases a collection of contributions authored by AMCHP’s subject matter experts, partners, and collaborators, including families and individuals with lived experience with the challenges AMCHP endeavors to solve.
This newsletter includes a special segment called Pulse Plus, which features articles on various MCH issues and topics relevant to our members and the broader MCH community.
Are you an AMCHP member or partner interested in collaborating on an article for Pulse? Please e-mail us at communications@amchp.org.
Integrating Behavioral Health into Pediatric Primary Care: Early Lessons
Atyya Chaudhry, MPP Senior Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation AMCHP Joni Hollis RN, MSN, CNL Director Program Planning & Development Unit, Office of Children's Medical Services Managed Care Plan Florida Department of Health Kelli Stannard, BSN Director...
Lead-ing New Partnerships in Child and Adolescent Health
Kate Taft Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Health AMCHP Lead poisoning (unfortunately) continues to be a hot topic in maternal and child health, but there are reasons for optimism. This year AMCHP will kick off the Maternal and Child Environmental Health...
Disability Rights and Sexual Health
Tanisha Clarke, MPH Senior Program Manager, Disability and Public Health Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) "We are denying people with disabilities a fundamental part of being human." Sexual and reproductive health are important parts of overall...
From the CEO
Lori Freeman Chief Operating Officer, AMCHP I've heard a lot of talk recently at small group meetings about not only the value of sharing best practices, but the equal value of sharing worst practices. This is not necessarily a new idea. In 2009, at the height of the...
The Need for a Coordinated Response to Address the Opioid Epidemic
Attya Chaudhry Senior Program Manager, Health Systems Transformation Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs The opioid crisis continues to appear in headlines across the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 91 Americans die...
A View From Washington
Amy Haddad Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs AMCHP Following the November 2016 presidential election, AMCHP decided to hold an all-member call to, as we said then, "share initial non-partisan analysis of what we might expect regarding MCH budget...
A Look Back at Youth Engagement
Iliana White Senior Program Manager, Adolescent Health AMCHP Although maternal and child health (MCH) has a place for adolescents as a population domain, youth voices or perspectives are usually missing when it comes to programming design, implementation, or...
Ask the Alumni
We asked alumni: Given AMCHP's goal on alignment, what did you find most challenging about alignment in your work in Title V/MCH? Were there examples where you successfully addressed alignment within your agency or across other agencies? Here's what they said: It is...
Innovation Station Spotlight
This is a new column to highlight emerging, cutting-edge, and best practices from AMCHP's Innovation Station related to the theme of this Pulse, alignment of resources and collaboration. PowerMeA2Z PowerMeA2Z is an innovative and interactive social marketing campaign...
States Explore Text App to Reach Low-Income Pregnant Women
Text4baby is a service that sends free, personalized text messages to expecting mothers three times a week, including nutrition and safe sleep tips, doctor visit and appointment reminders, breastfeeding advice, health insurance information, and urgent health alerts....
A Look Back at the National MCH Workforce Development Center
Nisa Hussain Program Analyst, Workforce and Leadership Development AMCHP Cindy San Miguel Assistant Director, Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center - Cohort 2017 Looking back, 2017 was another successful year for the National...
Housing Stability: Medicaid’s Potential for Addressing a Powerful Determinant of Health
Stacy Collins Associate Director, Health Systems Transformation AMCHP Of the many social determinants of health, housing stability is among the most basic and influential. Health care experts increasingly recognize the vital role that access to safe, stable, and...
From the President of the Board
Michael Warren President of the Board of Directors Recently I read a tongue-in-cheek article that talked about the various buzzwords commonly used in organizations. It included terms like "granular," "robust," "circle back," "value proposition," "move the needle," and...
Thinking Outside the Toybox
Leveraging Non-Traditional Partnerships in MCH Anna Watson Program Analyst, Child and Adolescent Health Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs As professionals in maternal and child health (MCH), we spend a great deal of time considering potential...
The Importance of Family-Professional Partnerships
Working with Your Title V Maternal Child Health Bureau By Amy A. Holbert, LISW-CP Mother to two beautiful sons Executive Director, Family Connection of South Carolina Family Connection of South Carolina is the family-to-family health information center and the parent...
