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Community-Centered Hospitals Initiative (CCHI)
The Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI) aims to address the stark and persistent disparities in the health outcomes of mothers, birthing people, and infants by strengthening collaboration and power-sharing between communities and hospitals.
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Maternal Health Action & Resource Center (MHARC)
The newly established Maternal Health Action & Resource Center (MHARC) will provide capacity building assistance (CBA), training, and technical assistance (TTA) to State MHI and other HRSA MCHB award recipients. This center will broadly share and disseminate information about evidence-based strategies and guidance with the purpose of enhancing and strengthening recipients’ ability to improve maternal health outcomes and reduce the significant disparities faced by certain populations.
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Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project
Healthy Start is a community-based federal program seeking to eliminate disparities in infant mortality and perinatal outcomes by working to improve systems of community care in communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average.
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Enriching ECHO (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes) cohorts with High-risk Pregnancies and Children with Disabilities
The goal of the ECHO Program is to understand the effects of a broad range of early environmental influences on child health and development. ECHO aims to enhance the health of children and adolescents through research that may help inform healthcare practices, programs, and policies and create a culture that helps teams of child health researchers work together to achieve the best results. The Enriching ECHO with Disabilities cohort seeks to advance disability inclusivity in ECHO research. NICHQ supports data collection and clinical research management for three clinical sites directly enrolling participants into the ECHO study.
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Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care
The purpose of the FELSC program is to enhance engagement of families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and individuals with lived experience, within the systems that serve them. FELSC includes two projects: 1) providing national family engagement leadership to support maternal and child health programs that serve CYSHCN and 2) providing TA to Family to Family Health Information Centers.
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Equity Systems Continuum
In response to the impact of systemic racism and other forms of oppression on maternal and child health outcomes, this project aims to create tools for equitable change within both organizations and systems.
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Data Roadmap for Racial Equity Advancement in Maternal and Child Health (DREAM)
ASTHO, funded by the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, led the DREAM Learning Community to build state maternal and child health programs’ capacity to address racial inequities using the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Racial Equity Data Roadmap. In its second phase, DREAM 2.0 engaged state Title V programs to apply the Roadmap to National Performance Measures, tailoring capacity-building activities based on state assessments co-developed with NICHQ, which also conducted a mixed methods formative evaluation to guide ASTHO’s efforts.
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UHC Catalyst Initiative: Infant Health Equity
By convening and coordinating the complementary initiatives of Healthy Start and UHC’s Catalyst Center, this project will seek to demonstrate that aligning this work and leveraging resources can identify opportunities to accelerate progress toward equity by successfully identifying and addressing social needs among Healthy Start participants and increasing utilization of services.
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Quality Improvement Community of Learning
In partnership with ACOG’s Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM), NICHQ has developed a Quality Improvement Community of Learning (COL) to strengthen and support knowledge and understanding of Quality Improvement (QI) methodology.
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National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
NICHQ works to enhance the coordination and communication of perinatal quality collaboratives across the nation, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes for mothers and newborns.