Webinars

This webinar, hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), will illustrate the importance of striving for fair access to healthcare and family support; it's essential to acknowledge the historical and ongoing disparities faced by Black families.

These disparities result from past and current events, socio-economic challenges, and cultural influences. By engaging the community authentically, we can work towards reducing SUID rates, which involves raising awareness and providing education. In this effort, healthcare providers, community organizations, social service agencies, and other stakeholders can collaborate on initiatives to enhance infant health and decrease infant mortality rates.

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The Equity Exchange is a new, equity-focused virtual event, hosted by NICHQ’s Department of Health Equity Innovation. This series provides a unique space to exchange innovative ideas, learn and discuss emerging theories, and share resources and tools on topics related to equity in maternal and child health. Expect something different than your standard webinar, with more ways to interact and engage on our new platform. 

The weathering hypothesis states that chronic exposure to social and economic disadvantage leads to an accelerated decline in physical health outcomes and could partially explain racial disparities in a wide array of health conditions. In our commitment to creating a more equitable health system, we acknowledge the impacts of both navigating racist systems and working to dismantle them. In honor of National Minority Mental Health Month, join us for a conversation about equity fatigue and weathering, where we'll discuss strategies for maintaining momentum and engagement in equity initiatives.

The Equity Exchange is a new, equity-focused virtual event, hosted by NICHQ’s Department of Health Equity Innovation. This series provides a unique space to exchange innovative ideas, learn and discuss emerging theories, and share resources and tools on topics related to equity in maternal and child health. Expect something different than your standard webinar, with more ways to interact and engage on our new platform. 

Join us for a conversation about Reproductive Justice and Black Feminism in honor of Black Maternal Health Week 2024, and in recognition of this year's BMHW theme, “Our Bodies STILL Belong to Us: Reproductive Justice NOW!,” highlighting widespread restrictions on abortion care access coupled with rising cases of criminalization due to pregnancy loss that continue to widen the gaps of adverse maternal and birth outcomes in the U.S. 

This webinar will highlight the benefits of doula services and doulas' roles in improving birth outcomes, increased legislation of doula services through Medicaid, and the current landscape for doulas in the healthcare industry.

Attendees will learn strategies for improving doula-provider relationships and tips for better incorporating doula services in healthcare systems. Attendees will hear from certified doulas who will share the significant challenges they have experienced when providing services, and recommendations and strategies to improve.

The Equity Exchange is a new, equity-focused virtual event, hosted by NICHQ’s Department of Health Equity Innovation. This series provides a unique space to exchange innovative ideas, learn and discuss emerging theories, and share resources and tools on topics related to equity in maternal and child health. Expect something different than your standard webinar, with more ways to interact and engage on our new platform. 

Our first conversation focused on the “state of equity,” and the Equity Systems Continuum, an evidence-based framework for looking at racism in organizational systems.  

Significant racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities exist among sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) and breastfeeding practices in the U.S. Combining infant safe sleep (ISS) and breastfeeding promotion on the community level presents opportunities to address these racial/ethnic disparities and associated socioeconomic, cultural, and psychosocial influences.  

The National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS-IIN) hosted a series of listening sessions in spring 2021 to examine the phenomenon of community-level providers promoting breastfeeding and infant safe sleep in communities vulnerable to disparities.

This webinar will highlight findings from a recent NICHQ-led study, Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study published in BMC Public Health where researchers addressed two questions: (1) What are the areas that community-level organizations need support to serve their population’s needs around safe sleep and breastfeeding? (2) What tools or resources could assist them in improving their work promoting safe sleep and breastfeeding?  

Implications for safe sleep and breastfeeding policies and education will be discussed. Community partners will share their experiences leading and implementing activities.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC) coordinated by the National Institute for Children's Health Quality (NICHQ), and the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) recently hosted a webinar on implementing Plans of Safe Care (POSC) to support infants, parents, and caregivers affected by substance use disorder. This webinar supported the Biden-Harris Administration’s Drug Policy Priority to “explore, identify barriers, and establish policy to help pregnant people with substance use disorder (SUD) obtain prenatal care and addiction treatment without fear of child removal.”

The webinar highlighted Oklahoma’s collaborative approach to supporting infants and families affected by prenatal substance use, including the partnership with the Oklahoma Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative, the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and the Department of Human Services. Participants were introduced to state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives and the technical assistance resources available through NCSACW.

Watch the webinar recording to hear from national experts to learn more about:

• Oklahoma’s implementation of family care plans during the prenatal period to improve outcomes for families and prevent unnecessary child placement and to support these infants, families, and caregivers
• Oklahoma’s changes in health care, substance use disorder treatment, and child welfare systems that support collaborative practice
• How Oklahoma has aligned and integrated cross-system supports for substance-exposed infants

While sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and breastfeeding are public health issues across population groups, significant disparities exist across race, ethnicity, and geography. To center the lived experiences of communities, many MCH programs are shifting to community-driven work to promote safe sleep and breastfeeding, including the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network (NAPPSS-IIN).

This webinar will discuss how the NAPPSS-IIN programmatic and evaluation pursuits shifted to center community voices within participatory quality improvement (QI). Community partners will share their experiences leading and implementing QI activities. Implications for MCH projects and community-based research will be discussed.

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 Americans causing acute pain crises, dangerous infections, and other serious health problems that can damage every organ in the body. That makes consistent and regular appointments vital for people living with SCD.

People living with SCD and their families and family caregivers miss critical healthcare appointments for a variety of reasons. According to a 2019 national study, a majority of patients reported missing a clinic appointment in the previous 12 months. One key strategy NICHQ has learned from patients, caregivers, and providers in interviews and webinars is that addressing the barriers to appointment attendance works better when providers partner with community-based organizations to communicate with patients.

This webinar – the third in its series – focuses on developing a strong relationship between SCD clinics and the CBOs supporting people living with SCD.  Forging shared provider/CBO strategies provides improved messages and supports to patients and families who may be struggling with barriers that health care systems don’t realize.

Webinar Objectives:

• Identify three of the common reasons for missed appointments for people living with SCD and their families
• Learn how providers and SCD CBOs can work together to address appointment challenges for people living with SCD
• Identify resources to forge or strengthen relationship between CBO and clinic
• Learn resources for providers, CBOs, patients and caregivers to improve conversations to resolve appointment barriers.

Audience: 

• All SCD stakeholders: advocates and community-based organizations, health professionals, and service providers, people living with SCD and their families
• Webinar content also will be useful to providers and CBOs that support any patient or caregivers who face barriers to healthcare appointment attendance.

Early childhood systems exist to improve outcomes for children and families, but it can be a challenge to tell the story of why our system-building efforts matter. To help system builders and stakeholders identify ways their system is working well, as well as areas for improvement, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) developed the Early Childhood System Performance Assessment Toolkit in partnership with members of its Early Childhood Learning and Innovation Network for Communities (EC-LINC). 

During the past year, in partnership with National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (ECCS CoIIN) Teams, CSSP has updated and expanded the Toolkit to improve its alignment with the ECCS CoIIN logic model. This webinar will provide an overview of the Toolkit, including two new and two revised measures, and ways communities can use measures from the Toolkit to improve their system’s performance.

Webinar Objectives:

• Participants will be able to articulate how an early childhood system contributes to better outcomes for young children and their families
• Participants will improve their understanding of the concept of system performance
• Participants will be able to identify measures from the Early Childhood System Performance Assessment Toolkit that they could use in their own systems