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Meeting State MCH Needs: A Summary of State Priorities and Performance Measures

The Child Health Program of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under contract with the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, reviewed changes in State and jurisdictional priority needs and how performance is measured in meeting those needs. Three aspects of the needs assessment and priority setting process required by each MCH grantee were examined:

State Needs Assessments for the year 2005 were reviewed to examine priority needs identified by each State and compare them to priority needs identified in the 2000 Needs Assessment,
Review of State documents to identify other needs described by States but not included in the State’s required list of seven to ten priority needs, and
Review of State Performance Measures to examine how they link to State priority needs and the sources of data that are being used by States in measuring achievement in meeting priority needs.

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Meeting State MCH Needs: A Summary of State Priorities and Performance Measures

Review of the Title V 5-Year Needs Assessment Process

This study aims to (1) provide a comprehensive assessment of how States implemented their Title V Needs Assessments in 2005 and (2) identify promising approaches among the States and jurisdictions that other Title V agencies can learn from and adapt in their own ongoing Needs Assessment and program planning efforts and for the 2010 Needs Assessment for Title V. Health Systems Research, Inc. (HSR), under a contract with MCHB, used a two-phase approach to conduct this study. In the first phase of the study, researchers examined the 2005 Title V Needs Assessment documents of 58 States and jurisdictions. The text of these documents was reviewed and abstracted to describe the variation in approaches used in the assessment process and identify most common and creative strategies Title V agencies used. The second phase of the study involved a more indepth examination of the process in selected States.

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Review of the Title V 5-Year Needs Assessment Process in the States and Jurisdictions
Appendix: Sample Needs Assessment Process Tools from the States

Promising Approaches to the Title V Needs Assessment

The Division of State and Community Health held 4 workshops on the 5 year needs assessment, required for the Title V Block Grant. The workshops provided States with the opportunity to exchange ideas and develop steps in doing their needs assessment. The workshop also provided participants with the skills to develop and write state performance measures. In order to view the full proceedings of these workshops go to:

http://128.248.232.90/archives/mchb/needs2004/

The Division of State and Community Health presented a "Skills Building" session at the recent Annual Meeting of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP). Four of the items discussed at the workshop are presented below: (1) a Word document prepared by Health Systems Research (HSR) entitled, "Preliminary Findings of Promising Approaches to the Title V Needs Assessment", (2) a PowerPoint presentation of the main findings of the HSR Study, (3) a PowerPoint presentation of the major changes made to the on-line Application for the State MCH Block Grant, and (4) PowerPoint presentation of the Analysis of Teen Suicide Performance Data by Priscilla Guild, Project Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC.

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MCHB 2005 Grantee List
Promising Approaces to the Title V Needs Assessment: Preliminary Findings
Review of Title V Needs Assessments: Promising Approaches

Missouri Bright Futures Spring Workshop 2006 - Promoting Resiliency In Children, Families and Communities: Connecting Schools, Public Health and Mental Health

School, public health and mental health experts developed this workshop - the second of two - to look at new ways of collaborating on issues that affect the mental health of Missouri's children. The workshop focused on hands-on tools to promote resilient children, strong families and healthy communities.

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Promoting Resiliency In Children, Families and Communities: Connecting Schools, Public Health and Mental Health
Workshop Materials and Exercises
Promoting Resiliency In Children, Families and Communities - Presentations

MCHB: Mental Health - Promoting a New Paragidm

AMCHP 2004 addressed the mental health needs of women, children and families in the United States. Speakers examined a new paradigm for improving mental health through public health practice. Sessions examined mental health across the lifespan, from the emotional development of infants to women's mental health and wellness to youth suicide. Participants also learned about emerging trends and best practices from a broad range of maternal and child health issues.

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The Web-Based Title V Block Grant Application - Overview of the System and the 2005 Enhancements

"Best Practices" for Preventing Adolescent Suicide

The Injury Prevention component of the Child and Adolescent Health Program addresses statewide injury prevention activities, including violence prevention and suicide. The Child and Adolescent Health Program represents New Jersey at the Northeast Injury Prevention Network, a bi-regional effort established to prevent adolescent suicide and injury. The planning team of this Network produced a bi-regional Suicide Data Book in June of 2000, which includes matrix spreadsheets showing injury/suicide data for multiple age groups. The group is in the process of producing a bi-regional Poison Data Book, which will include information and matrix spreadsheets pertaining to unintentional or undetermined intent poisonings and exposures to poison.

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"Best Practices" for Preventing Adolescent Suicide: What Can We Learn from New Jersey?

Facilitating Public Comment on the Title V MCH Block Grant

Title V of the Social Security Act, the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (MCH Block Grant), provides states with significant flexibility in use of federal funds. Balanced against this flexibility are mechanisms to promote accountability, including state specific needs assessments, plans, reports and performance measures. States evidence their compliance with these and other Title V requirements through annual submission of a combined application and annual report due July 15.

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Facilitating Public Comment on the Title V MCH Block Grant: A Report on States' FY 2005 Practices

Five Years of Experience with CAST-5

Capacity Assessment for State Title V (CAST-5) is a set of assessment and planning tools designed to assist state maternal and child health (MCH) programs in examining their organizational capacity to carry out the 10 MCH Essential Services.1 CAST-5 is an initiative of the Johns Hopkins University Women's and Children's Health Policy Center (WCHPC) and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). A Preliminary Edition of CAST-5 was first pilot tested in the summer of 2000 and published in early 2001. A revised Second Edition was released in February 2004.

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Five Years of Experience with Capacity Assessment for State Title V (CAST-5)
CAST-5 Planning Guide

Update on CSHCN SLAITS Survey

A recent MCH.COM webcast organized by the Division of State and Community Health (DSCH) focused on an update of the next Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) survey. This broadcast focused on an overview of the survey which featured presentations by Marcie Cynamon, Stephen Blumberg, Michael Kogan and Paul Newacheck. The first CSHCN Survey, conducted five years ago, used a telephone survey methodology known as State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS). Ms. Cynamon and Dr. Blumberg from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), provided an update on the developments and approach to the second CSHCN Survey scheduled to commence in 2005. The data from this survey provides each State with input to five of the National Performance Measures reported in the States Application/Annual Report.

The PowerPoint presentation contains a description of the methodology to collect the data, proposed changes, and an opportunity for States to have State specific measures, if they so choose. The entire webcast is available for viewing on the MCH webpage. This includes the presentation of all the presenters along with the Powerpoint program.

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The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Look Back and A Look Forward

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