With the connection between maternal mortality and infant mortality, it is important for Healthy Start grantees to join efforts to support translating data into population-based action, through engaging with their state maternal mortality review committees (MMRCs). MMRCs craft recommendations deliberating the causes, critical factors, and preventability of individual maternal deaths.
This webinar will provide an overview of the purpose and goals of maternal mortality review committees, their purpose and how Healthy Start grantees can get involved. Julie Zaharatos, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will provide the MMRC overview and Ms. Lo Berry, President and CEO with REACHUP, a Healthy Start Grantee in Florida, will share her experience joining the Florida MMRC and how she’s leveraged this engagement to support her Healthy Start work and beyond. Resources and references will be shared.
Recommended Audience: All Healthy Start Grantees are encouraged to attend
- We recommend that grantees who are currently on their MMRC attend and consider sharing their experience and examples
- We also recommend grantees that are engaged with their Fetal Infant Mortality Review Committees attend
- We also recommend grantees who have not yet contacted their State about joining their MMRC attend
Webinar Materials:
Data Utilization Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
In this module, nationally recognized family leader and speaker, Ms. Eileen Forlenza addresses four critical strategies for increasing meaningful partnerships between Families and MCH Professionals. Anyone interested in issues around Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) will find this 30-minute leadership lesson incredibly insightful and helpful.
Learning Objectives:
- Professional Partnerships
- Create a shared vision
- Strengthen your foundation
- Explore innovation
- Demonstrate strong leadership
Community and Organizational Partnerships Group Processes/Facilitation
This course will cover the fundamental concepts of collaborative leadership and clarify the multiple layers of influence that impact health. Participants will receive an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to effectively guide diverse groups of people to find solutions to complex problems that affect them all. Collaborative leadership is an evidence-based field that has proven particularly effective in public health planning where multiple stakeholders have an interest. Course topics include the nature of successful collaboration, characteristics of a collaborative leader and a discussion of the collaborative leadership practices. An overview of a multiple-sector approach to public health provides a context for the collaborative leadership discussions.
Learning Objectives:
- Determine when and when not to use collaboration 2. Compare five levels of relationships: networking, coordinating, cooperating, collaborating, and competing
- Identify three reasons people and organizations collaborate
- Identify some of the challenges to collaborative leadership
- Explain the context for collaboration
- Define the nature of successful collaboration
- Explain the meaning and nature of collaborative leadership
- Compare leadership styles
- Differentiate between “leadership” and “leader”
- Define the six practices of collaborative leadership Identify different ways to build collaborative leadership skills
Community and Organizational Partnerships Group Processes/Facilitation Leadership
This downloadable file is intended as an introduction to CBPR for people who are in the early stages of using or considering using CBPR.
Community and Organizational Partnerships
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series brings leadership concepts to life in an MCH context, allowing you to conduct your own training sessions, within your own time frames and in your own settings.
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series is a set of training modules designed for use in small groups. Each module offers a mix of presentation and exploration in different learning formats:
• Video “mini-lecture”
• Interactive group discussion questions and exercises
• Case study with discussion prompts and hands-on exercises
• Video clips from interviews with MCH leaders
• Individual self-reflection exercises
• Individual leadership development planning worksheet
Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Cultural Competence Group Processes/Facilitation Health Equity Health Literacy Leadership Social Determinants of Health Strategic Planning
Three ways in which Maternal and Child Health researchers and practitioners are using data and the life course approach were discussed.
Data Utilization Life Course Model
This keynote address will focus on how leaders can bring together diverse groups of people to tackle shared problems and achieve the common good.
Learning Objectives:
- Rationale for the importance of collaboration
- Advantages of collaboration
- Challenges of collaboration
- Appreciate the role of organizational structure and culture
- Model for collaboration
Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Group Processes/Facilitation Leadership
Overview of the need for project management, role of project management, phases of project management, project management elements, project team, project contract. Explains the value of project management – that it helps the project move more quickly while the work is being done – “go slow to go fast”. The program discusses the need for a project plan and the different types of project plans that can be used.
Learning Objectives:
1. Project content, logistics, deliverables
2. Self management
3. Coordination and Communication with others
Community and Organizational Partnerships Group Processes/Facilitation Project Scope
