MCH Training Strategic Planning Workgroups provide training grantees with an opportunity to directly impact policies and procedures to guide the implementation of the Training Program and assist with the achievement of the MCH Training National Strategic Plan goals and objectives. Distance Learning Performance Measures
Workgroup PurposeDescription coming soon. Workgroup ActivitiesDescription coming soon. Faculty and Trainee DiversityWorkgroup PurposeIdentify, assess, promote and support strategies and activities that: - contribute to the development and maintenance of diverse training program trainees and faculty and
- encourage graduates of training programs to seek employment in unserved or underserved communities.
This will include consideration of how cultural competency relates to diversity and how grantees and the MCHB can effectively measure and monitor program efforts related to diversity. Related Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives Goal 2, Objectives 1 and 2: By 2010, increase the number of MCH training programs that have increased the diversity of their faculty (1) and the diversity of their trainee classes (2). Family-Centered and Family-Directed Practice
Workgroup Purpose- Achieve high quality health care delivery systems
- Through the involvement of the full range of professionals and communities who assure the health and well-being of children or youth and their families by
- Advancing respectful family-professional partnerships
- Honoring the strengths, cultures, traditions, and expertise that everyone brings to these relationships.
Workgroup Activities
- Identify and analyze utility of available family-centered and family directed practices curricula and materials
- Develop indicators of comprehensive instruction in family-centered and family-directed practices
- Develop indicators for field placements that lead to cultural and linguistic competency and understanding of family-centered and family-directed practices
- Identify and assess current continuing education modules and teaching strategies targeted to faculty
- Develop guidelines for Family Advisory Boards and place on Training Program Web site
Interdisciplinary Training and PracticeWorkgroup PurposeIdentify, assess, facilitate and support the organization and conduct of comprehensive, high-quality interdisciplinary practices to promote positive MCH outcomes in the training programs and in community-related activities. Workgroup Activities
- Develop MCH Training Program specific definition of “interdisciplinary practice”
- Identify the evidence needed for programs to demonstrate effective interdisciplinary training
- Develop draft indicators to measure interdisciplinary training
- Draft recommendations to MCHB regarding reporting requirements for the new measures
Reporting and MonitoringWorkgroup PurposeCreate strategies and measures to assess and monitor progress of MCH training grantees in achievement of overall training program goals and individual program objectives. Workplan Focus
- Development of improved reporting mechanisms to capture information on:
- The extent to which graduates of the Training Programs work in underrepresented areas
- The diversity of current trainees
- Determining indicators of evidence that MCH training projects have translated research into policy, practice or training.
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