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Bringing Together Training Programs, Title V, and Families for Leadership Development University of North Carolina MCH Leadership Consortium Kathleen Rounds. Collaborative Best Practice Models in MCH Education and Service Building Blocks 4 Promising Practice Models
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Bringing Together Training Programs, Title V, and Families for Leadership DevelopmentUniversity of North Carolina MCH Leadership ConsortiumKathleen Rounds Collaborative Best Practice Models in MCH Education and Service Building Blocks 4 Promising Practice Models MCH Federal/State Partnership Meeting October 16, 2007 Alexandria, Virginia
Consortium Background • Site visit by Maternal and Child Health Bureau to programs at UNC (Fall 2000) • Five MCHB funded training programs came together to create Consortium • Nutrition / School of Public Health • Pediatric Dentistry • Social Work • MCH Department / School of Public Health • LEND / Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning / School of Medicine
Consortium Goals • Develop and implement interdisciplinary leadership training for trainees and faculty • Share faculty and program expertise and resources for training, research, and community-based initiatives • Address funding issues pertinent to sustaining the Consortium • Serve as a catalyst and coordinating body for increasing family participation and cultural competence within our UNC MCH training programs and our intensive leadership model • Foster a shared understanding of maternal and child health, anchored in a public health, population-based perspective • Evaluate the impact of the Consortium’s interdisciplinary training
Consortium Activities • Sponsorship of a year long intensive interdisciplinary MCH leadership training for fellows and faculty • Development of a cultural competence training • Development of training and collaboration with the NC Title V program in family-centered practices • Monthly meetings among Consortium members (faculty/Title V staff) to discuss MCH leadership development and research issues of mutual interest • Develop opportunities for ongoing trainee, faculty/staff, Title V interaction in joint initiatives
Academic / Title V Symmetry • The vision and goals that under-grid the MCH Training Programs reflect those of Title V • Both State Title V & MCH Training programs have National Performance Measures (NPM) • NPM #07 (Family Participation) • NPM #11 (Cultural Competence) • NPM #59 (Collaboration with Title V)
Collaboration with Title V • Training programs all had ongoing relationships with Title V • Began Consortium – Title V collaboration with focus on developing cultural competence training: • Jointly organized an initial training event • National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) workshop for Consortium faculty and students and Title V representatives (Spring, 2005)
Collaboration with Title V & the NC Family Council • 2006 Title V representative attended Consortium meetings • 2006-2007 ongoing meetings among Family Council, Title V, and Consortium to: • Discuss collaboration and involvement as members of Consortium • Re-design Cultural Competence Workshop • Design Family – Centered Workshop • Spring 2007 – implemented Family – Centered Workshop
UNC MCH Leadership Consortium Curriculum • Introductory Session:Consortium, MCHB, Title V • Leadership Assessment Intensive (started 2002) • Conflict Resolution Workshop (added 2003) • Facilitation Workshop (added 2004) • Cultural Competency Workshop (added 2005)* • UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Conference (added 2006) • Family – Centered Workshop (added 2007)* • Reflections on Leadership Development Session *NC Family Council & Title V involvement
Plans for Ongoing Development • Full participation of Family Council representatives in leadership training curriculum • Ongoing attendance by Consortium faculty & leadership trainee at Family Council meetings • Continuous improvement of training curriculum based on trainee feedback • “Effects of Interdisciplinary Training on MCH Professionals, Organizations, and Systems” 3 year evaluation study funded by MCHB http://www.sph.unc.edu/mch/unc_mch_leadership_consortium.html