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The MCH Leadership Skills Training Institute offers two different curricula. Each curriculum is offered once or twice during each project year (October 1 - September 30). The two curricula are Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Programs (PIE), and Systems. The PIE institute focuses on leadership issues related to internal agency/program functions, while the Systems institute focuses on issues related to assuring the well being of MCH/CSHCN populations while working with other agencies.

Learning objectives for each curriculum follow. To see the actual meeting agenda for each curriculum, click on the title above the objectives


Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Programs

Learning Objectives:

  • How the core public health functions of assessment and assurance apply to Title V programs.
  • Identification, definition and use of health/performance measures to identify, intervene in, and monitor progress toward improvement of targeted health problems.
  • The benefits, elements and implementation of strategic planning.
  • Application of the knowledge of the history of maternal and child health in the USA to current MCH challenges.
  • The design and implementation of evaluation strategies for Title V programs.
  • The role, design and utilization of budgets and contracts in program planning, development and implementation.
  • The use of consultation and technical assistance in Title V programs.
  • The relationship between organizational behavior and organizational change.
  • Communication strategies for dealing with difficult inter-personal and
    organizational situations.
  • The use of needs assessment and needs-based planning in Title V programs
    and their relation to core public health functions.
  • The process of preparing and presenting testimony to affect policy

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Systems

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to describe and participate more effectively in efforts related to:

  • Identification of the effects of changes in health-care financing on MCH.
  • Defining the role of MCH in the development of systems.
  • The design and implementation of collaborative systems.
  • Building capacity to monitor systems development.
  • Successful grant writing in support of a strategic plan.
  • The application of systems approaches and strategic thinking in addressing health care needs.
  • Understanding, providing and encouraging leadership.
  • Designing strategies to influence systems negotiations and develop integrative solutions to systems-level conflict.
  • Advocacy in achieving MCH goals as a public program administrator.
  • The assessment of and response to risks and benefits of strategies to assure accessible and high quality health care based on forecasting trends in the organizational/political environment.
  • The development of a framework, within a systems context, for the future of MCH programs.

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