Administration
on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) - Ensures that individuals
with developmental disabilities and their families have access to
culturally competent services, supports, and other assistance and
opportunities that promotes independence, productivity, and integration
and inclusion into the community.
Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - AHRQ is the health services
research arm of the u.s. department of health and human services (hhs),
complementing the biomedical research mission of its sister agency,
the national institutes of health.
Health Services Research Projects (HSRProj) - HSRProj provides information about ongoing health services research projects sponsored by leading Federal agencies and private foundations. Users can retrieve records on the projects AHRQ currently funds by browsing or searching on the sponsoring agency listings for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - This Center is recognized
as the lead federal agency for Health Promotion. Prevention, and Education
activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United
States
HRSA Bureau of Health
Professions (BHPr) - Programs help to assure access to quality
health care professionals in all geographic areas and to all segments
of society, by increasing the diversity of health professionals and
through early intervention to expose students to MCH professions.
Site contains information about loan repayment, and resources for
trainees.
National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - Conducts laboratory,
clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiological,
developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain
the health of MCH populations
State and Local MCH Partners
Association of Maternal
and Child Health Programs (AMCHP, Not a government web site) -
This association of is the national organization representing state
public health leaders and others working to improve the MCH community.
AMCHP approaches its work from a systems perspective that emphasizes
the interrelationships between individuals, families and communities.
CITYMATCH (Not a government
web site) - CityMatCH is a freestanding national membership organization
of city and county health departments' maternal and child health (MCH)
programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United
States.
Associations
Association
of Schools of Public Health (ASPH, not a government web site)
- The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) is the only national
organization representing the deans, faculty and students of the accredited
member schools of public health and other programs seeking accreditation
as schools of public health.
What is Public Health?
(A website launched by ASPH) (Not a Government Website)
- This website gives an overview of public health and emphasizes the relevance of
public health to everyone's lives. It features several 30-second Flash animations
about public health as well as a number of resources for learning more about public
health, such as a quiz and an interactive exploration game. Comments and suggestions
may be directed to info@asph.org.
Association
of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH, not a government
web site) - Offers an interdisciplinary forum through which MCH
faculty from schools of public health and other institutions of higher
learning can share the knowledge, ideas, and skills essential to educating
students, advancing MCH research, and applying research results to
MCH policies, programs, and services.
Collaboration
Essentials - Collaboration Essentials is an educational
program designed to promote collaboration between pediatric
and child psychiatry residents. The website contains a
3-hour curriculum, based on the collaborative office rounds
case discussion teaching method, which is freely available
to faculty from both specialties. The curriculum includes
three cases that are designed to promote a collaborative
discussion in order to maximize the care of the child.
Sponsors: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy
of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Children's Hospital
Boston
MCH
Library - The Maternal and Child Health Library at
Georgetown University provides the MCH community with
accurate and timely information on a broad range of topics.
Materials include the weekly newsletter MCH Alert, resource
guides, full text publications, databases, and links to
quality MCH sites. The knowledge paths can be found at this site.
Sponsor: National Center for Education in Maternal and
Child Health, Georgetown University (Not a Government
Web Site)
MCH
Net-Link Plus - Enhances the capacity of the Maternal
and Child Health community to effectively utilize information
technologies to address the health needs of women, youth
and children.
Sponsor: Institute for Child Health Policy (Not a Government
Web Site), HRSA/MCHB
MCHB
Webcasts and Conferences - A website for supporting
communication and collaboration between the state and
the federal maternal and child health professionals who
serve the nation’s mothers, families and children.
National
Center for Cultural Competence - The National Center
for Cultural Competence has developed a series of curricula
enhancement modules to incorporate principles and practices
of cultural and linguistic competence into all aspects
of their leadership training. New users can register to
access the modules at http://www.nccccurricula.info/.
Sponsor: National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human Development (Not
a Government Web Site)
LEND
Links Newsletter - A monthly summary of LEND Program
Highlights. Newsletter submissions from programs in other
training categories are welcome.
Sponsor: AUCD, HRSA/MCHB
